Just ten minutes into this movie the first people started to leave the cinema, what ignorami I thought to myself, they cannot have given it much chance in this short time. But people continue to leave at various points throughout it, even if the tickets were quite expensive. It's a crowd-divider for sure.
For people unfamiliar to concepts of Buddhism I can understand it's a hard movie. There's no regular story or even conflict to think of here. It manages to pull it off without, and that's quite an achievement I think! Rather than your regular drama it's a meditation and an expression of underlying experiences of things which cannot be understood by intellectual means such as reincarnation and the true essence of self and nature.
I would still recommend this to everyone as it is such a beautiful description of balanced lives. It reminds me of the universalism of Tagore and cosmological Buddhist poetry.
For people unfamiliar to concepts of Buddhism I can understand it's a hard movie. There's no regular story or even conflict to think of here. It manages to pull it off without, and that's quite an achievement I think! Rather than your regular drama it's a meditation and an expression of underlying experiences of things which cannot be understood by intellectual means such as reincarnation and the true essence of self and nature.
I would still recommend this to everyone as it is such a beautiful description of balanced lives. It reminds me of the universalism of Tagore and cosmological Buddhist poetry.