Seven Years In Tibet

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In my movie, “Seven Years in Tibet”, we follow the journey of an Austrian native named Heinrich Harrer. This movie was based on the true events of his life and is based off of the book he wrote, in which he detailed the experiences. The movie features the unlikely friendship between Heinrich and the Dalai Lama, after a series of enthralling and treacherous events lead Harrer to Lhasa, the Holy home of the Dalai Lama. Although the movie stays almost completely accurate to the true history, however there are some blunders that slipped through the cracks. To start with the largest error, almost immediately into the movie there had been a grand inaccuracy. After the film had been released it was found that it was missing a crucial piece …show more content…

By the laws of the land no one was allowed to address the Dalai Lama, Heinrich mentions this when he talks about their first contact. Both men had a love and passion for photography. “ The Dalai Lama was an ardent photographer, and it was photography which brought the first contact between us.” (My Seven Years). The Dalai Lama owned a 16 mm. Movie camera, which Heinrich talks about using often as he traveled around the city and its surrounding area. This was the stepping stones to the great friendship between the two that would come. After awhile of using the camera, the Dalai Lama sent a request to Heinrich to build him a cinema so that he may watch the films that he had taken overtime. Heinrich wrote about this in his book, stating “After having completed the cinema, I was entrusted by the Dalai Lama with handling the projector and showing him the films. And that was the beginning of a real friendship between the fifteen-year-old ruler and myself. I soon found myself teaching him geography, mathematics and English. He was extremely intelligent and eager to learn about our way of living.“ (My Seven Years). The movie did an excellent job of showing this beginning to the pair's friendship. It is not cited that like in the movie the citizens of Lhasa took careful measure to pull the worms out of the ground, one could imagine though since the Holy city had many laws residing around love, peace, and safety for

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