Masterful Movie
Just so...so bad
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
View MoreClose shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
View MoreSamsara, a Sanskrit word, means birth, life and death. I think this is a documentary that focuses on three loops and creates an incredible atmosphere. Music and breathtaking images are accompanied by questioning our lives and almost silent screaming. We continue our routine life. Instead of going through this cycle, we continue. Rather than thinking about what is happening, we keep our routines alive. Instead of pursuing our own dreams, we are doing nothing but realizing the dreams of other people. We do not know how to live peacefully and peacefully. We are losing ourselves to earthly affairs, breaking each other, killing, we condemn. Some people can not make money when there is peace and tranquility in this world. I believe that the people who watch Baraka and Samsara will differentiate their views of life.
View MoreThere's no words but your own. You are the narrator. You are provided with amazing scenery and beautiful music. It's your job to tell the story. I didn't think a film could be used as an instrument of meditation until now. This is no form of entertainment. This the diary of mankind and you are the individual in charge of the judgment.
View MoreSamsara has no voice-over, but it speaks volumes. It's cleverly constructed, drawing visual queues and combining completely different subjects, which will make your mind make up the compliments and critique it has to make. Samsara starts and never holds back, and it has left me in awe.
View MoreImmense! This movie shows us things we're familiar with and things we have never even imagined, and yet it all comes from somewhere in our home, on our planet, within our environment. Framed by Buddhist philosophy and art, we have a god's-eye-view of all continents, all classes, so many cultures and vastly different terrains. We see the endless desert- scape, we see Cairo, the United States, China, Tibet, indigenous peoples of South America, the architecture of Rome, the worshippers of Mecca. We see various trades, the wounded, the dead, families, contrasting political and social agendas. We are left with a feeling of bittersweet grandiosity, the way that Buddhism leaves its adherents. Pain exists, we may never get rid of it. Maybe violence cannot solve violence. Maybe the path of progress is a lot slower than most of us think, maybe the only solution is to take on this weighty all-encompassing compassion that this movie offers up, and pray that it spreads by example and because it is the most virtuous and inevitable way. That's the magic of this movie, that it does not look down on anyone, it seeks to document everyone as they would be documented, and yet there is editorializing, however subtle it is: that we all have the nobility of consciousness, and we are all each as consequential as a fleck of sand upon the Sahara.
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