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"I'm Fine, Thanks" Documentary Trailer

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    ♪ [1940's music] ♪
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    [NARRATOR] Let's look in on America's perfect family: the Joneses.
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    Why, just look at their amazing life!
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    Safe, secure jobs.
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    Social respect and admiration.
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    A growing family.
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    Home ownership!
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    New model cars.
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    And a gourmet kitchen.
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    Yes, the Joneses are living proof that if we're willing to follow the same trusted path...
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    [RECORD SCRATCH]
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    What! How did we ever buy into that...myth?
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    Since we have been young, we have been indoctrinated to follow a prescribed formula.
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    You have to get a degree.
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    And get the best job that you can.
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    The white picket fence...
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    The big-screen TV...
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    2.5 kids...
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    The babe, the boat, the bucks. The job, the six figures.
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    Work for forty, fifty years...and then retire.
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    I did all of the things that were expected of me
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    at the expense of my dreams.
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    Every Monday I would walk on the beach, and put my iPod in, and...
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    wonder what was wrong with me.
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    I was like: I live by the beach. I have a great job, all this money.
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    I'm so lucky right now.
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    And yet, I'm freaking miserable.
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    And I was on the road 3 to 4 days a week.
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    And I just remember thinking: I did not sign up to be a single parent.
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    Every single day, I would come home and I would
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    tell Betsy, I'm like, I cannot do this anymore. I cannot do this. I can't do this anymore.
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    When you're climbing the ladder and you get to the top
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    and you realize you have it leaned up against the wrong wall.
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    I didn't even know what the right wall was.
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    [CRYING] And I'm 32 and it, it feels like I should have that...figured out.
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    These people DO live these lives of quiet desperation. They WISH things were different.
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    They need Life to shake them and say,
    "Wake the f**k up!"
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    "This is not the way you've got to live!"
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    "There's something better out there."
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    ♪ ♪
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    ♪ [5 FILMMAKERS] ♪
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    [10,000+MILES] It's only when you start making choices for yourself
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    [42 days] that you can live your OWN dreams
    instead of 'The American Dream'.
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    ♪ [ON A JOURNEY] ♪
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    ♪ ♪
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    ♪ [TO FIND A NEW PATH] ♪
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    [TO FIND A NEW PATH] I'd be happy,
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    but I would not know
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    [TO HAPPINESS] what it was going to be like to keep this happening.
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    ♪ [TO HAPPINESS] ♪
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    [CHUCKLES]
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    ♪ ♪
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    ♪ [JULY 2012] ♪
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    [JULY 2012] I don't know what's around the corner for me.
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    ♪ [JULY 2012] ♪
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    [JULY 2012] I have never been so fulfilled not knowing.
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    ♪ ♪
Title:
"I'm Fine, Thanks" Documentary Trailer
Description:

The film crew needs your help getting this documentary out to the world: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cranktank/im-fine-thanks

Filmed by a make shift crew of five filmmaking friends, I'm Fine, Thanks is a new, feature-length documentary about complacency. It's a collection of stories about life, the choices we all make, and the paths we ultimately decide to follow.

We examine the factors that motivate and drive our major life choices. And, most importantly, whether or not the path we follow through life - and the habits we form based on that path - are truly connected with who we really are as individuals.

This is a movie about the moment people realize the life they're living is not the life that's true to their heart... and, as a result, what they decide to do about it!

For more insight, check out all the information listed on our Kickstarter page:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cranktank/im-fine-thanks
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Video Language:
English
Team:
Volunteer
Duration:
02:39

English subtitles

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