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This is a Bertolucci movie so it will naturally have his style. This is a different story so it should be told differently
from his other films. In my opinion this is his best. It is based on a true story; this means he did not wake up in the middle
of the night with a radical idea. The story is used not only for the individual incident but as an allegory for today’s Tibetan
(there are many other types) Buddhist way of thought. These are not two parallel stories in contrast. With out one the
other makes no sense. The section in Seattle is filtered in blue; I may have some deeper meaning; I see the blue filtered
scenes as the superficial environment. These differences help with the description of impermanence. The Selection of actors
is excellent.. You do not want the actor personalities to overshadow the character. It is too late for me. I will always think
of Siddhartha as looking like Keanu Reeves. Just as with Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments “, the film story does
not actually follow the written story of Siddhartha. However, as this is the one that I watch, therefore I will always think
of this when some one mentions Buddha.
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