Egy amerikai egy értékes antik puskát keresve utazik Bhutánba, ahol megismerkedik egy fiatal szerzetessel, aki hegyek között vándorol.
The Monk and the Gun (2023) 1★
angol · angol
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Ódor_Endre
– Wow! I can't believe it! Our country's own TV channel! A Bhutanese TV channel! We are indeed a modern country now!
Ódor_Endre
– You know they are fattening up two pigs? Lodro will slaughter them to throw a party when he launches his election campaign. Our villagers flock to wherever there is free pork. Just like flies hovering over shit. They are so cunning, it's disgusting.
Ódor_Endre
– I heard we need to choose a new leader, but what's the use? We already have His Majesty.
– Ah, it's the political system in India. Their leaders are pulling each other's beards, throwing chairs at each other, and now we want to bring that to our country?
Ódor_Endre
– If this is the case, please go back home and come back when you know your birthdays! But please come back to register. Those without birthdays, please go!
– How would we know such useless information?
Ódor_Endre
– Have you heard about it?
– Heard about what?
– Elections.
– Oh, I don't know. Is it that new pig disease?
– Pig disease? No! It's where you choose your new leader.
– Oh, no. What happened to His Majesty?
– His Majesty is still there, but he's giving up his power to rule.
– But why would someone even do that?
– Because to be democratic is to be modern.
– Mmm. I have never heard about this.
– Well, that's because this is new to Bhutan.
– I guess it's a teaching of the Buddha?
– Well, not really.
– Oh, then how can we be so sure if it will even be good for us?
– It doesn't matter what Buddha taught 2500 years ago. This is modern thought, of course it will be good for us.
Ódor_Endre
– Do you really think all this is worth it?
– I told you, people around the world fight for these changes we are now gifted.
– Yes, but if we don't have to fight for it, maybe we don't really need it. For a villager like myself, the most important thing in life is my family. Ever since all of this came to our village, my family life has been disrupted. My husband spends all his time trying to compete with our neighbors. My mother and husband have become enemies, they don't even talk to each other anymore. This bitterness has even reached Yuphel's school. Her classmates don't play with her because she is her father's daughter.
– It's because we've just started this process. Soon it will pass, and everyone will be happy and prosperous.
– But, madame, we were always happy.
