Movie Review - Mongol

Based on a recommendation from my brother Frank and his wife Cheryl, I watched a Chinese movie about Genghis Khan.  Now, I only recommend this movie to you if you like movies with subtitles.....but even if you don't like movies with subtitles, you might like this movie, as this is a BEAUTIFUL movie!  Reminded me of the sweeping beauty that was also Dances with Wolves.....but was not like Dances with Wolves at all.....now I have to say, I know very little about Genghis Khan, only that he was very violent.  However this movie does not show him in that light.  This is a movie that begins with him as a boy, and takes him to the beginning of his reign (which possibly was a reign of terror, but you would not know that from THIS movie).  His father died, possibly of natural causes, but could have been poisoned by an enemy.  After his father died, the men in his tribe tried to kill him (he was 10 years old), and he found a way to escape.  Throughout this movie, he was captured, enslaved (several times) and he found a way to escape....he picked his bride at 10, and according to this movie, all of the choices he made was to help him unite with her and to protect his family.  They portray him to be very devoted to his wife, and that she gave him very good counsel, and that he was a devoted protector of his family and his people.  In this movie he seemed to have a very gentle spirit.  Now this does not mesh with what we know from our history books, and who is to say who is the REAL Genghis Khan?  The one thing he had in common with most people who go down in history as "great", is that he had a lot of suffering in his life, had to endure a lot of hardship, which actually strengthened him.  This is what I have to learn....to not complain about my minor "miseries", and not to run and hide from the trials life brings, but to use these things to make me a better and stronger person.  I am coming to learn that most of the historical figures I have admired (no Genghis Khan is not one of them), were very flawed human beings, with lots of "baggage", who had many trials they had to overcome.  That weakness, failure and setbacks are not necessarily the things that define your life, but can be the things that strengthen you to become more than you would have been without them!  Every single person God has used to do great things falls in this category, (no one was more flawed than King David, and yet God said he had a heart after His own heart).  I am learning God does not expect perfection out of me, and that my expectation of perfection of myself is probably holding me back from obtaining the best God has to offer me....wow.....pretty profound for a review of a Chinese movie!