The Five Stages of Belief

Haley Joel Osment The Sixth Sense. Seeing is disbelieving!

CHRONICLING THE FIVE REVELATIONS ON YOUR WAY TO NEVER SEEING MOVIES THE SAME WAY AGAIN

This is the report that Hollywood doesn’t want you to see!

If in reviewing the material or analysis contained herein, you begin to experience difficulty absorbing the material, relax and know that you are in good hands.

What you are experiencing is quite normal. In fact, the process you are undergoing is to be expected! Just as formulaic mainstream movies are designed to produce an intended effect, hard-hitting analysis from The Minority Reporter also is intended to produce a formulaic response. Your response will largely come in five separate and distinct phases or stages – some of which may last mere seconds while others may persist for days on end.

Regardless, know that in the countless presentations, discussions, workshops, brown bag luncheons, speeches and conferences that The Minority Reporter has conducted, that scores of others have experienced what you are currently experiencing right now. The stages are as follows:

Cycle Stage                       Core Emotion

1. SUSPICION: I don’t know what to believe ; what is their agenda anyway?
2. DEPRESSION (AFFIRMATION): This sucks; no one can do anything about it anyway.
3. BARGAINING: Are you sure I’m involved? Maybe others are to blame for this.
4. ANGER: Things should be equal, but it is honestly not my fault or responsibility.
5. ACCEPTANCE: OK, I’m not going to change the world today, but I will ask more questions and talk about this more.

WARNING: The only “side-effect” that our researchers have observed is that after The Minority Reporter experience, “you will never see movies the same way again!”