Yuqi Kang's A Little Wisdom moves at the rhythmic of monastic life itself. Slow, meditative, measured, it regards the young boys, particularly the two precocious brothers at its core, at a Nepali Buddhist monastery as they play and fight, grow and learn. Actually it's mostly the fighting and playing--but that's the point. Instead of fully separating the boys from the world of sin, the monastery seems to have created one on a micro level, one they must navigate on their own. We realize this is a microcosm of the world in a Buddhist sense—full of pain, suffering, cruelty, but the truth (the Buddha way) surrounds them, if only they can see past the illusion of childish things. It's a nice film. A bit long an unfocused, though.
Rating: 7/10
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