Long but engrossing

Rating: Null/10 (23 November 2002)

I watched this film in the state of mind that I watch "City of Angels" or anything else that is more feeling than plot or action - taking a breath and letting the peace fill me up. Yes, Brad Pitt's, and all the rest of the European characters', accents were annoying, but overlook that to watch someone begin to find peace, only to have the horror of war revisited on him; and worse, on a people who haven't experienced it in modern history (I'm assuming, you never hear about Tibet in a war, but my knowledge of Asian history is woefully weak). And, because I didn't know what was coming, I felt the shock and invasion of the Chinese along with the peaceful Tibetans. This film has made me want to learn much more.