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"Mantra: Sounds into Silence" is a new English-language documentary movie and I will spare you the list of countries that are listed as producing here, but it shows that georgia Wyss' most recent work was truly a global project. it runs for sllightly under 1.5 hours and focuses on the concept of mantras. Maybe if you know a bit about spiritualism, India, yoga or mindfulness, then you have come acorss this concept already. You could maybe say that it is a special kind of music that is supposed to help you in finding inner peace (with yourself most of all) and calmness. I myself struggle a bit with this particular kind of music and to really appreciate it, but maybe it's just me because I also struggle when it comes to singing along from any perspective and maybe it is just more powerful to be ain a room with these people and not just see them on a screen. Still, it is a documentary that is worth seeing in my opinion. There are many aspects here easy to appreciate, even if you struggle with the core aspect like I did. One example is the idea of music that serves the idea to heal people that is referenced on one occasion in particular, but on several occasions in a basic manner. And I've experienced that myself a few times how it can really help and turn you into a happier person. Another approach I liked was the idea of people telling us how they got into mantras. Not necessarily what it did for them, but where they were in their lives that they were looking for satisfaction and how they eventually ended up finding it, of course with the references to stress, the financial world and so on. Yes there are moments when people simply said generically that mantras saved their lives and these did not do too much for me, but in this kind of documentary you always find these I guess and honestly the quantity is not on a level where it is really tolerable. The positive is far more frequent than the negative without a doubt. It's easy to take something with you from this movie when you leave the theater afterward and it is something I cannot say about every documentary because for me personally, many of them had a too much spiritual note and it's difficult for me with this subject as I struggle to make connections with talking stones and so. But this one here does not require you to be in the subject very deeply. It is also for people who have no connection with the genercal concept of mindfulness or just not too much connection there, the description that fits me. I also found several of the performers pretty interesting as they really come from all kinds of backgrounds and what they had to say about the impact they are making on all kinds of people in need of help was as interesting as almost everything else about these 85 minutes. It's probably not a film that will be shown in too many theaters, but if you get the chance to check it out, then you should not miss out in my opinion. It really is worth seeing. Go for it.