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What's the difference between Roof of the World and other documentaries?

Now many documentaries are pursuing big production, big scenes and big stories! Epic! The series "The Roof of the World" and "The Tip of the Tongue" only focus on small things, telling stories around you, and making you feel the true feelings, as if you can reach out and touch them. The story in Roof of the World is not deep, but it is typical. It embodies the feeling of great love of Tibetans.

Nowadays, many documentaries either only pursue extremely luxurious pictures or only pursue story lines. A simple 4K landscape documentary will be shocking, but it will be forgotten after watching it. A documentary with a strong story (a typical one is "One Year in Tibet") will make people remember the protagonist and his situation, and it is difficult to form memories in other parts. ? Roof of the World combines these two aspects, using time-lapse photography and aerial photography (God's perspective) to make the audience have a deep memory of the story and the picture.

Myth 3: Most documentaries targeting Tibetan areas exaggerate Tibetan Buddhism or only praise local legends and customs. ? The Roof of the World evaded this aspect and handled it skillfully. In the third episode, the monk looks for stones and gives them to others for treatment. In the practice of Tibetan Buddhism, it is a kind of "bodhicitta", a kind of self-cultivation, a kind of dedication to all beings and a kind of merit. The Roof of the World doesn't exaggerate the story too much, but it reminds me of the remote Ali area, where a monk is looking for stones to make Tibetan medicine.