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Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (2016) is a English movie. Joe Berlinger has directed this movie. Sage Bonnie Humphrey,Steven Kronick,Anthony Robbins,Dawn Watson are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2016. Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (2016) is considered one of the best Documentary movie in India and around the world.
TONY ROBBINS: I AM NOT YOUR GURU, a feature documentary film about internationally renowned life and business strategist Tony Robbins, is a revelatory cinéma vérité film that goes behind the scenes of his mammoth seminar "Date With Destiny," attended by over 2,500 people in Boca Raton, Florida, each year, to give an insider look at how one man can affect millions. Granted never before seen access to the behind the scenes modus operandi of this enormous event, this film captures both the immense effort of producing this live seminar, as well as the life-changing transformations of the participants in real time. Embedding with Tony Robbins and his team over the course of six days, Academy Award nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger turns an unflinching eye on Tony Robbins' powerful and uncompromising approach to achieving success, ensuring the attendees leave "Date With Destiny" with new perspective on the forces, thoughts, and feelings that motivate their behavior and help them take ...
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Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (2016) Reviews
It's not a documentary
I have an MA degree in documentary making (yes there is a course lol!) and this film is not a 'documentary'. It's an advertisement. There's no critical assessment to the subject matter. Things are just accepted at face value and that's where credibility is lost. Basically, it's a pro-positive fluff piece that doesn't dig deep. I've given it at 4 as it was filmed well and it's interesting to see the background to his workshops; however, to call this a documentary in the traditional sense is just wrong.
Tricked by the Netflix Logo...
The Netflix Logo tricked me into watching this infomercial disguised as a documentary. From a movie making point of view it is flawless. Beautiful camera-work, perfect editing and intriguing soundtrack. As the director proved time and time again, he is a master of his art, e.g. the Metallica documentary. But this time he failed in separating his personal experience from his job as a documentary filmmaker and basically made a concert movie that serves as an advertisement for Mr. Robbins and his empire. The length of the documentary with almost 2 hours is also contributing to the fact that i fell like someone tried to brainwash me.
Drop the Jaded Skepticism. Review the film. Not the man.
Don't trust the pointless, academic negativity you see here. Directed by Joe Berlinger of critical darling "Paradise Lost," "TONY ROBBINS: I AM NOT YOUR GURU" is a powerful piece of vérité about a most unconventional, controversial man. The naïve negative reviews you see here for this film are simply bad because the reviewers are reviewing the "man," and not the film. There are pointless accusations that Robbins believes he is "cool," because he uses foul language. What, on earth, would that simplistic point, an inference, no less, mean in a documentary? Maybe he should have created a less complex portrait by cleaning up his language for the first- graders who saw this by accident. There are pointless slams about his lack of psychological education, when that entire industry—has anyone seen the mental gymnastics it took to explain the latest, wildly wrong- headed DSM by a psychiatric and psychological community who have expressed embarrassment about the discipline's lack of direction—and, again, this has nothing to do with the film. Neither does denying that some individual could experience cathartic change from the oddness of the Robbins event put under a microscope in this film—from its planners and facilitators to the bizarrely American come-from-nothing story of Robbins himself, a man who knows the significant abuse many of his followers have come to share (we are talking genuine abuse: murders; rapes; abandonment—not tiny things). The film, in a sense, poses a question can someone articulate, a genuine communicator, who has suffered and risen above enormous pain—is someone like that, even when that individual becomes a cottage industry onto himself—better than an academic who has only sat outside true pain and does his or her best to understand what that other, the patient who has endured the unspeakable, has gone through? For a strong portrait of a uniquely individual American, see it; if you're a die-hard skeptic—I double welcome you. But grade the film—not the man or what you believe is possible.
What the hype is all about.
