Incredible sequences highlight man's symbiotic relationship with nature
“Wolf Totem,&#34; based on a novel by Beijing professor Lu Jiamin under the pseudonym Jiang Rong, concerns Chen Zhen (Feng Shaofeng), a student who, in 1967, is sent from Beijing to Inner Mongolia to teach the indigenous nomads during the Cultural Revolution. The nomads have a symbiotic relationship with the wild wolf packs, sharing food and resources, and have developed a deep spiritual respect for the power of the wolves. Fascinated by the wolves, Chen Zhen adopts a cub and raises it, sparing it from the command of his tough superior, a by-the-book bureaucrat who wants the wolves killed to sell their pelts to fashion-conscious foreigners. The young, idealistic Chen Zhen finds himself in the middle of a battle between traditional life of Mongolian nomads and the onslaught of civilization.<br /><br />French director Jean-Jacques Annaud took seven years to complete this film. Wolf wrangler Andrew Simpson trained a pack of 35 wolves for often difficult scenes. He eventually settled on 14 especially intelligent pups to comprise the pack that haunts and intrigues Chen Zhen. Though the cinematography by Jean-Marie Dreujou is magnificent and breathtaking, the film has its moments of brutality and violence that is part of life on the expansive plains. Annaud films the wolves as they stalk through the high plains grasses, looking very much the masters of their environment. An especially grisly scene shows the wolf pack ambushing a herd of horses during a fierce snowstorm. This sequence is particularly graphic and little is left to the viewer’s imagination.<br /><br />The film’s theme underscores the importance of humans and animals co-existing on the planet they share. The film has an epic feel, downplaying the political slant of the novel in favor of its ecological message. Rather than having cameras linger on animals in their native habitat, as in a TV-type animal documentary, “Wolf Totem” makes its nonhuman actors important cast members integral to the scripted story.<br /><br />The Blu-ray edition contains standard Blu-ray and 3D Blu-ray. Featurettes focus on Andrew Simpson and his canine stars, director Jean-Jacques Annaud, and cast members. The featurette “Environmentally Friendly” illustrates how the filmmakers were careful to leave the land as they found it before the production team arrived at the Inner Mongolia location. The film is in Mandarin, with English, Spanish, and French subtitles.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : In acclaimed director Jean-Jacques Annaud's film adaptation of Jiang Rong's best-selling novel, a young Beijing student is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads’ traditional enemies – the marauding wolves – to the north, humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to find their true place in the world..