I really liked Nick, and I liked the premise of the documentary. What made this a two-star for me was that the director was grating, negative, and judgmental whenever Nick was just honest about how he wasn't sure what to think yet, or when he had doubts. She'd speak to him like he was a child and it was condescending and unpleasant to listen to, especially since the director seemed to have no self-awareness of this. It didn't seem at all that she was interested in what Nick actually felt, but instead started the project only being okay with one specific outcome and acted immature when he didn't just blindly go along with it. I couldn't help but think it must be really unpersuasive to have someone like that try to sell you a message of enlightenment; she didn't at all strike me as someone at peace, to say nothing of the grander goals of yoga. It seemed like yoga just made her self-absorbed and self-righteous. (I don't think that's always true of yoga, just so it's clear. I don't have anything against yoga.)



Other than that, it was interesting to see what all the different people had to say about yoga. The director was just so distracting that it made the documentary almost entirely unenjoyable; after the first couple snippy bits of negativity from her, I couldn't really enjoy the rest of the documentary knowing that more of that was inevitably coming -- and it did -- and I just felt uncomfortable for Nick. She was such a bully. I can't believe a grown woman would act that way.