The Mongolian Gomba messenger gallops with a horse pole, the vigorous and heroic appearance, the vast and rich grassland, make people intoxicated, but in the film it is more like an elegy. Gongba misses and is proud of the great historical achievements of his ancestor Genghis Khan and the heroic glory of the Mongolian people in the past, but the reality is that there are more and more modern electrical appliances on the grasslands, and the way of life is becoming more and more sinicized, from radio and television. Motorcycles to condoms. When he rode a horse and walked on a bustling downtown street under the amazed eyes of others, it seemed like a post-modern dilemma faced by a classicist, and it also vividly symbolized the plight of ancient civilization and national culture under the background of industrialization.
Gongba bought the TV back from the city. When he dreamed that Genghis Khan's team appeared in front of him on the hillside of the grassland, he accused himself of using the TV to betray Mongolian folklore and punished him. The scene reflects the Mongolian people. Struggling, confused and at a loss between his lost tradition and modern civilization, he is infinitely lonely and desolate.
The other protagonist, Russian Sergey, is also deep in his heart, a defender of his national culture. When he was drunk, in some modern dance halls, he took off his clothes to reveal the music score tattooed on his back—— "Manchuli Mountain", he sang emotionally and sadly with tears in his eyes. Accompanied by modern Western musical instruments, he fell down for Russia, died for the motherland... That scene was extremely shocking! A man who cannot find his soul laments in the jungle of reality, trying to find his own blood and his own roots, a man who has been cut off from history, trying to see the glory of his ancestors in a dream... No one knows who he is , No one is curious about where he came from, what kind of past he has, and no one will know why this alcoholic is crying?
The modern way of life, because of its advanced, efficient, convenient and comfortable, no one will refuse, but the power of modernization is so powerful. The annihilation makes people feel infinite heartache and infinite emotion.
If one day, there will be no more prayer flags and mani piles in the Tibetan area, no more yak butter tea, and Lhasa, like any city in the mainland, is full of bank office buildings, parking lots, foot washing city KTV, and Tibetans are keen to buy houses, cars, stocks, play mahjong , singing songs like "Love Business", I think I'll cry.
At the end of the film, a huge chimney has now been erected in the former grassland, which is endlessly sad and helpless.
Thousands of miles of grassland are still there today, but Temujin was not there!
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