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Too much of everything

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

For the record, Kekexili is part of Qinghai Province, not Tibet!There are heaps of Tibetan ethnic minorities in Qinghai Province and Gansu Province.The poachers mostly Hui Muslim from Hualong , Qinghai in which has its reputation for illegally manufacturing guns and give a headache to Chinese government . And the "breathtaking scenery" can be spotted in most provinces in western China (Qinghai, Gansu, Xinjiang,etc.),not only Tibet. Why would some hypocrites always set their mind on Tibet . Spare your worthless prepossession, leave Tibet alone, then you can truly understand this movie. All in all, it is a good movie. Simple, to the point , ruthless.The patrolmen are respectably stupid, yet exactly this Stu**NE*s has made this movie. But i have to say nothing important than human life! Riti is failed as leader and protector, he shouldn't rick bothers life when he clearly know they are outnumbered and ill-equipped. I feel sorry for the human more than animals. People who living in that area living a harsh life that they didn't create in the first place, it is basically desert due to the mother nature. Doesn't matter how you animal protector* thinks, it won't work for this situation as most of the poachers and ski8ners had no choice, they need to survive. The only measure to protect the rare animal in Tibetan plateau is to protect human, improve their living condition! Human- oriented principle is essential. Human there are struggling to survive, people gotta eat. If they can live a life with warmth and fullness, they will leave the animal alone.After all who would want to risk their lives of getting shot for smuggling animal fur?

Let's get the title correct first. The characters pronounce "Kekexili" as "Ko-Ko-Schee- Lee", and we are told it means beautiful mountains. Kekexili follows Ga Yu, a Beijing journalist as he travels with the Mountain Patrol, a civilian group under the command of a man named Ritai who are determined to stop poachers from hunting "chiru", a nearly extinct Tibetan Antelope that is valued for their soft pelts.The Mountain Patrol is not officially recognized by the Chinese government, so their actions are quasi-legal, but they do have the power to confiscate illegal antelope pelts and to administer cash fines to anyone caught with the pelts. If the Mountain Patrol can catch poachers in the act, they can bring down the full weight of the Chinese government to arrest these criminals. We go with the Mountain Patrol on this particular mission and we experience all the hardship, danger and troubles that they experience.As Ritai's group tracks the poachers we see the after effects of their poaching. One scene shows a valley full of skinned antelope carcasses left to rot in the sun, now nothing more than food for vultures. In another, Ritai comes upon a group of men who work for the poachers as skinners. These are just poor Chinese workers trying to eke out a living. They know it's illegal to kill the antelope, but they have only been hired to skin already dead animals; so where's the illegality in that?Ritai however, is not very sympathetic. He confiscates their pelts and slaps the men with a large fine. But Ritai thinks he may be able to get to the big boss poacher through these skinners, so he "arrests" these men, has them handcuffed and loaded onto one of his trucks. Our journalist is clearly bothered by this incarceration of citizens by a group lacking any legal authority to do it, but his concerns are dismissed by Ritai. This will not be the last time we find ourselves in a moral gray zone.Since Ritai has incarcerated these dozen extra men, he is now responsible for feeding them. We now learn some bitter truths about this Mountain Patrol. The Mountain Patrol receives no state funding for salaries, supplies or anything else. They rely wholly on donations, which are notoriously small. In fact, none of Ritai's men have been paid for over a year. As Ritai's obsessive search continues, his food rations ebb and he is soon faced with a dilemma, who does he feed; his men or his prisoners?Ritai now decides he has to send one of his men back to get more supplies and Liu Dong is dispatched to drive back. Lui Dong tells Ritai that he has no money to buy supplies. Ritai tells him to use the money collected in fines. That won't be enough. Ritai thinks for a moment and then tells Liu Dong to sell off the confiscated Tibetan Antelope pelts on the Black Market. What? Is Ritai really going to sell the illegal antelope pelts in order to raise the funds needed to stop the poachers who also sell illegal antelope pelts? Apparently he is.On top of this, Ritai has decided to let the group of incarcerated skinners go because he can no longer take care of them. Some complain that they can't make it back to civilization and will probably die.Ritai's only comment, "If you don't make it, then it's your fate." This is pretty cold, if you ask me.With all the tribulations faced by the ever-weakened Mountain Patrol, the worst thing that could happen to them is exactly what does happen; they find the poachers. Unlike the weak, under-funded Mountain Patrol, the poachers are large in number, well fed and well supplied. The poacher boss asks Ritai why he is harassing him? Ritai says he is protecting HIS antelope. The poacher boss laughs; when did they become Ritai's property? The poacher boss offers to buy Ritai a house and two cars if he'll just stop pursuing him.Insulted that the poacher would even think of bribing him, Ritai punches the boss man and he is immediately fired upon. Ritai is hit in the abdomen and falls to the ground writhing in pain. The big boss now takes a rifle and pumps a half dozen more bullets into Ritai to put him out of his misery. But Ga Yu, our frightened Beijing journalist is not killed. In fact, the poachers show him far more courtesy and humanity than Ritai's group ever showed him.No wonder this film made me queasy. I was both impressed and frightened by the self-righteous anger that seemed to motivate Ritai and his men. And, while Ritai's goals were laudable, his methods for achieving them were questionable. Once Ritai began illegally selling the antelope pelts for operating funds, he crossed a very serious line. But contradictions like that are not unknown among some animal rights groups. Consider PETA, which is opposed to all types of animal testing for medical research, yet their vice president, Mary Beth Sweetland is a diabetic who uses insulin made from animal products to keep her alive.She publicly admits this but says; "I don't see myself as a hypocrite. I need my life to fight for the rights of animals." So, life saving medicine that she would deny to ten million other diabetics is OK for her because SHE is devoted to saving animals. One usually has to reach into the realm of politics to uncover such monumental hypocrisy.As Kekexili ends, we are informed that beginning in 2001, the Chinese government disbanded the civilian Mountain Patrol and formed its own anti-poaching unit.

