The Masterpiece That Bourdain Fans Have Trouble Watching | Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown

>> [singing] >> Flying in, you hang on to your seat as the plane negotiates some alarming maneuvers through narrow mountain passes before dropping into [music] the country's only international airport, said by some to be the most dangerous in the world.

Watch your head. Yeah, right. Wow. What do you think of the altitude? How you feeling up here? I'm here because of this guy, my friend, the film director, Darren Aronofsky. Fresh off the unjustifiably horrified reaction to what I think is his masterpiece, Mother. But you studied the effects of high altitude. You know, your blood gets thicker and thicker until it's like freaking marmalade. All right. We'll be dying slowly. Awesome.

Mother is an angry and thinly veiled warning that we are destroying our planet. And policy-wise, Bhutan is something of an environmental wonderland.

We wanted to protect the country from being overly influenced by foreign values, culture, you know, all of the bad stuff that happens with tourism. Has anyone made a film here? I don't know. It's got to be hard to work here. Yeah, plus talk about contaminating the values of the local culture. I mean, I don't That'll stop Well, we don't Hollywood doesn't do that. Our first meal becomes our go-to favorite [music] for the rest of the trip.

Whatever tragedies fall on you, that's in the family karma. It's all about an attitude. Pick up and move on. Once His Holiness the Dalai Lama told me, "Every day when you rise up, you try and be a good a human being as possible.