This movie is really uplifting
Added 10/8/2009
Of course, (no pun intended) I am not into golf. But this movie is not really about golf. It is about how playing golf is like the way we "play out" life. Loved it. Some great sound bites to take along with you as you work at this consciousness we call "life".
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Getting Tuned
Added 9/4/2009
This is about picking up the "lost signal" (returning to last known good configuration in certain geekspeak). Fun and professionally done. Recommend
highly for those able to "hear".
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Great movie - bad language
Added 8/15/2009
This was a great story & Matt Damon, Will Smith, & especially the little boy gave outstanding performances. However, I was disappointed by the unnecessary use of foul language.
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I LOVED IT!
Added 7/4/2009
I don't play golf, wish I did, but I loved the film. It's more a spiritual film than a film about golf, as it could have been about baseball or some other sport, but golf fit the bill. As much as I love Matt Damon, I adored Will Smith as his caddy/spiritual teacher. Great film, a joyful film. Whether you play golf or not, you shouldn't miss it. Jack Lemmon did the narration and did the bit part at the end.
I read this somewhere, and it's interesting. Leave it to Robert Redford to use it:
"Bagger Vance" and "R. Junuh" are representations of Bhagavan (Krishna) and Arjuna, from the Hindu text "The Bhagavad Gita". The lessons learned by Rannulph are loosely based on those Krishna teaches to Arjuna while masquerading as his lowly chariot driver."
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The game of life
Added 7/4/2009
Wiston Churchill said "Golf is a more expensive way of playing marbles". I agree.
Yet I loved the movie.
This is not a movie about golf. Golf is merely a backdrop and used as an inflection point to talk about leading your life. Bagger Vance (Will Smith) counsels a confused, lost Randolph Junnah (Matt Damon) on discovering himself, pulling himself back, and leading a full life.
This movie is beautifully adapted from a book of the same name. And the book in turn is an interpretation of the Bhagvad Gita, which is an 18-part poem within the Hindu epic - Mahabharata. In the Gita, the confused warrior Arjuna (R. Junnah!!) is advised by his charioteer Krishna on the meaning of life.
What shines through the movie are a couple of things -
-- The director's love for the game. You can feel the sheer delight in golf seeping thru and infecting you as you watch the movie
-- The performance of every single actor/actress in this movie are a cut above anything else they have done. Will Smith has perhaps given his best performance ever.
This is a movie you can watch over and over again.
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This movie is really uplifting
Added 10/8/2009
Of course, (no pun intended) I am not into golf. But this movie is not really about golf. It is about how playing golf is like the way we "play out" life. Loved it. Some great sound bites to take along with you as you work at this consciousness we call "life".
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Getting Tuned
Added 9/4/2009
This is about picking up the "lost signal" (returning to last known good configuration in certain geekspeak). Fun and professionally done. Recommend
highly for those able to "hear".
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Great movie - bad language
Added 8/15/2009
This was a great story & Matt Damon, Will Smith, & especially the little boy gave outstanding performances. However, I was disappointed by the unnecessary use of foul language.
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