Windhorse

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Audience Member Both pro-Beijing and DL people said - visit Tibet and I did and this film nails it just the way it is. Not the way governments want you to see it. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member I am totally shocked that this is not easier to get hold of! I think that should be seen world wide!!How can we allow this to happen? I feel totally sick to the very bottom of my being after watching this film. I have many Tibetans and I have been in the presence of HH The Dalai Lama and wish them all the love in the world! I hope that one day they will be able to return to Tibet and be at peace. Well recommended film, not necessarily for the filming but the true story that continues today. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Considering all the constraints, this movie was a very good effort. Some people really hope for the freedom of Tibetan people and some people do politics and make business about their sufferings. This movie gives an idea how these suppressed people are spending their every day life. Seems like they are foreigners in own home-land. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member A very good movie, in my opinion. Not the deepest plot, but that's not what this film is meant to be about. It focuses more on the culture clash and differences in the lives of the characters, contrasting older generations against those of the younger. The imagery is good and this film serves as another drop in the bucket to bring awareness to the situation (past and present) facing Tibetans at the hands of the China Republic. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Windhorse threw me a bit with its handheld video, translated to 35mm appearance kind of reminding me of a 70s Canadian TV show like The Littlest Hobo, but with my "give it 20 minutes" rule I began to settle in and by its end I did enjoy it. A tale of Chinese oppression of Tibet as told through the dynamic within a family, it does fail to be even-handed in presentation, and the Chinese are presented as uni-dimensional monsters, and that is a detraction when trying to make a serious point. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ah, it's over. With sadness I tell you there are no more surprises in store from Ogami Itto as I have now seen them all. This one was the campiest of the lot, but still good for laughs and shot with numerous interesting angles, good fight choreography, and the fabulous acting of Tomisaburo Wakayama (I don't see how I could accept anybody else in the role). I loved the angle of innocents that Lone Wolf and Cub contact being destroyed causing haunting isolation for our heroes, but there was too much reliance on "baby cart as gunship" here. When first they brought it out as a surprise it was hugely amusing, but the effect began to wear off as the series progressed. Left with no resolution of revenge vs Yagyu baddie Retsudo, who merely sleds away vowing to get that darn Itto somehow, it was a quick check to find that it was intended for more of these to be made, and tragically there weren't. I read rumours that Darren Aronofsky was doing a new one, but again I don't know if I could accept anybody else playing the role of Itto. Plus, the director has a spotty record with me, highlighted by Requiem For a Dream but making me absolutely puke with the pusbag The Fountain. I read a quote from him saying it wasn't true, so perhaps I'll be saved from having to watch. I'll thank Dustingood again for the pleasure of introducing this series to me, and I'll end with a repeat of the great respect I have for the fantastic Wakayama, who has left this world to pass into the nether regions where Itto himself walked so proudly. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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