I just saw the movie "Enlighten Up". Netflix offered it to me after I watched the abmonination called "The Secret". I've been doing little bits of yoga lately so I thought I'd give it a go. I thought the movie only wasn't good, it wasn't finished.
The movie is about a dedicated Yogi named Kate who apparently felt like making a documentary about yoga. She finds an out of work journalist named Nick to give it a light, outsiders perspective. She films him going to a ton of yoga classes and they eventually go to India to spend some time with some of the worlds most venerated Gurus. The whole experience is lost on Nick and they never come up with any conclusion about why people do Yoga and what there was to gain.
Nick determined at the end that Yoga was exercise, not particularly good exercise, and the rest was craziness.
I could tell Kate was angry. There was something there, she just knew it. Her voice was heavy handed but muted. She asked Nick some probing questions, but she did it not understanding his journey and I think Nick threw up his defenses and refused to open his heart. How could he? Kate was breathing down his neck the whole time.
I also sensed some sexual tension. Kate was there, a woman. Nick was complaining about how he hasn't been alone with a woman for the whole experience. At one point he decides to go on a date, and Kate is defensive about it. At one point Nick talks to a respected yoga instructor and masseuse, telling him about how his life is about fulfilling his small self. He meant this in a way that he spends his life venturing ways to fulfill needs like eating, sleep, and sex. The yogi responds, "well, go fuck yourself". The instructor said that he should go do what he wants because at at the end of the day all the matters is his perspective. I think that means that its not about Kate's.
The website for the movie says that it was Kate's objective to prove that Yoga could change anyone. It certainly didn't feel like this was the thesis at the time. The only thing she managed to prove was that Nick was more loving with his mother whether he excepts yoga into his life or not. When the website said "... what they discovered is not what they expected", it translates to they broke up angry and conclusion-less, with Nick no longer performing yoga and Kate producing a weak documentary.
Regardless of what the website says, Nick seemed to be set out to prove that people did yoga to 'get' something, in this case, enlightenment. That is a very western perspective. He figured that yoga doesn't get you anything, and thats right. You don't win anything by doing yoga. He was trying to win Kates approval, but it just made him miss the point.
The movie is about a dedicated Yogi named Kate who apparently felt like making a documentary about yoga. She finds an out of work journalist named Nick to give it a light, outsiders perspective. She films him going to a ton of yoga classes and they eventually go to India to spend some time with some of the worlds most venerated Gurus. The whole experience is lost on Nick and they never come up with any conclusion about why people do Yoga and what there was to gain.
Nick determined at the end that Yoga was exercise, not particularly good exercise, and the rest was craziness.
I could tell Kate was angry. There was something there, she just knew it. Her voice was heavy handed but muted. She asked Nick some probing questions, but she did it not understanding his journey and I think Nick threw up his defenses and refused to open his heart. How could he? Kate was breathing down his neck the whole time.
I also sensed some sexual tension. Kate was there, a woman. Nick was complaining about how he hasn't been alone with a woman for the whole experience. At one point he decides to go on a date, and Kate is defensive about it. At one point Nick talks to a respected yoga instructor and masseuse, telling him about how his life is about fulfilling his small self. He meant this in a way that he spends his life venturing ways to fulfill needs like eating, sleep, and sex. The yogi responds, "well, go fuck yourself". The instructor said that he should go do what he wants because at at the end of the day all the matters is his perspective. I think that means that its not about Kate's.
The website for the movie says that it was Kate's objective to prove that Yoga could change anyone. It certainly didn't feel like this was the thesis at the time. The only thing she managed to prove was that Nick was more loving with his mother whether he excepts yoga into his life or not. When the website said "... what they discovered is not what they expected", it translates to they broke up angry and conclusion-less, with Nick no longer performing yoga and Kate producing a weak documentary.
Regardless of what the website says, Nick seemed to be set out to prove that people did yoga to 'get' something, in this case, enlightenment. That is a very western perspective. He figured that yoga doesn't get you anything, and thats right. You don't win anything by doing yoga. He was trying to win Kates approval, but it just made him miss the point.