Hi everyone
As a matter of interest, has anyone seen "The Road"?
http://www.theroad-movie.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
If so, what did you think?
No spoilers please! If it doesn't come down to Tasmania, I might have to wait until its out on DVD which could be a while!
kind regards
Ben
The Road
The Road
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
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Re: The Road
I thought it was very good. Faithful to the book, so if you "enjoyed" that, then you will like the film. Viggo Mortensen is excellent, and the relationship between father and son, which IS the story, is wonderfully portrayed. I took much more from it than from the flashy Avatar, but it's all down to what floats your boat I guess.
I also liked the ambiguous ending. It's your call really. Heartily
recommended.
I also liked the ambiguous ending. It's your call really. Heartily
recommended.
Re: The Road
Loved the book, looking forward to seeing this.
metta
Jack
metta
Jack
"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:
'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta
Path Press - Ñāṇavīra Thera Dhamma Page - Ajahn Nyanamoli's Dhamma talks
'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta
Path Press - Ñāṇavīra Thera Dhamma Page - Ajahn Nyanamoli's Dhamma talks
Re: The Road
Viggo may not have ever killed a man before but he's certainly killed his share of orcs! 
Four types of letting go:
1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things
- Ajahn Brahm
1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things
- Ajahn Brahm