Unmistaken Child (W/ English subtitles) 2008 (6-11) A Documentary film

Unmistaken Child documents another world. It is a world
where events that seem to be the products of belief are
actually experienced. A deceased saint chooses to be
reincarnated; his devoted assistant is asked to locate a
child whose body is now inhabited by the saint. Worlds of
knowledge that most of us call superstition are brought into
play. What is most astounding is that everyone involved in
this challenge agrees that the mission and the saint
himself, in whatever form he appears, are sacred, and that
finding and bringing him to recognition is, as the young
assistant says, "a thousand times more important" than
anything else.
Nati Baratz, the Israeli filmmaker responsible for this
amazing movie, started out to make a film about a group of
Tibetan Jews. That he was drawn into filming the search for
the reincarnated saint and willing to devote over five years
of work to that effort is testimony to the power of
attraction presented by the monks whose search is
documented. That some of the highest spiritual leaders alive
today, including the Dalai Lama, allowed Mr. Baratz and his
crew to film their intimate meetings and sacred rituals
testifies additionally to the deep trust these leaders
invested in the filmmaker.
We the audience can only watch, perhaps in disbelief,
perhaps in reverence of the devotion to task - both the task
of locating the reincarnated saint and the task of filming
the arduous search. Nothing is asked of us as we watch
events unfold. Detail by detail, everything is revealed in
its own time. Baratz patiently shows us another way of
being, one that challenges and at the same time embraces our
Western logic driven frame of reference.
Is this film evidence that those who hold the great
spiritual knowledge of the East are willing at last to share
their knowledge with us? Or are we simply being shown the
chasm that divides us from that knowledge? Has the time come
for humanity to awaken from its eternity of sleep? Or are we
simply being shown another cultural reality? These are some
of the questions viewers might ponder after seeing
Unmistaken Child.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Tibet
• reincarnation
• guru
• master
• documentary
• foreign country
• journey
• unmistaken child
• new life
• buddha
• buddhists
• silence
• shiva
• god
• ritual
• aum
• om
• aum mani padme hum
• india
• south india
• north india
• nepal

[ulvund]

"Keep him clean" What does that mean?

[wooferblogger1]

@ulvund.. keep him clean from all impurities

[ShamrockerIRA]

@ShamrockerIRA I hope that's not bad karma.

[biggmoneyme]

@ShamrockerIRA im wit u there



[ShamrockerIRA]

The hand of the adult male was clearly guiding the boys hand on the first two picks, no?