It’s pretty safe to say that a lot of the success from Mark Manson’s best-selling book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a #@%! hails from the way that the author subverted what readers are used to finding in self-help books.
About 85% of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a #@%! is author Mark Manson talking to the camera about his life experience and how he learned to not give many fucks about things that surround him. That’s great, especially coming from the author himself. However, Manson and director Nathan Price ignore the basic premise of a documentary, which is to do a deep dive and bring a nuanced conversation about a subject to its viewers.
And while you could argue that The Subtle Art of Not Giving a #@%! subverts the very medium it’s using by not adhering to its rules — as the book did — this seems like a bad way to do it. The scene that best exemplifies this is the documentary’s very last: Manson suggests that the audience should do a death-defying stunt only to later reveal he did it with a safety net that was later removed digitally.
At the same time, the documentary spends next to no time dissecting how capitalism plays a huge part in messing up people’s mental health by putting a price tag on every human experience. Even if we do know that buying things and achieving certain positions do not necessarily mean we’ll be happy, we can’t pretend that we’re not bombarded with these types of messages 24/7, and that has an effect on the way we live and make plans.
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