[Buddha-l] Film: The AngryMonk http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/the-angry-monk/

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 >> Schaedler clearly has an agenda with this film to push his own ideal of
a free Tibet. What he overlooks, however, is that the monks and the nuns and
the monasteries are also an integral part of Tibetan culture. 
Before Buddhism came to Tibet, Tibet was historically a feared and
war-mongering country that frequently raided other countries. The history of
Tibet itself is very much about the pull of violence on one side and peace
on the other. Schaedler could have done more justice to an overall
perspective on Tibetan culture in the film by not deliberately excluding the
point of view of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama or from Tibetan Buddhist monks
and scholars with a different perspective than the scholars he chose to
interview, who all, oddly enough, mirror Schaedler's own views on the
necessity of preventing Tibetan culture from "stagnating".

In his zest to make a different kind of documentary about Tibet, Schaedler
goes too far in showing only the point of view that bolsters his own
opinion, which ultimately weakens the film. As a result, Angry Monk becomes
less a film about Gendun Choephel, the monk, the man, and the scholar, and
more a film that uses Choephel's life as a metaphor to drive Schaedler's
view on the politics of Tibet. <<

The above is taken from Kim Voynar's "Sundance Review" of the film "The
Angry Monk" - the full review is here: 
http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=12,2214,0,0,1,0

Curt Steinmetz
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