I don't see infomercials, yet have heard that Tony Robbins is a friend of a trusted friend, so that piqued my interest.Sadly, when I watch a film listed as a documentary,I'm expecting journalism,which means the film maker should check the material before release. this wasn't done for I'm not your Guru. If you're one of millions that haven't spent between 5 and 10 grand to fly, stay and attend these self help for the masses, you might be curious what the hype's all about. In this film, that'll be answered, with bias.As Tony Robbins admits, were in the age of entertainment. This film shows very select bits or clips carefully hand picked from one of Tony Robbins Date with Destiny self help events with approx 2500 attendees. It appears as if Tony had final approval for the finished product. If you're curious about what people pay so much for, this is the longest advertisement for his seminars you'll see. The worst part of the film for me, aside from the two hour advertisement to sell more seats to Tony's seminar/events, are the following offensive aspects: 1) I don't like someone teaching communication techniques that has the vocabulary of a 12-year old with a foul mouth; hear me out; which Tony justifies as part of the process- that it shocks the attendees into awareness. He says he deliberately breaks linguistic taboos. I totally disagree. When someone throws "f" bombs in every other sentence it tells me a) he should wear a tattoo across his forehead "no gentleman here": b)expletives repeated over and over and over reveals the speakers lack of educated intelligent communication skills to articulately express concepts that might be helpful. 2) A documentary in my opinion shouldn't serve as an advertisement for a product without thorough fact checking, it's a cheap way for Tony to recruit more attendees. The release on Netflix was timed with promotional give aways and contests that also should have fine print carefully examined. 3)I expect a critical journalistic expose of our cultures religious, self-help, pseudo-psych gurus, leaders, and charlatans. This film did none of the above. I was disappointed to see it as an extended length infomercial of Tony Robbins.(Anthony J. Mahavoric). If you're already a convert, you might like it. If you're already an Oprah fan you might like it. If your a person that feels these programs are run by unqualified, hacks that do as much damage or more than good, this won't help you learn anything new, except how the masses buy what they've been sold hook line and sinker...Baaah baaah baa little sheepykins...follow along now. If you are curious about what the masses are paying thousands of hard earned dollars for, this will give you a glimpse at the typical followers, the demographics of his attendees, and carefully chosen Tony Robbins flattering film bits or bytes. Spoiler Alert: I complain that the filmmakers didn't research Tony's life well enough, for this to be deemed a "Documentary". During the film Tony makes statements about his personal past that aren't substantiated or fact checked. I enjoy well made Documentary films, I watch to learn. I think the title/genre carries a responsibility for the filmmaker to do more and present beyond the singular support of promotion to the cause.
I am in fact your Guru
Having been aware of the mystique surrounding Tony Robbins as the king of motivational speakers but having never seen him in action, I was very curious to watch I am not your Guru to understand more about the man and his methods. Having now watched it a few times, I am still not fully sure what to make of the film or Tony himself. On the one hand, the $5,000 cost and week-long commitment to his Date With Destiny event means that it ensures that only those who are serious about making changes to their lives attend. You can see from the audience reactions to his teachings that they buy into the programme 100% but the problem for me is that although he claims not to be their Guru, that is exactly how they respond to him in their physical and emotional reactions. They hang on his every word and there is no sense of anyone ever challenging aspects such as his excessive language, provocative methods and "make your life a masterpiece" fortune cookie type sentiments. An example of this is the German teenager who has clearly been let down by everyone around him in his life (his parents, educators and peers) that he felt compelled to travel half way round the world to have Tony spend 5 minutes telling him it was all going to be ok with no substance behind it. The teenager just looked into Tony's eyes and received the reassurance he needed. Tony was his Guru and if that helped him then fine. I am not saying that the participants are just compliant sheep; there is clearly a lot of people with promise and talent in the audience who just needed that push or reassurance. The section devoted to the brave Dawn underlines this; her opening up to Tony and just having faith in knowing that whatever happens next can only bring a better life for her and others around her is definitely the highlight of the film. Other participants featured have less inspirational outcomes. A woman breaks up with her partner in front of 2500 people only to reunite after the event finishes. A married couple re-connect but you are left feeling that a decent marriage counsellor could have done the same thing for them at a fraction of the cost. The lack of inspirational outcomes just makes you feel the event serves as a placebo for many participants until returning to real life. The film has a documentary feel but the lack of challenging of Tony's methods by the Director Joe Berlinger reduce it instead to a free advertisement for Robbins Incorporated. This needed a Louis Theroux style approach as he would have got under the skin of participants and Tony. The event is very professional and the army of support teams (warm up guys, counsellors, event managers etc) Tony uses does ensure that participants are looked after during the week. You can also see why its $5000 a person as these people also need to be paid. I have always found with motivational speaking or training in general that you only take from each event small elements which over the years build into an overall library of learnings. I will definitely take away some elements of Tony's philosophies learnt from I am not your Guru. Would I fly half way round the world and pay $5000 to experience it for myself ? No I wouldn't but I can see why some people would.