7/10
Better-than-expected documentary about a guy (director David Sieveking) introduced to transcendental meditation via a lecture given by his idol (director David Lynch). We follow along with him as he first becomes enamored and later jaded with both the philosophy and the director who led him to it. The movie does a good job of taking us along David's journey, and none of it really feels staged or as if he's going in to the process with an agenda. He comes across as a bit of a naif, and it actually works to the movie's benefit. The movie asks the routine questions about the TM movement's ethics, politics, cultish behavior, etc, but Sieveking seems hesitant to really try to blow the whole thing wide open. Probably because, as the movie implies, he's not sure he wants the myth (both of TM and of Lynch) destroyed himself.
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