Learning #19: Review of Free Your Mind

Stunning Bluebird.  Photo credit:  Joy Heffernan, my sister.

I was all pumped up for some learning tonight.  Husbandman and I went to see Free Your Mind, a documentary about using meditation to change your brain.  It wasn't that great, honestly.  Here's our review.

L:  Did you learn anything?
Hm:  No.
L:  I don't think I did either.  Which is pretty weird for a documentary about neuroscience.
H:  It wasn't a documentary about neuroscience.
L:  Okay, what was it about?
H: It was about meditation and breathing techniques being used to calm stress.
L:  Yes, and yet, they were making the claim that our brains can be changed through meditation techniques.
H:  And yet they presented zero evidence to that effect.
L:  Okay, true that.  Hmmmm... Any redeeming factors to this film?
H:  The little kid was cute.
L:  He was my favorite part.  Do you believe that meditation could help you be a better husband?
H:  I'm going to go do the recycling.
L:  Okay, I'll help you.  Basically, if people want to see this, they should.
H:  Do you ever say they shouldn't?  When it's a zero?  I think you should.  Even if they want to, they shouldn't go.  Like that movie about Google, The Internship. People shouldn't see it.
L:  This is where my review philosophy differs from yours.  I believe in freedom.
H:  What are you a Tea Party member?
L:  Okay, let's just go do the recycling and leave it at that.