So much average

Absolutely the worst movie.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

What to say about this bizarre "documentary" (read: technocratic propaganda) except that when it finished my skin crawled and I almost wept for the ignorance of history that permeates nearly every minute of this over-dramatic, hyperbolic and misleading hysteria.It is quite incredible to me how human beings can be sucked in again and again to the same tried-and-failed arguments and pseudo-intellectual fallacies that have already been shown to result in misery and suffering. Oh, but maybe this time the elimination of individuality, meritocracy and fruitful hierarchy will be different! Tell that to the millions of victims of communism throughout history - it'll be different this time, because machines! Yes, that is really the crux of the entire movie, and it made my blood run cold. To see the rating this has received - to see so many ignorant fools wilfully celebrating the surrender of their own freedom in the name of 'the greater good' has made me quite depressed. Are people seriously so envious of others, so afraid of not having the whitest picket fence on their street that they would destroy all elements of individual achievement and potential rather than find themselves on the bottom of the human scrapheap? That is the saddest indictment of humankind's pettiness that I can imagine. This movie tries to silence its critics through ridiculing, complete with the classic anti-White stereotype of a dumb redneck shouting obscenities. But there is nothing dumb about fearing the dangerous ideas propagated in this movie. Marxist thought processes are responsible for more murder and death in this world than all other political ideologies combined, and nobody should stand idly by while communist ideas disguised as scientific utopia are drip-fed in shiny packaging to a naive, frustrated and intellectually stunted audience. That is a crime more heinous than any international banker. There are many things wrong with the world. But eliminating personal choice and creating a regimented, sterile regime where there is no freedom, no individuality and no room for the highs and lows that are what being alive is all about.. that would be the greatest tragedy of all.

A really, really good documentary...but, "preaching" what Buddha and countless others preached over the time, things like "be good" ..."help others"...etc, etc ...all these discussions around how we should be, how we could be, and how we are not, do not really help, they do no harm also, don't get me wrong, they might actually help on the long run, which i hope, but, i know me, as an example ... i am aware of these things, and still, do nothing about it ... i don't like it, i'm scare of it, but still do nothing besides giving it 2-3 thoughts, tell my friends about the movie/doc, and go on with my pursue for money and "wealth"...so getting back to "Buddha" ...should i understand, that we, the modern civilization, just discovered we are retards? seriously?...offcourse we are, history knows better, but the sad thing is, we go on, and do it again, and again, and again ...and yes, might not be genetic, but it's close ... it's almost impossible to ask for current generations to change, but we could prepare the ground for future generations...such great words ..."prepare the ground for future generations" ...and such clichés ...

Great documentary. If you are very educated person with open mind without rigid, automatic thinking and you can think out of the box you will love this movie. If you aren't then this movie will be a harsh attack on your ego and the illusionary personality it created. You will hate it...As shown in documentary identification/attachment to illusionary mental concepts of religion, ideology, status, wealth, race, nationality, country and other similar is caused by a lack of control over one's mind. Identifications with such fleeting mental concepts are only possible when a person's mind is not open and has become very rigid. Such identifications/attachments have proved to be extremely dangerous and destructive to all life on this planet. The madness of human mind can be clearly seen on global scale. What has been happening around the world is a direct projection of all individual minds of all people. The history of human kind is a history of mental illness. If you look at the history of human kind using medical criteria you would come up with a diagnosis of severely psychopathic mental disorder. Considering the current state of life on our planet projection of such mental attitude is no longer acceptable...

The movie was very strong in naming and explaining what is wrong with the world today. Namely the economy, monetary politics, usage of capital and debt creation, production/advertising/goods distribution ways and related consumer behavior. It also had many points on how our behavior impacts environment - and the makers also skillfully put stress on our planet being finite (having finite volume of resources) we can use without the regard on sustainability and/or renewal. It was alright. The most sounding point was that shopping for, gathering and consuming (=trashing) goods does not make us happy. It doesn't. Paying up debts doesn't either. But then, they've unfortunately came up with "solutions". I would have so many logical and practical questions and remarks to that as a proof it's nothing but an utopia. There's no way people could be motivated or even forced to create something like that and remain compliant with these rules. It would never work - not even in theory. Shortly after, the whole "solution" started to evolve about the designed life project called The Venus project - a vision of Jacque Fresco. It's a huge techno-communist and an utopian idea about making a high-tech tech robots and systems serve the people of this self-sufficient society. Everything would be taken care of by these machines and they would eliminate the need for standard human jobs. Even garbage and mail would be distributed by robots running around in tubes. And hold your breath : no money would exist in this society. In reality a market would start to exist the minute after this came in effect and people would trade the "free" things they get.People will always want something from each other and very likely they'll have to pay by something that represents value. The sentence about money free system would make any theory ridiculous. It said people that do not work for the money (and are under stress of their lack+need of) would not just sit around but they'd do things for joy. OK, I get that although I'm pretty sure they would rather choose fun activities than doing anything useful and a disaster would be inevitable. And wait, who would operate or service the robots? Slaves? Who would study long years to be able to program, create, build and repair all those super devices, watch over resources distribution, double check if machine are working and not making wrong choices? Who would study for and work jobs that could not be replaced technically like a doctor for example? This society was said to have 95% less crime than normal society. Sounds great but I'd like to know if people would want to risk their life as cops if they could do something safer as far as everybody could do what they wanted. Oh wait, nobody said that. Not once in the whole movie. That's probably because even in a very wild dream this could only exist if people were enslaved to fulfill "the purpose of common" good. (And they might be dumb enough to welcome that). We've had these "perfect" iron-fist "righteous" systems so many times here in history. And though we as people are fairly dumb we must have learned already there's absolutely no good in an ideological common "good". As sick as it sounds people need to be simply motivated egoistically or their will disobey and revolt. This world has gone wrong in so many ways and we really need to pay attention especially to global-scale problems and figure out how to fix them but I tell you one thing - this is not the way. By far. What has to be granted though is, they present their ideas openly and not try to hide or mix their meaning. This movie reminded me what I already knew (and extended of some interesting stats) that earth and humanity is sick and something has to be done. But I am very positive, this movie doesn't offer ideas that could serve as an effective cure and everyone who understand the reality should agree. Make sure to notice the passage when the title expresses worries about possible insults and labels like communism and fascism. The movie gave a lot of reasons for people to address these labels towards these ideas. The zeitgeist engineers then respond to this hypothetical insult and explain why would it be wrong to call them Marxists, communist or fascist. And they are right. The correct world for this non-sense would be (techno)utopianism.And they were brisk enough to even include that one!