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Pit plays an unlikable bloke but who in the end found
himself enlightened to the true priorities in life and
so his nature changed. The true story is of an adventurer
who scaled more than a mountain after meeting the spiritual
leader of the Bhuddist Philosophy, the Dalai Lama. Dalai
Lama was obviously aware of the sweetness within the bitter
man that he came to consider friend. Seldom do we have
an opportunity to sit back and really consider what it
must be like for a person with a Life Plan such as that
of the Dalai Lama and his ilk. The joys, the fears, the
responsibilities, the everyday mechanics of living while
being revered. Finding a friend in a sea of spiritual
dependants and devotes is tough enough, but keeping a
friend as a friend - not a reverential follower is much
tougher. Friends are in each other's company because they
want to be not because they have to be. |
This story is one of a man who has been set upon a philosophical
pedestal by the act of birth and preincarnate lives. A man expected
to have all the right answers with little room for error as
a nation of people depend upon his wisdoms. A man able to- and
expected to- reach back into his past incarnates to pull forth
the wisdom's which will allow the continuation of his peoples
very existence. A man who is in the body of a boy needing a
friend and all that simple friendship holds. The very real,
very grade level ambitions and life choices of a selfish, self
absorbed common man contrasted with the Dalai Lama's life plan
is edgy and intense lending the viewer a perspective of life
that rarely is portrayed. The character Brad Pit plays is an
excellent example of how one can attain enlightenment (even
in small doses) and overcome adversity through it. Afterall,
the lessons and joys of compassion are nothing if not shared.
I hope the viewer of this movie will be humbled and so, inject
a reality check into their own daily living conditions and concepts
of life priorities after watching this movie. |
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