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Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (Tibetan 2004) by Chuan Lu - cranefly - 01-26-2015
As far as I know, DM doesn’t have Tibetan blood in him. So why does everyone in this movie look like DM? Lady Cranefly and I both kept seeing the resemblance.
But on with the story: A good way to totally mess up someone’s lifestyle is to tell them that something in their backyard is worth a ton of money. That’s what happened to the Tibetans. Suddenly roving bands of poachers are wiping out entire herds of antelope for their valuable pelts. So disruptive is this to the Tibetan lifestyle that it forces more and more Tibetans to take up poaching as the only way to survive. The few village elders trying to protect the antelopes are greatly outnumbered and outgunned.
A journalist from Beijing travels to Tibet to document this wholesale slaughter and gets caught up in a very dangerous patrol operation.
It’s a rather depressing story, but with a feel-good ending in the real world: the movie’s positive reception swayed the Chinese government to commit equipment and patrols to help protect the antelope. From what I understand, the herd populations have now stabilized.
All in all, with its ethereal mountain vistas, topnotch cinematography, and the unbearable likeness of Gene, the movie is very much worth watching.
I am often mistaken for a Tibetan - Drunk Monk - 01-27-2015
For a while, I used to say I was Tibetan just to mess with old white people who asked about my ethnicity just to make polite conversation.