Kundun
by Martin Scorsese
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Actor: Gyurme Tethong, Tencho Gyalpo, Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Tenzin Yeshi Paichang, Tulku Jamyang Kunga TenzinDirector: Martin Scorsese
Brand: Disney
Producer: Barbara De Fina
Producer: Jeanne Stack
Producer: Laura Fattori
Producer: Melissa Mathison
Writer: Melissa Mathison
Producer: Perry Santos
Producer: Scott Harris
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 134 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-10-14
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
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DVD Review: Kundun
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie was about the life of the 14th reincarnation of the Dali Lama. He was found in a small town in Tibet as a child only 2 years of age. They believed that this child was the Dali Lama, just based upon a few observations that they had. They put a few items in front of him and some belonged to the Dali Lama's of the past and mixed in some items that were the same but had no meaning. The child was able to identify all the items that had belonged to the pervious Dali Lama's and even responded that they belonged to him. This movie explores the life of the child growing up being a very religious figure. The 14th Dali Lame was eventually exiled out of Tibet, and taken to India for his safety and for his people. He still resides there today. This movie relates to my religions class because right now we are working on Buddhism. This movie showed the life of the monks and there practices. It showed there rituals and chanting that they did. It really gave an inside look of the temple and how things work. It also gave a sense of the middle way and how they truly believed that living a certain way would bring enlightenment. There no violent methods of thing was also very important, they didn't fight back just transported the 14th Dali Lama to India. For their thought was every action has a reaction. This movie kinda had the same non violent concept of the last movie that we watched which was Ghandi. that movie was about Hinduism and this movie is about buddhism. I think that Buddhism is a very unigue religion and this movie showed all the details and the thoughts behind the religion. It was like you were right there with the Dali lama as he grew up to fast.
DVD Review: Kundun
Summary: 4 Stars
Martin Scorsese does an outstanding job directing the artfully moving and emotionally charged motion picture, "Kundun." The film provides a poignant and staunch recount of the early life and times of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, born in 1935 to an independent Tibet.
Deeply rooted in the religious beliefs and customs of Buddhism, this movie provides a judicious glimpse into life as it occurs within a Tibetan Monastery. Meditation and sacred ceremonies find center stage as the life and early development of the fourteenth Dalai Lama are shared. Chanting, drumming, worship scenes, and blowing of horns create a pious feel toward the divine and lend themselves most appropriately to the film.
Legend has it that signs lead holy men to the birth place of the reincarnated Buddha. A common sign are two crows that guard the infant at birth. Once found, the child must first undergo various tests to prove he is truly the reincarnated one before being recognized as their holy leader, the Dalai Lama.
Whether it was intended or not is unknown, but the film could almost serve as a documentary -- as it takes us from the time of birth of the fourteenth Lama, through young adulthood. It explores the exploits and cruelty that awaits the peaceful and independent land of Tibet, when communistic China decided the country should be under its control. By the film's end, it successfully and skillfully captured the historic and tragic outcome that occurred when nonviolence and compassion met with greed, desire, and unthinkable violence; thus, eventually leading to the inauspicious fleeing of the Dalai Lama from his homeland to the safety of India for the sake of his people. He still resides there today.
Written by Melissa Mathison, this recipient of four Oscar nominations is a very good film and comes highly recommended. Receiving a rating of PG-13, it may not be suitable for younger viewers, but is a good choice for the mature audience.
DVD Review: Kundun Review
Summary: 3 Stars
The movie begins in 1937 in a remote area of Tibet located near the Chinese border. A two year old child is located and believed to be the fourteenth reincarnation of the Buddha Compassion, Dali Lama. He is destined to become the spiritual and political leader of his people. A couple of years later, the child is brought to Lhasa and he was trained as a monk. At the age of fourteen, he uses news reels and magazine articles to study the war in the west, World War II. The film allows us to watch him grow up into his teenage years. At the age of 14, Tibet is invaded by the Chinese and he, the child, is forced into a coalition government dealing with Chinese Communism. In 1959, after he has met with Mao, he must then make the decision between staying in Tibet to fight for his people's freedom or fleeing the country to save his own life.
The young Dalai Lama is raised to be the spiritual leader of a country that will, for all practical purposes, cease to be while he is still a young man, having been annexed by the Chinese government. The movie shows the torment the Dalai Lama feels being in the middle of political arguments he cares for so very little. Throughout the entire movie, the Dalai Lama struggles not with his faith, but simply with his destiny.
This movie typifies religions of today. China is still a communist nation, predominately Buddhist, which deals heavily with the plot of this movie. Buddhism is a large religion and according to [...], there are is an estimated 300 million to 1 billion Buddhist. The central theme of this movie along with the Buddhist religion is non-violence. The vivid scenes of the numerous dead monks show that although the theme is peace, violence runs ramped in the world now. Many violent acts are being classified as religious causes.
