Over the past two years, the pandemic has taught many lessons to those living at a frantic pace. Life stopped, offices closed and children were sent home. While some took the opportunity to reconnect with a passion or discover new hobbies, others had to juggle multiple responsibilities at once.
The phenomenon was not born of COVID-19, but it was exacerbated in several homes. Telecommuting and babysitting, or school at home on a computer with many sources of entertainment and distraction: adolescents and adults alike have tried to be more productive, often not realizing that they were actually less productive than when their lives were more compartmentalized.
Through studies and interviews with professionals, the documentary Multitasking brain, an illusion? explains that carrying out several tasks at the same time is not desirable, neither for the human being nor for the final result, which suffers. Stress factor, “multitasking” is dissected every minute of the feature film broadcast by Télé-Québec, and we discover the subtleties of the brain.
Fairly traditional in style, with French dubbing on a background of original voices, the documentary is not very catchy, except for a few singular illustrations here and there. The interest lies rather in the meticulous scientific explanations that will delight those who are fascinated by the brain and its mysteries.
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