The short film Karma portrays the belief that what goes around comes around. If you do something morally wrong, according to the Hindu and Buddhist teachings, it will come around to you in the end. Their teachings are more based on the reincarnation and where you will end up next, but it has come to be accepted that what you do here and now will come back to you in this life.
The concept of good and bad cannot be denied. We are all affected on a daily basis of by things that happen to us on both ends of the spectrum. But does one really have to live in fear of something inevitably bad coming back to them when he has done wrong to another? The rich don't seem to need to live up to this belief. I find it hard to accept that there is a force of good and evil, with no conscience state, which dictates all the is going to happen both good and bad. I do believe, based on our human instinctive (could this be that force?) that causes us to want to return evil with evil and good for good. If he treats me this way I will treat him likewise. But there are too many people who live based on religion, of which their religion teaches not to pay back evil with evil, but to win evil with good. Ghandi and Jesus are good examples of these teaching. Therefore these people would not be living according to this Karma (in this life). Ghandi and Jesus were both beaten and killed, but they did not live practicing evil.
Could the Karma of our next life be real? I personally do not believe so. But as for this short film, I think it is more based on the newer thought of Karma in this life and not on the reincarnation basis it is rooted in as a teaching.
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