Delamu follows a trade caravan along the old trade route of the Tea-Horse Road (aka southern silk road) that connects the Chinese inland area with Tibet. We see interviews with local villager (Tibetan and various other ethnic minorities) and learn about their lives along the way. The beautiful landscape needs to be seen on the big screen to be fully appreciated. I loved the interviews with the local villagers, too.
My friends thought the movie was too slow. Maybe it's a cultural gap. I would guess that the locals aren't used to talking so much at length, so they tended to talk slowly and haltingly. But I appreciated their sincerity. What they said reaffirmed my belief that people everywhere share the same needs and desires, though their everyday lives may be very different.
Of the people we meet in the movie, I especially liked the old woman who kicked her lazy first husband out of the house and married a second more capable man, the man who cried over his mule that was killed by a falling rock during the journey, and the female school teacher at the end who revealed her "secret" wish of her wanting a man who she can talk to and love and her plan to leave home to look for him.
My friends thought the movie was too slow. Maybe it's a cultural gap. I would guess that the locals aren't used to talking so much at length, so they tended to talk slowly and haltingly. But I appreciated their sincerity. What they said reaffirmed my belief that people everywhere share the same needs and desires, though their everyday lives may be very different.
Of the people we meet in the movie, I especially liked the old woman who kicked her lazy first husband out of the house and married a second more capable man, the man who cried over his mule that was killed by a falling rock during the journey, and the female school teacher at the end who revealed her "secret" wish of her wanting a man who she can talk to and love and her plan to leave home to look for him.