”Director: Makoto Sasa
Critics' rating: Four Stars ****From Time Out New York
Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan monk now living in India, was tortured in Chinese prisons for 33 years. And it wasn’t mere waterboarding: Gyatso once had a cattle prod stuck in his mouth, which quickly destroyed all of his teeth (a situation that could’ve been a problem if they had actually fed him real food). This short but powerful doc provides a human element and historical perspective for armchair protestors who probably couldn’t find Tibet on a map—but because Adam Yauch and other celebrities care about the issue, know only that “they’re for it.”Author: Drew Toal
Time Out New York Issue 671: August 7-13, 2008
