there a stark and haunt beauty within the land call kekexili tibetan for beautiful mountain and beautiful woman that threaten to smother the human drama be play out between the patrolman risk their life to preserve the antelope and the poacher who use their skin to create obscenely expensive scarf . no matter what the scene and be it a closeup of an action take place in a river or a medium shot of vehicle traverse a barren and empty land and kekexili be undoubtedly the main character in this gorgeous but bleak film and a hostile land that in one of the movie most striking moment and swallow a lone patrolman whole when he make the mistake of step over quicksand . a an action movie and only the first scene be really where the brutality ensue a antelope be systematically kill ( right in front of the camera and which make it a tad intense for anyone not use to these image ) and the patrolman try to protect them get a bullet in his head . it get quickly establish from the get go that these poacher be soulless individual whose greed have lead them to destroy the wildlife and which make the plight of ri tai and a man whose life have be commit to the cause of the antelope and and ga yu and a reporter who get involve in the case and more relevant even when everyone else get blur in the background and it seem that there will be no solution to this matter . kekexili be a tricky movie to classify even when it clearly ground in thriller and action root due to the overpowering nature of the place where it set and it refusal to romanticize it two lead character . if anything and it can be see a a silent film and one that tell it story in mute yet powerful image and and in do so and get it message across .