ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

izztek I read the novel Siddhartha and found it to be a very interesting, and good book.In class today, we watched this film. It was just awful. Everyone in the class was laughing every five minutes because of how terrible both the acting and filming was.The filming is dreadful. One second you'll see Siddhartha talking, and then it will randomly transition into some five second scene of a bird flying, or someone saying something random and irrelevant to the plot.There is a scene where Kamala gets bit by a snake--you don't even see the snake bite her. You just see her scream this ear-piercing and unnatural scream and fall to the ground--it was possibly the worst acting of any scene in any movie I've ever seen.Seriously, this movie is awful. I read the book and loved it, so did many of my AP Literature classmates, but not a single person in the room enjoyed the movie--they all laughed because of how terrible and random it was.Siddhartha searched to find the realms of enlightenment--this movie searched the realms of stupidity and terrible acting, and succeeded.

wildzero If you loved the book by Hermann Hesse, you will most likely love this film. At times, it seems rather disjointed - almost as though I had blinked and missed a scene. I really consider this film to be a great companion to a great book. I am curious to know what people who had not read the book would think of this film.

gabravo123 After seeing this movie again in New York recently and noticing that it was going to be available on DVD, I ordered it immediately through Amazon.com and decided to send the following comments, which were posted in the "customer reviews" section:1. The plot. The Nobel Prize winner, Hermann Hesse, wrote Siddhartha in 1922. It is a novel about Eastern spirituality (many Indian scholars consider it as one of the few successful examples of Indian philosophy presented by a Western author). Siddhartha is one of the names given to the Buddha himself. The novel narrates the pilgrimage of the son of a Brahmin, his struggle to find his own destiny; his friendship with Govinda (his "shadow"); his encounters with many different people: the Samanas (the ascetics that practice self-denial); Kamala (a courtesan who claims that she can teach and provide love as an art); Kamasawami (a rich merchant who becomes his boss); and Vasudeva... - note Vasudeva is another name given to Krishna, the teacher/driver of Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gita). 2. The Movie. In 1972, Conrad Rooks (an almost unknown movie director who made "Chappaqua" in 1966) came out with a 94-minute movie transcription of Hesse's novel. He engaged Sven Nykvist (the famous Swedish cinematographer of Igmar Bergman) and a mainly Indian cast, including Shashi Kapoor (Siddhartha), Simi Garewal (Kamala), Romesh Sharma (Govinda) and Zul Vellani (Vasudeva). The beautiful music was composed by Hemanta Mukherjee (I hope the soundtrack will be available soon). It will be particularly enjoyable for those who have read the book. In many of the scenes the synergism produced by the photography, the music and the acting is superb. And with few exceptions, the movie is a good transcription of the book. The book and the movie became part of the "cult culture" of the West coast of the early seventies, but it never got the attention of the general public. With a condescending tone, Leonard Maltin refers to the movie as "too arty, but on-location photography ... is often dazzling".After seeing the DVD transfer I was very happy with its high quality. There are 27 interesting minutes of comments made by Conrad Rooks about why and how he made the movie 30 years ago. With the DVD technology I am able to enjoy my favorite scenes and particularly the music of Hemanta Mukherjee on texts from another Nobel Prize, Rabindranath Tagore. Because of these unforgettable moments, I give a rating of 10, absolving Rooks from his "youth sins".

morales2 The theme of siddharta, is the very special searching of meaning of life. The movie even in some ways can be better than the book,because give the viewers more imagination about the representation of the agony looking for the meaning of life. Siddhartha is a brahaman, so is a man with great wealth, is not a simple ignorant person looking for the meaning of life. He renounces all the wealthiest things to look for the real treasures of life,that is the metaphisican undertanding of life. The movie for somebody that is familiar with esoterism has a lot of meaning,for the general public:"We never see the transformation and....-comment of Canberra,Australia-"; not understanding at all.