Kekexili
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol. Whoever who missed this movie
should find a way to watch it. Why? Because Kekexili: Mountain Patrol is about
the Kekexili Mountain Patrol. Sounds very interesting right? OK, OK, It’s based
on a true story of the patrol, which was formed to save the soon to be extinct
Tibetan antelopes of Kekexili. Kekexili is a erm.. desert? Yea.. An icy desert..
full of sand and ice and mountains. The patrol also hunts down illegal hunters
who hunt Tibetan antelopes for their er.. “bulu”. And the story is based on the
report (NOT article) of the reporter who was with the patrol throughout their
whole journey.
OK, I
admit! It may not be everyone’s cup of the tarik. Who would want to watch a
show from mainland China? It’s not a Hollywood or Bollywood or some famous Hong
Kong movie. It’s NOT a comedy, thriller, fantasy, horror or wadsoever genre
there is out there. And yes, I admit.
There’s no BGM( BackGround Music), sword-fighting/ gun-shooting/ cannon
blasting action. There’s also no leng zhais or leng luis (Which means no steamy
kissing scenes or scenes of erm… something else. Because of lack of a good
looking cast). And yes again, I admit the cast all look like.. er.. well..
err.. let’s just leave it at that.
But
what I can assure you is that their acting is bloody convincing, and it looks
so much more like a documentary than a movie. Every smile, laughter, tear and
all comes across to me as real, not acted out. No fakeness in their every move.
And I can assure you that this show
offers something to viewers that all other Hollywood/ Bollywood/ Hong Kong
movies fail to present. It’ll give you an awakening. It’ll show you how “much”
we’re actually doing to care, much less save the earth and its ecology.
What stuck in my head was how one
of the patrol members who had to go back to town (let’s take note that a trip
to and fro might take a few days, by wheels) to get more resources such as food and oil (for the jeeps). After
getting the stuff, he went back into the desert to deliver the stuff and the
wheels got stuck. He went down to solve the problem and got caught in a
quicksand, and sunk slowly to his death. I found myself breathing hard as he
struggled to get out of the quicksand. Man, was that part real!
And so, yeah.. might not be
everyone’s cup of kopi-o’ kaw. But anyway, just give it a try. Download it
illegally if you have to.. hahaha. Ugh.. couldn’t sleep the whole night because
of that quicksand event.. ugh.. Must watch..
