00:00Never trust your favorite influencers.
00:02The film Guru focuses on personal development coaches,
00:05which I like to call gigantic pieces of shit.
00:07I'll explain my opinion on the film later.
00:08Mathieu Vasseur, played by Pierre Ninet, is the most followed coach in France.
00:11filling rooms with followers absolutely every day.
00:13This exercise will worry the authorities to the point of wanting to impose a state diploma.
00:16But Matt is not a graduate and doesn't even have his high school diploma.
00:18So it's a film that divides opinions simply because we are very discerning about French cinema.
00:22and especially concerning Pierre Ninet,
00:24which has genuine transparency with its audience and community.
00:26But for me, the film works very well.
00:28However, I would criticize him for having made Matt a caricature of himself.
00:32whereas in real life, there are already many people like him.
00:34They may have pushed the toxicity of the character a little too far.
00:37while personal development coaches,
00:39There are enough of them to depict a realistic character.
00:41Because indeed, it's very important to remind you of this,
00:43Personal development coaches will never help you.
00:45But perhaps this choice was made with the aim of exploring a different approach to storytelling.
00:48Hence this ending, which I won't spoil, but which I found particularly daring.
00:51Hence my tagline: never trust your favorite influencers.
00:54The film addresses the danger that public figures can pose.
00:56Their resources, their powers; it also speaks to the danger of mixing everything together.
01:00in politics, in education, in economics.
01:02And this film offers an interesting image of personal development coaches.
01:05They are narrators, storytellers, screenwriters,
01:08with the sole purpose of capitalizing on your needs.
01:10And this discourse is exactly the same with influencers.
01:13There is absolutely no magic formula for success in life.
01:15And that's exactly the opposite of what these personal development coach influencers are offering you.
01:20The reason I created a film one day,
01:22It was simply to create something that would surpass me, to challenge me.
01:25And the only thing I offer you is solely my passion.
01:27If tomorrow I no longer like cinema or if I no longer like music,
01:29I'm stopping because I have nothing to sell you.
01:31However, when you react to my videos,
01:33Indeed, I might be making a little bit of money.
01:34In short, go see Guru, it's still a very good film.
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