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Odd Coincidence w Little Buddha

posted 7 years ago by xwolven
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In the movie Little Buddha Keanu Reeves (Sidhartha) has very much the exact battle in his mind with Mara as he does here with Satan/Al Pacino, and in the final battle, Al Pacino becomes a mirror reflection of Keanue trying to tempt him even further. But I especially loved the very final scene where Keanu Flashes back to the Mirror and we realize that the whole battle was just one of many that occur in every mans conscience when confronted with decisions between right and wrong. And while Keanu follows his conscience and does the Right thing, right afterward he faces Satan again appearing as the Reporter who wants to praise Keanu's Ego, and appeal to his Vanity. Brilliant Ending!

But that battle is almost potrayed exactly the same in Little Buddha as Siddhartha battles Mara and his own ego.

[–] nishivijay 7 years ago

Satan had a point.

Before Reeves sin was vanity but he was using it to justify winning lawyer cases that set child molesters free onto the world... make it hard on society, and that social effect makes the wins more costly.

But he did it because he was vein.

At the end of the film the prodigal son (or child prodigy, genius at a certain craft, from a certain angle, not the meaningless just i tiny bit smarter overall genius, but the guy that's naturally a genius at a job giving him leverage) uses his vanity to speak AGAINST child molestation and that is why the devil is so smug....

His baby boy may have daddy issues but his beautiful creation is becoming less costly.

So it's that this vanity is a more purified sin is why the devil was smug.

His performance in Little Buddha was comparable to the performance of Kingsley as the Mahatma or "Great Soul" in Ghandi but I don't really remember the scene in question that I could comment on it so vividly. I think it was a woman temping him with sex in the mental plane and he resisted that one but I don't quite remember how it went down to compare. Another great performance though.

I think that one was about resisting desire that would bring into question equanimity or unbiasedness, but I am unsure and could even be completely off.