Within the context of the movie’s mystical New Age worldview, however, the statement suggests to viewers to let go of their attachment to mundane thoughts that limit them and adopt nominalistic New Age thoughts that will let them become one with the universe and its mystical flow. After all, a bad mental attitude can indeed lead to bad things, including immoral behavior. For example, at one point, Socrates points to Dan’s forehead and says, “The trash is up here.” Taken out of context, this statement can be applied in good ways. Some of the movie’s New Age teachings are not necessarily offensive in and of themselves.
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Thus, the movie is not as dramatically compelling as it should be. PEACEFUL WARRIOR is able to hold the viewer’s interest, but the protagonist is a distasteful playboy whose main battles are against himself. When Dan suffers a terrible motorcycle accident, however, he returns to Socrates and his New Age training in order to heal his shattered body and compete for a chance at the Olympics.
Dan jokingly calls the man “Socrates,” but eventually becomes perturbed by the man’s mystical advice. He stops at a gas station, where he encounters a mysterious gray-haired attendant who has on the same pair of shoes that the janitor in Dan’s dream wears.ĭan becomes intrigued by the attendant, who spouts New Age aphorisms like “wisdom is in doing” and who seems to be able to slow down time and suddenly materialize atop the gas station’s roof. Upset, Dan leaves the girl lying in bed next to him to go jogging. In the dream, a janitor with two mismatched shoes sweeps up the pieces of Dan’s leg.
Young college gymnast Dan Millman dreams that he shatters his leg, which breaks into a thousand plastic jigsaw pieces. PEACEFUL WARRIOR is a low-budget New Age sports drama that has some moral problems to go along with its philosophical oddities.īased on a best-selling book, the movie opens with a dream sequence.
PEACEFUL WARRIOR also contains foul language and sexual content. Some of the New Age teachings are not necessarily offensive, when taken out of context as simple proverbs, but the movie's worldview gives them an abhorrent, amoral context. Thus, the movie is not as compelling as it could be. PEACEFUL WARRIOR is able to hold the viewer's interest, but the protagonist is a distasteful playboy whose main battles are against himself. When Dan suffers a terrible motorcycle accident, he turns to Socrates, and his New Age training, to heal his shattered body and compete for a chance at the Olympics. Dan becomes intrigued by the attendant, who spouts New Age aphorisms like "wisdom is in doing" and whom Dan, in jest, calls Socrates. Dan stops at a gas station, where he encounters a mysterious gray-haired attendant, who seems to be one of the people in his dream. Upset, Dan leaves a girl lying in bed to go jogging. Based on a best-selling book, the movie opens with a dream sequence where a young college gymnast named Dan Millman dreams of shattering his leg. PEACEFUL WARRIOR is a low-budget New Age sports drama.
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