I agree with the screenwriter Reed. There is no problem with the values of this film. I read the original book many years ago, but I am not impressed. Some people on the Internet say that the original book promotes fascism, and it is impossible to judge whether they are right or not, but this hat does cover Not on the movie. The film explores more about man and nature than how sacred the wolf is in people's minds. The proletarians like to divide the crowd into left, middle and right, and do the same for the animals in nature. In their view, those animals that can be eaten and used by human beings are our friends, such as sheep and horses, and those ferocious beasts that pose a threat to humans and their livestock are enemy beasts, and they should be eliminated just like the enemy. For example, wolves. In the film, Communist Party cadres lead a group of people to shoot wolves in the grasslands, vividly showing this hatred. But in the eyes of the Mongolians, this is not the case. Of course, wolves will pose a threat to the sheep, but wolves will also reduce the number of yellow sheep, so that the grassland will not be over-eaten by the yellow sheep. The wolf protects the grassland in its own unique way. The wolves also love and kill humans in this way. Blindly culling wolves not only destroys the ecology, but also brings terrible consequences to human existence.
The Mongolians not only have their own unique understanding of the value of wolves to maintain ecological balance, but more importantly, they also regard animals like wolves as individuals with independent survival value, rather than positioning their value in the function of human beings. In a typical example, Chen Zhen raised the little wolf like a dog, angering the village chief. The village chief was angry because he thought that this was treating the wolf as a slave and depriving the wolf of its dignity to find food alone.
In the view of the Mongolians, all things have spirits, and the souls of all things will eventually go to Tengger. Tengri (Changshengtian) is the god who dominates everything in the world in the eyes of Mongolians. Mongols may respect wolves, but don't regard them as gods (according to scholars and some Mongols), so this view of Mongols in the book is exaggerated and goes to an extreme, while the movie makes a comparison Good handling, closer to the real situation. Although the Mongols and Han Chen Zhen in the film love wolves, they do not worship wolves as totems. The name of the movie has not been changed, which is a bit of a pity (of course it is necessary for the box office), I think it is more appropriate to call it "Prairie Wolf".
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