Tibetan Prayer Flags Yushu
Watching the movie 2012 was fun but who would believe that the world would end in 2012. Not for another million years! Well, in the movie it did. Well…almost did. (I will not tell you the ending so as not to spoil your fun, just in case you have yet to watch it).
I have a friend who is really seriously concerned that the Mayan prediction that the world will end in 2012 is true. He is still really serious – making his career and money!
It was a movie to be enjoyed. Not much emphasis on the doomsday thing but there is something on human values. What value that is, you will have to watch to find out. But there is one part featuring Tibetans which I find purposeful.
Although I only know the Tibetans and their culture in a superficial way, I do think that they have suffered much injustice at the hands of the Chinese. It has been 50 years or so now that the red army marched in and took over Tibet and claimed it as part of China. Atrocities and cruelty were unleashed onto defenseless herdsmen while the world silently watched.
Tibet’s misfortune is the world’s fortune. Tibet has been the archive of the full collection of Buddhist teachings and with them scattered like ants across the globe, precious teachings which would otherwise have remained locked within the Land of Snow.
Tibet today remains colonized.
Thus, I am glad that the movie 2012 has a part where Tibetans are featured. Kudos to the producers, writers and all else on the team! Most may not understand the language spoken but at the very least, people may know Tibet still exists and hopefully try to understand their plight more.
I hope soon the leaders and people of China will have the wisdom to give Tibet back to the Tibetans. Now they are prisoners in their own land.
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Since tibetan is spoken i will make an effort to watch this movie.
I learnt from Minam Rinpoche that the Tibetan spoken is Bhutanese Tibetan. It is staccato like machine gun fire. I thought it sounded like U-Tsang. Enjoy this movie; at the very least touch the Tibetan spirit.
2012 must watch in cinema…..
For the special effects..agreed.