Is it designed to paint a positive picture of chinas occupation of tibet. The film concludes with the news good, if true that kekexili is now an official nature reserve and the tibetan antelope thrives again. Kekexili, the largest wildlife reserve in china, is home to many rare species. A mountain patrol struggles to save antelopes from. The tibetan mountain patrol, a selfsponsored outcast regimen established to eliminate illegal slaughtering of endangered tibetan antelopes by impoverished local and outofprovince peasants, intimately engages with a halftibetan journalist from beijing in a desolate depiction of human nature in the outskirts of kekexili. Kekexili mountain patrol trailer for hec mba chinese culture week, movie night on 10th february 2009.
Kekexili takes place on the remote tibetan plateau, the kekexili, four miles above sea level where there is a voluntary mountain patrol employed to keep. These are hard, violent men, risking their lives to save an. Kekexili 2004 film for free as part of our trial offer. 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. Mountain patrol from awardwinning international action director lu chuan comes the dramatic adventure of mountain patrol kekexili. Le film mountain patrol 2004 vostfr admin 20170406t21. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. In the 1990s, a tiny group of tibetan activists struggle to stop the poaching of the. Despite the sporadic film school allusions, mountain patrol has its own very specific take on things. Watch full episode of kekexili mountain patrol chinese. The film opens with the summary execution of a patrol member by poachers and then follows, in quasidocumentary style, reporter ga yu played by zhang lei who is sent from beijing to investigate. When photojournalist ga yu zhang lei arrives at the kekexili mountain patrol camp, they are mourning the death of.
From awardwinning international action director lu chuan comes the dramatic adventure of mountain patrol kekexili. In kekexili he meets ritai played by tibetan actor tobgyal, or duo bujie in mandarin at the sky burial of the deceased patrol member. Mountain patrol is a chinese film, which raises questions that are hard to answer. It was inspired by the documentary balance by peng hui.
Kekexili charts one local moment in the global clash between capitalism and conservation. Mountain patrol, peppered with shocking revelations of just how suddenly and brutally death can come calling, has the look and feel of a documentary. Mountain patrol is a 2004 film by chinese director lu chuan that depicts the struggle between vigilante rangers and bands of poachers in the remote tibetan region of kekexili. The nissan armada mountain patrol aims squarely at the adventure and overland crowd.
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