Scenario:
Jaroslav DušekSamenvattingen(1)
Documentary filmmaker Olga Špátová filmed Jaroslav Dušek's successful theatrical presentation of Four Agreements, based on the bestseller of the same name, and creatively supplemented it with private film archives. Over nine years Dušek's play, inspired by the timeless Toltec wisdom of Don Miguel Ruiz's books, has taken more than 150,000 theatregoers on the path to personal freedom and happiness. Alan Vitouš, Pjér la Šé'z and Jaroslav Dušek perform with words, music, their bodies and their hearts. (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
(meer)Recensie (3)
Jarda Dušek and his one-man show on the theme of thinking about ourselves. It's got wit, it's got ideas, it's got humor and it's got pace. Unfortunately, the recording itself is very bland and certainly does not help the whole. Still, it's not hard m to remember some of the points he makes and stick to them in real life, even though up to now you have been educating yourself with the help of winged sentences in the style of: "Shoot!"
()
From the position of a capable actor and motivator, Jaroslav Dušek talks for two hours about the upbringing of children, relationships, personal goals and the state of the world in general. In his quest to provide some life guidance, he mixes universal life truths with Native American wisdoms and his own stories and opinions, and the whole thing is wrapped in an esoteric new age philosophy. Sometimes the film is funny and one can't but agree with many of its observations. However, the coincidence with which these simple ideas are vaguely connected, both to each other and to incoherent religious symbolism, turns the film into something between a lecture by a life coach, a reading from a psychological spelling book for beginners, or a church sermon. In addition, some fans of this performance (and therefore also the books) find themselves on the border of fanaticism and sectarian elitism, which is something I didn't know about. This is perfectly summed up by a comment on YouTube, where the author wonders how anyone can give it a thumbs down. Another user replies: “The thumbs down must have been from people whose consciousness is simply not at the level of those of us who watch it more than once."
()
Dušek is good, to the extent that he managed to present something as intimate, moralistic, and alternative in a way that is sufficiently entertaining. At times, I wondered if people were laughing just because they didn't know how else to react, and if they even understood what they were listening to at all. I'm not convinced they did. I would like to think that afterward, everyone left the movie theater and started behaving differently, realizing what they were doing wrong, but I doubt it. That doesn't change the fact that those agreements make sense. But there will only be a few people who accept them.
()