Best movie I've seen in this century (21th)

Rating: 10/10 (18 June 2007)

This movie has a lot of power to change my life. It helped me through the deepest state of heroin withdrawal, helped me to survive and gave me hope and motivation to live! Thank you Dan Millman, Victor Salva and Nick Nolte, Scott Mechlowitz, Amy Smart and all of the crew. I have read the book, before I saw the movie, but I found that the movie contains in a more compact and more powerful way the essence of the teaching the "here and now". I found the book a bit too talkative after seeing the movie. Scott Mechlowitz as Dan Millman is almost as good choice as Nick Nolte as Socrates. Both of them play brilliant and genuinely their part.
As a zen practicer I am, I found that every word of Socrates and Joy, is pure, genuine and clean zen teaching even though it isn't said that the movie is zen. Excellent way to teach zen, if the teacher doesn't say it is zen. If it was said, maybe some people would be frightened away from this movie. Though zen is not a religion, some doesn't think that, and don't like "religious" movies. The word "buddha" is mentioned only twice, in humorous context. In every context, every way and from any point of view, this is a great and life-changing movie. I can only recommend to everyone!!!! (sorry, if my English is poor!)