What Remains Of Us
Watched the most heart-breaking documentary about the plight of the Tibetan people. Some Canadian producers teamed up with a Tibetan expat to do this film. They snuck into Tibet a 5 min video of the Dalai Lama speaking about keeping their Buddhist faith and sticking to the Ghandian principles of passive resistance. They showed this illegal footage to Tibetan people from all walks of life and filmed their responses.
There were few dry eyes in the audience. It was particularly heart-wrenching to watch the elderly people start crying because they remembered when Tibet was free from Chinese control. But most people were uniform in their response... what can Tibetan people do? The Chinese are so strong and powerful.
The film was so well done. They balanced their footage filmed mostly by hidden camera with brutal footage of all the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Chinese authorities since the 1950s. The documentary didn't really analyze the Tibetan situation and offer solutions. The film recognizes that the situation is far more complex than that. Trading with China indirectly supports its policies on Tibet... but how can we not trade with China? It's such a huge power in world economies.
One can only hope that Tibetan people can hold onto some of their quickly disappearing culture. They are already outnumbered in their own country and all the schools are Mandarin only. Once they lose their language what will be left of the Tibetan people? Their religion? The Dalai Lama is the only thing keeping the Tibetan people together. Once he dies, who knows what will happen?
There were few dry eyes in the audience. It was particularly heart-wrenching to watch the elderly people start crying because they remembered when Tibet was free from Chinese control. But most people were uniform in their response... what can Tibetan people do? The Chinese are so strong and powerful.
The film was so well done. They balanced their footage filmed mostly by hidden camera with brutal footage of all the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Chinese authorities since the 1950s. The documentary didn't really analyze the Tibetan situation and offer solutions. The film recognizes that the situation is far more complex than that. Trading with China indirectly supports its policies on Tibet... but how can we not trade with China? It's such a huge power in world economies.
One can only hope that Tibetan people can hold onto some of their quickly disappearing culture. They are already outnumbered in their own country and all the schools are Mandarin only. Once they lose their language what will be left of the Tibetan people? Their religion? The Dalai Lama is the only thing keeping the Tibetan people together. Once he dies, who knows what will happen?
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