At the height of the epidemic in 2020, I sat in bed alone in the early morning and watched the previous work of this documentary, " Minimalism: Recording the Important Things in Life "
Netflix brings its latest sequel, Minimalism: The Time Has Come, in early 2021
The previous film, Minimalism: Documenting the Important Things in Life, really influenced me a lot, and it was one of the documentaries that had the biggest impact on me—the other one was A Film About Sugar .
It makes some of my usual concepts concrete. After the epidemic, I know better to focus on the things I really care about, and discard those products that are artificially created and demanded but are easy to accumulate dust.
But after a few minutes of watching the sequel start, I feel so different from what I've seen before. This is an ordinary Netflix documentary boilerplate.
This kind of documentary will be mixed with interview clips of many ordinary people and the narration of some experts. The director tries to use the scattered words of these various people to tell the point of view of the film. But I'm getting tired of this pattern, and while they definitely have refined graphics, it's not as good as writing an article in the language.
Compared with the previous work using different minimalist practices to convey the core idea of minimalism, I think it is superfluous to restate the point of view of the previous work, this film is very non-minimalist.
One last word, Netflix has also become a subscription service I want to cancel when I think about reducing unnecessary stuff, and there are tons of boilerplate documentaries and better-than-nothing movies in my productions.
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