Thought on the Movie KOKOSHIRI

It was awesome that I'd had a chance to watch the movie which I've waited for half a semester ultimately. And I enjoyed it a lot.

The film revolves around a journalist from one of the major cities in China-Beijing, and how he got involved with a bunch of people that voluntarily formed a group to unveil and arrest the illegal trade underground operated by an international organization for antelopes. The name of the movie, Kokoshiri means a beautiful maid in Tibetan, the scenery of that film was simply too striking and gorgeous where you can see beautiful farms on top of mountains and higher plate, yet it also can be horrifying as you see how dangerous the desert can be as well as the quicksand. During the days the journalist from Beijing lived and worked up there, he found how different the rest of the world is, and how people in threadbare clothing and deficit of almost everything deal with their difficulty in life one after another. I wonder how people can survive that extreme under such a miserable circumstance which people call it a "paradise".

With harder lives they must live, the social phenomenon of illegal trade gets severer than ever. Hence, the journalist felt an enormous responsibility of disclosing all the facts to the public. Life is hard, so is the goal that we want to achieve, members of that group died of misfortune and violence one by one; some of them were assassinated simply because they appeared to be the greatest obstacle against the likelihood of getting a big fortune of the notorious merchants, and plot ended up that there was only the journalist surviving from the battle.

For the messages that the director wants to tell are how we could ever prevent illegal trades and make a good conservation of endangered species. That made me recall a real story in a clip I just received, the scenario never fails to take place elsewhere in China, especially in some areas where people lack of education and righteous teaching, exploiting and skinning all those lucrative animals such as foxes, raccoons and even tigers and bears. I just can't believe how they can be so cruel killing those cute creatures with an iron heart. Another message is to let us know how he conceptualized the real life style Tibetan people lead. Apparently hunting isn't something that can support people to buy a living in a society where everything is costly and fancy. Whenever there is a demand, they take action. It is not surprising people tend to be easily lured to do something that they don't think would negatively influence the world and the ecological balance in times of want. The very scene that impressed me and shut me up in silence was that one of the members, trying to go back and take some supplements died on the way back to his friends' as he stepped into the drift sand carelessly.

That is too surreal to be true yet it is a truth that things really happen. :) Good to know that the film was nominated to Kim Ma award, and I don't care if that was from the director originally; sure it's deeply ingrained in us that we all need to be aware of how rapidly the sense of value has changed and we do follow it? We stay still and do whatever we can to make a better world.