9/10
Teaching and appreciating
11 February 2018
Warning: Spoilers
A movie directed by Mark Verkerk describes a life of a monk named Khru Bah who dedicated himself to teaching of children to basic knowledge which life demands. In addition, «Buddha's Lost Children» tells a story of every children becoming a monk. Thru Bah and his novices live in Northern Thailand, the Golden Horse monastery. A films shows a regular life of the monk and his teachings. Thru Bah is the one who spend 15 days and nights to find peace and calm of soul.

A death of his close friend followed by a vivid dream made him to be a monk and spread knowledge and experience with the ones who demands it. The film shows how children lost in poor family lives and who are living with no purpose met an opportunity to develop and experience a warm, inner and outer warm of the mind and body.

«Buddha's Lost Children» teaches people to good things. Here a monk and the children make a good to their environment: rebuild a temple, share with a knowledge to improve people, help materially to poor families. Also, close link between humans and people is represented through respect to horses.

This movie teaches to appreciate everything we have now. A monk's influence to the relationships between the children, their perceptions of life and love let every viewer to rethink about these things. Love is defined from the another side: tough love makes us even stronger to overpower weakness. Besides, appreciation of the current condition is also one of the teaching of the film because it emphasizes harsh and poor conditions of hill tribe people.

«Buddha's Lost Children» shares with not only monk's lives, but also teaches us that every difficulty is another opportunity to make a good. The film is definitely must watch, especially for families with children.
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