by Glenn Sumi on January 10th, 2021 at 3:33 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
Ten months of pandemic lockdown has provided an opportunity to purge those closets, declutter those shelves and maybe get around to doing some minor renovations. Or maybe you’ve done the opposite and gone online-shopping-happy.
Whatever your consumer habits, the new Netflix doc
The Minimalists: Less Is Now might just inspire you to pare down the things in your life to the essentials and concentrate on what’s really important. It’s too bad the short doc comes up empty on new revelations.
The basic 53-minute film uses the lives and philosophies of the acclaimed duo dubbed The Minimalists (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus) to present some sobering facts about our spending habits and tendency to hoard. (One of the most popular quotes it kicks off the film’s trailer states that the average American house contains more than 300,000 items.)
While the start of a new year and ‘decluttering’ might attract you to the short documentary The Minimalists: Less is Now, the quasi-religious tone of its two protagonists feels more like a church sermon from a cult than an introduction to just living with less.
Movie theaters are slowly reopening, but most of the new releases are headed to streaming services rather than the big screen. Whether you're staying at