The so-called Cultural Revolution in China was a socio-political process carried out in the second half of the 60s of the last century, as a way to intimidate anyone who thought differently from what the great chief preached and ordered. This process brought thousands of workers and students to rural areas of the country in order to interact with farmers and shepherds and to promote the thinking of the great leader. Inner Mongolia, a Chinese territory, did not escape of the young people incursions, the so-called Red Guards or Hóng Wèi Bing, in charge of enforcing the indications and goals of the Supreme Leader. That is the value of the film and its subtlety, it addresses an aggression to the ecosystem, including its natural fauna and how local and outside entities react to a problem created to solve supposedly another. The film highlights when the laws of nature are not considered, and adverse rules are imposed, which finally may bring about the extermination of species and biodiversity. The wolf is a predator at the top of the food chain and as such is an ecosystem regulator. If the wolf disappears, the ecosystem becomes unbalanced and the populations of its prey may grow without limit. The shepherds warned that the rabbit, a pest in that environment, would proliferate and seriously affect the grasslands. A useful film for those who do not understand nothing more than money and nothing about the protection of fauna, flora and the environment in general.
Review of Wolf Totem
