Movie Review : Kundun

Gorgeous, original, and great cinematography and my goodness, I could eat the first five minutes with a spoon!

This movie does a grand job of balancing landscape with history with religion with politics. It reached an emotional peak which left me depressed and detached from my immediate surroundings. Further research as a means to an answer to the question of who actually and rightly owns Tibet left me confused as well; I don't know the answer.

It is sad to think that His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso will one day pass and that, without a homeland, a rich, unarguably unique and in some ways fantastically progressive tradition may pass with him. Yet, perhaps the tradition will be adaptable enough to change and survive in the future.