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Mountain Patrol (Kekelixi)
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List Price: $19.94
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Zhang Lei, Duobuji, Qi Liang, Xueying Zhao, Ma Zhanlin
Directed By: Chuan Lu
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396149250
Format: AC-3
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 2006-08-29
Running Time: 90
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Inspired by a peoples remarkable mission this film follows a journalist through the dangerous mountains of tibet documenting a group of vigilantes chasing antelope poachers. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/27/2008 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Pg13
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Summary: A gripping, morally wrenching film
Comment: Over the past decade, many simply marvellous, award-winning films have come out of China, to include "Postmen in the Mountains," "The Road Home," and many, many others - and this one!
If you are anticipating coming out of this one with a morally uplifting spirit, do not. This a a story based on actual events in Tibet, and the events, especially the climax, will "get to you." One thing you will experience is the utter desolation of Tibet, and in truth, it is something to behold. My wife and I visited Tibet in 2007, and I was the first westerner to travel on the new two-day train from Chengdu to Lhasa, an experience I would not trade for much of anything.
This film will leave you with mixed emotions, but among them will be some positive feelings about the true nature of the Chinese and Tibetan people, and the struggles they endure to live and work in a very inhospitable environment, as well as some of their environmental sensitivities.
I highly recommend this DVD to anyone who wants to truly "experience" a film. A great story, and some truly fine cinematic work!
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Summary: it's a moving, beautiful, but cruel, uncaring deadly world
Comment: I'm interested in Tibet, if a movie dvd box has Tibet on the front i'll at least pick it up and read the back. I was uncertain if i would like the movie from reading the blurb on the back, but i was willing to give it a chance. It exceeded expectations and is an excellent movie despite the poor description on the dvd box. The best thing to increase sales and rentals of this movie is to first-rewrite that box.
It can be best described as a terminally sad movie, sad for the people of Tibet, for the antelope on the high dry cold plains, for the world for standing by as Tibet's inheritance is machine gunned down, stripped and shipped off to make some rich person's collar or gloves leaving the people even more impoverished, cold, hungry and dying.
The only heroes die; painful, often solitary, always cruel and ultimately useless and meaningless deaths. Mirroring the frozen ground's burden of was-pregnant(there could have been hope) but now just red rib cages and dangling legs(stark, mindnumbingly counted and finally burned), the people seem as cruel, as uncaring, as empty as the Tibetan plain swept by winds, seared by the cold, hiding death everywhere.
Even those that fight the death dealing poachers are sadly at best just standing their ground, unpaid, begging for food and gas from those even worse off then they are. Most are like the Tibetans hired to butcher the antelope and skin them, just trying to live in a harsh, unforgiving, bleak world that seems unaware of their efforts and their very existence.
The movie is about making the destruction of the Tibetan people, their culture, and the land that supports them, real and palatable to those far away, but yet often intimately involved (where do the furs ultimately end up?, the Tibetan's don't wear expensive furs). I didn't see any hope in the movie, it was more like a run away tank that no one can stop but the best are trying to slow it down with their bodies under the tracks, but it doesn't really deflect let alone stop the juggernaut, it just speeds along destroying. It's a broken system, full of broken people who are just trying to survive, in the midst of an uncaring world that is being impoverished even more by their efforts. It is a moving movie, anyone unmoved by tears is simply dead inside, but one asking serious questions without really trying to answer any of them.
It is worth watching, but don't expect to leave with much implanted or imparted positive energy to rise up and tackle tough problems, or maybe i just took the quicksand death too seriously ignoring the facts at the end that the army is now fighting the poachers and the herds have greatly increased in the last few years, your call.
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Summary: One of the Greatest Films of All Time
Comment: Yes, that's right, one of the greatest films of all time. Haunting. Important. It addresses so many issues of the human, animal, and natural condition that it is an endless series of questions. But in all this, there are those who stand against the storm, and in this may lie the lesson.
Each of us must do what we do because it is right. This is what I get from this great film. You might find something else I completely missed. I am sure, though, that you will find something important to you in this film.
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Summary: Astounding
Comment: This movie has some of the best camera work and aesthetic qualities I've seen in a movie of this nature. The starkness of the landscape is captured in such a rich fashion. This film is right up there with Eric Valli's "Himalaya" in it's treatment of the Himalayas.
The quality of films coming out with Tibet and the Himalayas as their setting and subject has been improving greatly over the past few years. I hope we see much more in the future!
I read a review of the film (I think it was in Phayul) that criticized the film for being guilty of perpetuating an anti-romanticized view of Tibetan life. One of savagery and hardship. However, I'm inclined to disagree, though I can see where one might come to that conclusion. I think the film mainly uses the setting as a vehicle to make a statement about the duality of nature in general and man's place within it, and not just in Tibet. How it can be at once very majestic and beautiful, and yet also savage and unforgiving.
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Summary: Beautiful and effective movie on Tibetan wildlife, its protectors and the poachers
Comment: Beautiful if grim view of men relation to wildlife in Tibet and China. Kekexili has a very effective aesthetics, devoid of slow motion and other overused special effects.
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