Little Budda Movie Review

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Movie review “Little Buddha” This movie shows the journey of a group of Buddhist monks looking for the reincarnation of their former teacher Lama Dorje. Their journey leads them to an American family with a little boy named Jesse who they believed could possibly be the reincarnation of him. Jesse was not an obvious candidate of the reincarnation of Lama Dorje. He was a white American boy from Seattle. This shows us that someone can be reincarnated into a completely different person in another lifetime. Other people would probably assume that the teacher would have been reincarnated into another male Buddhist, when in fact, another one of the candidates happened to be a little girl named Gita. There is no exact form of person one will be reincarnated into. One can be transformed into whatever race and gender. In this movie Dean, Jesse’s father experiences the loss of a loved one, Dean does not believe in reincarnation and struggles with this death. One of the Buddhist monks explains reincarnation to him very well to help him understand better. He filled a cup with tea and then dropped it and the cup broke, the tea then dripped onto the table and then to the floor. He explained that although the tea was no longer in the glass cup, it went onto the table and onto the floor still being tea. It did not matter which container it was in it was still the same tea that was inside of the cup. The tea symbolizes the “spirit” of the person who has passed. It does not matter what body they are reborn into, they are still the same “spirit”. It isn’t clear what Dean’s beliefs are or if they had changed by the end of the movie but it is obvious that he feels differently about death and isn’t so deeply afflicted by it. I fortunately haven’t experienced the loss of anyone close to me but I would imagine that if it were me in Dean’s place

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