DVD Review: Kundun
Summary: 5 Stars
Kundun is story of His Holiness Fourteenth Dalai Lama an his life.This movie show his experience with violent Chinese occupation,but he still follow nonviolence respond.
Tibetan monks give a two-year-old boy a series of tests. He proves to them that he is the fourteenth reincarnation of the Buddha of love and compassion. The boy is taken away to be trained by monks and scholars for his role as Tibet's spiritual and political leader.
From childhood until his exile as an adult, 14th Dalai Lama deals with upheavals and Chinese oppression. This crisis leads officials in the Tibetan government to vest the Dalai Lama with temporal power in order to quell the fears of the populace. In a brief encounter with Mao, the young Tibetan leader recognizes that his society of spirit and nonviolence clashes with China's culture of materialism and militarism.This presentation of the childhood and adolescence of the fourteenth Dalai Lama is memorable mainly for its moral message about the courage it takes to adhere to the Buddhist principle of nonviolence in the face of so much suffering and injustice.In this mouve the Dalai Lama is a true hero of peace.
Movie showed beautiful Tibetans temples and life of young monks.
DVD Review: Kundun Review
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie shows the time known as the "discovery" period for the then Dalai Lama.
This movie also shows the Dalai Lama to have been reincarnated of Buddha himself. In efforts to make certain that this Dalai Lama was the "right one," the Buddhist monks took him through a series of test that allow him to identify items that had previously belonged to the previous Dalai Lama. The test that they had set forth had proved to be true when began shouting, "Mine, Mine, Mine!" At that point they were certain that they this young boy was in fact the next Dalai Lama also known as Kundun. The film charts the extraordinary growth of Dalai Lama from a giggling child into a world leader who raised the global consciousness about the Buddhist society, and the plight of Tibet and its people. While growing up the Dalai Lama had been taught at all cost to avoid violence. His belief in non-violence never waivered, even while facing brutality. Even with his strong faith, there was never a compromise when it came to conflicts between faith and politics. The Dalai Lama had been born into a troubled 20th century. As he grew up, he often had to watch films of other atrocities around the world. This lead him to wonder how other cultures could not embrace peace as he thought others should. But then China, under Mao's chairmanship, decides to assert its power and take Tibet for itself, knowing full well that the peaceful Tibetans will not defend themselves with the use of violence. China initially appears to be a moderate conqueror, asking only for cooperation, but when the Dalai Lama meets with Mao, the truth of China's intentions becomes evident. And it's not a truth that's acceptable to Tibet. The occupation by China and its associated oppression and cultural destruction goes on to this day. The Dalai Lama depicted in Kundun still lives in exile in India, still hoping to be able to one day return to a free Tibet. This story is, after all, a familiar one, one nation imposing its will, by force, on another. But while the horrors and injustices of World War 2 have been at least partially rectified, Tibet still suffers under occupation when, to put it in simple terms, all they wanted was to be left alone.
Description of Kundun
Praised as one of the best films of the year, KUNDUN is a motion picture masterpiece directed by five-time Academy Award(R)-nominated director Martin Scorsese. It's the incredible true story of one of the world's most fascinating leaders -- Tibet's Dali Lama and his daring struggle to rule a nation at one of the most challenging times in its history. Powerfully told and set against a backdrop of world politics -- the film's release created an international uproar! Featuring a striking Oscar(R)-nominated score by renowned composer Philip Glass, this extraordinary motion picture has been greeted with both controversy and worldwide acclaim -- experience it for yourself!It would be a mistake to call Kundun a disappointment, or a film that director Martin Scorsese was not equipped to create. Both statements may be true to some viewers, but they ignore the higher purpose of Scorsese's artistic intention and take away from a film that is by any definition unique. In chronicling the life of the 14th Dalai Lama, Kundun defies conventional narrative in favor of an episodic approach, presenting a sequential flow of events from the life of the young leader of Buddhist Tibet. From the moment he is recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama in 1937 to his exile from Tibet in the wake of China's invasion, the Dalai Lama is seen as an enlightened spiritual figurehead. This gives the film its tone of serenity and reverence but denies us the privilege of admiring the Dalai Lama as a fascinating human character. There's a sense of mild detachment between the film and its audience, but its visual richness offers ample compensation. In close collaboration with cinematographer Roger Deakins, Scorsese filmed Kundun with great pageantry and ritual, and meticulous attention to details of costume, color, and the casting of actual Buddhist monks in the scenes at the Dalai Lama's palace. Certain images will linger in the memory for a long time, such as the Dalai Lama's nightmarish vision of standing among hundreds of dead monks, their lives sacrificed in pacifist defiance of Chinese aggression. Is this a film you'll want to watch repeatedly? Perhaps not. But as a political drama and an elegant gesture of devotion, Kundun is a film of great value and inspirational beauty--one, after all, that perhaps only Scorsese could have made. --Jeff Shannon
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