Is Kailash good-looking?

"Kang Rinpoche" is very good-looking. In the context of Hollywood taking over Chinese theaters, this film is very embarrassing to the Chinese director; in the context of Feng Xiaogang's saying that "junk movies are because of the junk audiences." Next, this film is very flattering to Chinese audiences.

Let’s talk about the good points of this film.

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The good thing about "Kang Rinpoche" is: the movie is about a very high-end and very important thing. A story of faith, but it has no "self-movement" at all.

Not being moved by oneself is what makes "Kang Rinpoche" possible. The story is: 11 Tibetans formed a pilgrimage team. They set out from Mangkang, Tibet, and traveled more than 1,200 kilometers to Lhasa. After working part-time in Lhasa to earn enough travel expenses, they then traveled more than 1,200 kilometers to the sacred mountain. Rinpoche.

(It is more than 1,200 kilometers from Mangkang County to Lhasa, more than 1,200 kilometers from Lhasa to Kailash, and the long pilgrimage road is 2,400 kilometers)

The whole journey is more than 2,400 kilometers, these 11 A Tibetan walks the entire journey by kowtowing his head. You can see from the video: Prostration means taking eight or nine steps, then crawling heavily and knocking your whole body to the ground, and then getting up again and crawling again...

On the way to worship, the tractor transporting daily necessities broke down. , the men pulled the tractor carriage for a certain distance, put the carriage in place, and then turned back to kowtow.

(Still from "Kang Rinpoche")

Is this behavior shocking? Shocked, is such behavior contagious? Contagious. But for Tibetans who kowtow, this is just a part of their lives. They take it for granted. They will not be "self-moved" by such behavior, nor will they feel complacent about it.

For them, kowtow is a good thing to pray for all living beings.

The film is also great because it does not deliberately exaggerate the greatness of this process. On the contrary, it uses an almost documentary technique to describe this process very plainly. The director does not have a novelty mentality, but expresses it in a way of recording lifestyle, without seeking to impress himself or the audience.

(A young man in the pilgrim team gets a haircut in a barber shop in Lhasa)

These plots fully demonstrate the director’s restraint: before the pilgrim team sets off to buy shoes, they will also go to the barber shop in Lhasa to get a haircut. When buying shoes, I haggle over the price; when my long-tow kowtow's prototype is broken, I just find a piece of wood to make a new one; on the way, I meet an elderly family member who is going to kowtow the long-tow, and the pilgrim team helps him plow the fields; the travel expenses are not enough for them. Just working part-time in Lhasa to save money... Everything was taken for granted, everything happened naturally, without any "self-movement".

As director Zhang Yang himself said: When you observe these things quietly, you will find that what is interesting is not the dramatic ups and downs, but the daily changes in the seasons. Through such a village, You can see a lot of comforting things in life. ”

So, is “Kang Rinpoche”, which is not self-moved and minimizes dramatic conflicts, an ordinary movie? Of course not, it is exactly in line with the temperament of “listening to thunder in silence”.

(The impoverished butcher atones for the sin of killing by kowtowing his head)

I don’t want to move myself, and I don’t want to move the audience, so I kowtow the 2,400 kilometers that was originally very difficult and painful. This is the most shocking thing.

When watching the movie, you will be shocked by this "power of faith". After watching the movie, you will understand: Faith. The most important meaning given to a person is that one's own heart alone is enough to define happiness.

(At 110 minutes into the film, old man Yang Pei passed away at the foot of Mount Kailash, and several lamas gave him his blessing. (He was saved)

This group of simple Tibetans feel in their hearts that "Kowning to the long head is good", "Kowling to the long head can atone for sins", "Kowling to the long head can be blessed by the gods", so , all their encounters were happy. Even if the old man Yang Pei who was traveling together died before reaching the finish line, everyone felt that "it was his blessing to die at the foot of the sacred mountain", and he was very happy without any sadness.

(Stills from "Kang Rinpoche")

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Some people say, “Life is a practice. "It is a kind of spiritual practice for Tibetans to kowtow and prostrate themselves on the mountain roads. It is also a kind of happiness for us people to light lamps and boil oil in the cubicles in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou and pursue our so-called success. In many cases, there is no need to panic or be impatient. , inner peace is where happiness lies.

It is unrealistic to say that this film can guide your life and beliefs, but it can definitely tell you a way of survival and a commentary on happiness. .

(Director Zhang Yang in Tibet)

Director Zhang Yang said: "No lifestyle in this world is completely correct, but many years later, people can still learn from this film. Here, I saw a nation still living or living like this. ”

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Let’s talk about the controversy generated by this film.

Many people say This film is curious and staged.

It should be pointed out that this is indeed not a documentary. The real pilgrimage road will not just experience a car breakdown, the birth of a baby, a landslide, the death of an old man... these unexpected accidents, but they do not completely interrupt the pilgrimage. .

The director himself admitted that he extracted these stories from many personal experiences from 600 hours of DV documentaries, and then arranged these stories into a whole.

(The spectacular scenery of Tibet)

Many people feel that the faith and mystery of Tibet are "consumed" because of this. What I want to say is: Tibet, beliefs, and so-called "mysteries" are no longer treasures hidden in the Jokhang Temple, hidden from the world. On the contrary, they are used to show off through these so-called beliefs and mysteries. Thousands of qualified people. "Kang Rinpoche" is expressed and recorded with the mentality of presenting a way of life, and has maintained the greatest restraint and respect.

(Kowtow when you encounter a puddle that you can’t avoid, just knock over from the puddle)

In this film, dramatic conflicts are handled as plainly as possible, There are very few close-ups and close-ups, mostly long shots and medium shots, which means maintaining the utmost restraint and rationality. This is already rare in the art film category that is full of director's personal expression.

However, plainness does not mean mediocrity. The natural integration of birth, old age, illness and death, and the passing of spring and autumn into this pilgrimage gives the film a profound sense of fate.