You know what I really love about the beginning of the movie version of The Secret? The use of reverb and echo for mystery purposes. It’s as if the makers of the docu-fiction didn’t think people would actually feel any suspense, and they had to let viewers know that it’s what they should be feeling. In a hollow and distant voice, the woman is like “That’s when I discovered it. The Secret.” And it sounds like she was recorded saying it with her head in a microwave or something. Then, she’s like, “I went on a quest for others who knew about the secret.” This snappy dialogue is paired with random images, like a woman’s face close up, the top cut off so that you can see only her nose and mouth, and of course she is upside down, because that’s just downright suspenseful. And the echo… and the reverb… and I can practically hear ‘the secret, the secret, the secret’ echoing off in the distance.