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Writer and presenter Alain De Botton explores the myth that our level of material wealth and career success has a bearing on our happiness and spiritual contentment. Read more

Starring Alain De Botton
Genres Documentary, Special Interest

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Status Anxiety

Writer and presenter Alain De Botton explores the myth that our level of material wealth and career success has a bearing on our happiness and spiritual contentment.

Starring Alain De Botton
Studio REVOLVER ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 47 mins
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Genres Documentary, Special Interest
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 26 Jul 2004
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  • "...De Botton's gift is to prompt us to think about how we live and, just as importantly, how we might change things..."

    • The Times
    • Posted 11 Mar 2005

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  • 13 out of 13 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Eye opening!

    This documentary is a real eye opener! I openly admit to being totally sucked into the way society squeezes you for every last drop of energy and commitment that you have. Watch this program and have a very humongous weight lifted from your shoulders when you finally understand the truth behind why your never happy with your current job role, why you feel that you never earn enough and why your next door neighbour is secretly your enemy! This program really does beat any pay rise! Well ok... not really.... but it is a must see! :o)

      • STEVE MARR from Sunny Didcot
      • Posted 14 Jun 2005 06:40

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Last third brilliant -- sadly was built on top of a very weak - and frankly ridiculous - base.

    The third and final part of the documentary that explored bohemia, how we assign value and awareness of death was brilliant. The profiles throughout of philosophers were excellent as well. Five stars for this final installment. The first part, Causes, however, had me believing the narrator to be a complete and utter twit. He gallops off to America looking for, and indeed finding, the most ridiculous and extreme caricatures consumerism. Ages were spent flicking back and forth between homeless people sleeping rough and overzealous worshipers in a happy clappy church where the story of Jesus has been turned into a grab-the-cash manifesto. From there he flicked to a small and somber creaky English congregation kneeling penitently. I had to stifle my gag reflex. I almost turned it off, but in the end was glad I stuck through.

      • A customer from Chorleywood, England
      • Posted 24 Oct 2006 23:34

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