Unique perspectives chronicling the inspiring and true stories of the Tibetan vigilante group who forged their own way of life hunting poachers in the Chinese highlands, one of the most remote, harshest environments in the world. These modern day crusaders had absolutely no sponsorship, no pay, no nothing, and yet would risk everything, time and time again to potentially allow their sacred antelope that much longer time on earth before the mass killings drive this animal into complete extinction. Thanks to the real life attention this earnest movement eventually got, the mountain patrol was able to keep this holy animal from not only becoming extinct, although it did once come dangerously close, but created an environment that eventually saw the animals thriving again. At the center, the film articulates the fear one must associate with at the onset of complete desolation, being totally at the mercy of mother nature's fury in a land where no man can touch. These scenes that document the Mountain Patrol in their epic struggle to catch the poachers are hauntingly effective in their portrayal of the vast open space and hopelessness that occurs after initial boundaries are exceeded; you literally feel like you will be stuck out in the middle of nowhere, waiting to die along with the characters in this film. While in no ways matching the emotional impact of the absolute horror of those abandonment sequences, the whole movie does substantially, and gorgeously render the patrol's entire quest to seek out, once and for all, the main mass murderer of these beautiful beasts, which guides us along through the perspective of an incoming Chinese reporter who is taxed with researching and documenting the lifestyle of this truly extraordinary patrol. While the authentic Tibetan perspectives complement the original story and action, by far the movie's greatest asset is it's truly terrifying portrayal of the fragility of man in overwhelming environmental situations, rendering the otherwise average aspects of the film far more profound.

Kekekili is a mountainous wilderness in Tibet, home to the Tibetan antelope - now an endangered species since their fur became a valued commodity in the west. In the early 90's a group of volunteers formed to protect the antelope from poachers, working with meagre resources in a hostile terrain. When one of the volunteers is murdered, a journalist from Beijing travels to Kekexili to follow the patrol and tell their story.Tibet is a country that many in the west have a very romantic image of - a culture and lifestyle as far removed from modern, urban society as any on earth. The reality of Tibetan life in the modern age is probably that it's tough, first and foremost.Kekexili is a simple film, telling the story with no bells and whistles or attempt to shoehorn in clichéd dramatic devices, or to make the characters fit particular archetypes. People and events are presented plainly as the patrol pursue a group of poachers over the gorgeous backdrop of the mountain wilderness, risking their lives to protect the endangered antelope - but compromising themselves ethically along the way too.The ending is perhaps a little unsatisfying, but I guess reality can be like that :)