But I also thought the movie was pretty shallow and stupid.

Years ago, when I was a young corporate trainee at a Dow 30 company I was attending one of my first 6-week indoctrination (brainwashing) seminars. They worked us like dogs, 24/7, and the training school was located way out in the boondocks so as not to have any bad outside influences.

So, one day, after lunch, as we were filing back into our classroom we were surprised, and curious, at seeing all the video cameras and other assorted audio/visual equipment that had been set up there.

So, there we were, nervously fidgeting in our seats, wondering what we were going to be involved in, when the instructor got up to the podium and said: "Today, you're going to be introduced to the art of public speaking. Each of you will have a turn at the podium, and you will give a talk, or speech, and the event will be recorded. Afterwards, we will play back the videos and critique your performances."

Well, talk about gut busting, pee your pants, panic setting in. I don't care who you were, the biggest, toughest, linebacker type, or Mr. Macho Man, you were reduced to a quivering, sniveling bowl of Jello.  And, to make matters worse, there would be no script, you were going to talk, ad lib style. And, to complete the torture, you weren't going to be given the topic to speak about until you got to the podium and a second before the cameras started rolling.
The rules were that you would give a timed, 5-minute speech, on the topic they gave you. You had to use the whole 5 minutes.

Well, let me tell you, you will never see a more hilarious, inept, bunch of spastic monkeys make bigger fools of themselves than we did that day. Some just froze, and stared at the camera for the whole 5 minutes, never uttering a word. Others, were so nervous, pounding the sides of the podium, shuffling their feet, while what came out of their mouths was a stream of, "Uh, Uh, you know, you know, uh, uh." And, trust me, if you don't believe that 5 minutes can last 5 hours, you've never given an ad lib speech before an audience.

Anyway, finally, when it was all over, and all of us were trying to recuperate from this ordeal, the instructor got up to the podium and said to us: "Ladies and gentlemen, you've just gone through the hardest thing you'll ever have to go through in your business careers. Nothing you'll ever do will be as difficult as what you've experienced today. No one passed, or failed. No one was good, or bad. You were only there to "experience." From this  day forward there's only one direction to go..........up.