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Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
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Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom is a 2019 film from Bhutan directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji.Ugyen is a teacher who is burned out on teaching. In fact, he wants to be a singer, and has dreams of emigrating to Australia. However, his education was paid by the Bhutanese government, and he is only four years into a five-year contract. The education ministry, which is not too happy with Ugyen's lackadaisical approach to his work, assigns him to somewhere far away.Specifically, he gets assigned to Lunana, said to be the most remote village in Bhutan, a country with some pretty remote villages. In fact, it's so remote that after taking a long bus drive, and being met by a couple of Lunana villagers, they have to trek several more days up and over the mountain pass on foot.Finally Ugyen gets to Lunana, a rustic village of herders. He is shocked by the crude cabin with an outhouse he's given, as well as the one-room schoolhouse that doesn't even have a blackboard. The villagers are thrilled to have a real teacher for their children, but Ugyen demands to go back home. Soon enough, however, he's charmed by the children, and he dedicates himself to teaching them. | |
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Eiffel Tower Effect | |
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Eiffel Tower Effect: How do we know that Ugyen finally made it to Australia? A shot of the Sydney Opera House, of course. | |
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The Place | |
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The Place: Lunana, a real remote mountain village, where you might just have a yak in the classroom. | |
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Barefoot Poverty | |
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Barefoot Poverty: On the first night of their hike into the mountains Ugyen and his guides from Lunana stay in a guest house. Ugyen sees the man of the house going out barefoot, asks, and is told that the man simply can't afford shoes. Then he notices that the man's little daughter does have shoes. | |
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Raised by Grandparents | |
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Raised by Grandparents: Ugyen's grandmother remarks that "you lost your parents as a child." It has little to do with the story other than underlining why Ugyen's traditionalist grandma thinks little of his dreams to be a singer in Australia. It also helps him form a bond with little Pem Zam, one of his students, who is living with her grandmother because her mom is off driving herds and her father is a hopeless alcoholic. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Tipping towards Downer Ending. Ugyen has come to feel at home in Lunana, the people would like him to stay and continue as their teacher, pretty Saldon is obviously interested in him, and he himself seems half-inclined to stay. But he leaves, follows his dream of Australia, and gets there—and the movie finds him singing in a bar to Australian bar patrons that are ignoring him. But then he switches from his original English-language pop song to "Yak Lebi Lhadar", the song Saldon taught him, and the Australians are listening with rapt attention as the film cuts to black. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: Hard to go wrong with the rushing rivers, snow-capped mountains, and green rolling valleys of Bhutan. | |
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City Mouse | |
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City Mouse: Ugyen is very much a city boy, from the capital of Thimphu which has about 110,000 residents and all the features of modern civilization. He knows almost nothing of the country and how to get by there, or its traditions and rituals. When he sees Lunana with its sporadic solar electricity and his cabin with its outhouse, he immediately wants to leave. Eventually he adjusts, although he has to be shown stuff like how to use dried yak dung to start a fire. | |
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Reassigned to Antarctica | |
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Reassigned to Antarctica: Ugyen makes it to his meeting with the education official, and tells her that he doesn't really want to be a teacher anymore. She scoffs at his bad attitude, reminds him that he owes them another year, and promptly assigns him to "probably one of the most remote schools in the world." | |
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Translated Cover Version | |
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Translated Cover Version: Ugyen gets the kids to sing "Old Macdonald Had a Farm" in Dzongkha, the Bhutanese language. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Pem Zam's father, whom Ugyen and Michen see passed out in the middle of the village in broad daylight, lying next to a shrine. A disgusted Michen observes that there's nothing to be done with him. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: The opening scene has Ugyen's grandmother rousting her lazy grandson out of bed, then castigating him for being lazy. Ugyen's character as a layabout is firmly established. | |
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Victoria's Secret Compartment | |
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Victoria's Secret Compartment: Saldon the pretty yak herder pulls the lyrics to the song "Yak Lebi Lhadar" from inside the folds of her dress. It's a flirtatious gesture, although their relationship remains chaste. | |
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Cool Teacher | |
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Cool Teacher: Ugyen certainly isn't this when he shows up, stating plainly that he doesn't want to be there. But by the end he is, rigging up a sort of basketball hoop for the kids, singing songs, spending his own money on school supplies, and tearing down the paper that's keeping the wind out of his window frames at home, so the kids have something to write on. | |
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Death by Childbirth | |
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Death by Childbirth: Asha eventually reveals that he had a wife and a son that died in childbirth many years ago. | |
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Cheerful Child | |
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Cheerful Child: Pem Zam, the smiling, happy "class captain" who's always eager to learn. She's even cheerful when telling Ugyen that her father is a hopeless alcoholic. The one time she gets upset and starts to cry is when Ugyen tells her that he won't be staying in Lunana. | |
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