Wednesday, February 10, 2010


The movie The Story of the Weeping Camel is an intersting film that occurs in modern day Mongolia. The story documents a young camel and its mother and the Mongolian culture and way of life. The movie focuses on a white bactrian camel that was born and then consequently rejected by its mother. A nomadic family in the Gobi desert then tries and save the camels life. With the mother of the rare camel refusing to feed it milk after her remarkably difficult labor, the nomadic family tries and gets the help of lamas to perform a ritual with bread. However the ritual performed by the lamas does not fulfill its purpose, which was to rekindle peace between the rejected camel and its mother. The natives then send two young boys to go and locate a indeginous violinist to come and reconcile the relationship between the mother and her baby, which the violinist was successful at doing. The movie showed me that no matter how different the culture I or anyone else lives in, love is always an international language. Although we may bicker and fight, love can still exist through reconciliation. The people in the movie were indeginous Mongolians, however that didn't stop them from showing their emotions, so we should never stop ourselves from showing emotions either, especially when they are good emotions such as love

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