Self-deception and self-destruction

Rating: 5/10 (2 August 2017)

The two main themes of this film, that time is illusion and that communication is essential to peace, are fundamental to Buddhism. But, while Buddhism is popular in China, this film misrepresents Chinese communication, and also how members of the United States Army communicate with one another, and how our television reporters report news. The Chinese people, speaking Mandarin or Cantonese or any other dialect, didn't indicate pronunciation in writing until the Chinese government developed a system of transliteration into the Roman Alphabet in the twentieth century. But the film says that writing every human language indicates pronunciation, ignoring that every Chinese word is a one-syllable name for a picture, a picture that doesn't independently indicate pronunciation. And the film also blames China for the main failure to communicate it portrays and says, contrary to the last past decade of the history of Earth, that Russia is in cahoots with China. You can talk with a soldier and watch news on television to see other discrepancies in the film's communication. But most of us prefer the Greco/Roman and Judeo/Christian/Islamic ignorant bigotry of sports. HITRT