
Rev. Jay McCormick led this group discussion about this month’s movie, Seven Years In Tibet.
This biographical war drama set in Tibet in 1944 after World War II, prior to and leading up to China’s invasion of Tibet in 1950 stars Brad Pitt and David Thewlis as two friends mountaineering in British India. Due to their German citizenship they are imprisoned by the British in a POW camp. They manage a daring escape from the prison, and cross the border into Tibet, traversing the treacherous high plateau. While in Tibet, after initially being ordered to return to India, they are welcomed at the holy city of Lhasa, and become absorbed into an unfamiliar way of life. They meet the 14th Dalai Lama, who is still a boy, and becomes their tutor! During their time together, the main character Heinrich becomes a close friend to the young spiritual leader.
Release date: 1997, Running time: 2 hr 16 minutes
Link to Play sheet for the movie: Read it here
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The movie is opens with a chance encounter between a young politician named David Norris, played by Matt Damon and a beautiful contemporary dancer named Elise, played by Emily Blunt. Their spark of romance is cut short unexpectedly by men in suits with supernatural powers. They intervene and deem that the romance to be ‘not in the script’, They take her phone number from David, so he has no way of contacting her. All romance seems lost until a rebellious member of the bureau decides to help David. A frantic chase insures with a surprising and wonderful plot twist at the very end. Join us in a discussion of this fun and heartwarming film, with deep spiritual undertones.
Join us for Movie Watcher’s Group on Sunday, May 26th at 8 pm ET / 5 pm, hosted by Rev. Jay McCormick. This month we will be watching the movie Dark City. In this neo-noir sci-fi thriller, the character John Murdoch find himself awakening in a hotel bathtub, suffering from amnesia. Following clues, he runs across a horrific murder and encounters pale men in trench coats with amazing powers. He gets entangled in a police case while exploring a dark, enigmatic city that seems to always be in night time. These ‘strangers’ in trench coats conduct experiments to discover what makes us ‘human’. John accidentally discovers hidden powers of his own mind which eventually lead to a face-off with the strangers who enslave the city. Join us to discover the many hidden and spiritual meanings in this mysterious, and thrilling sci fi classic. Staring Keifer Sutherland, Fufus Sewell, and William Hurt.


