Review of Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (2016) by Erol F — 19 Jul 2016

A documentary about humans being vulnerable and their chance to be stronger, happier, more whole on the other side. I dare any viewer to keep from tearing up, if they have a heart!

Reminds one of the work of Dr. Brene Brown, made known by TED, on vulnerability, shame, and our struggle to be human. As she notes, we all crave love and belonging, which comes through vulnerability, BUT life is challenging, our culture thinks vulnerability is weakness and uses cynicism to suppress it because we hate seeing vulnerability. The critics seem to have one thing in common: they already distrust Mr. Robbins, the world explored, and thus are disappointed there's no blood, no smoking gun, no "pulling back to covers" to expose some truth they already decided. This is a film about the people, what we humans go through, and one man's passion to help regardless of all the reasons he is not supposed to.