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Comic, biting, entertaining and provocative, Pawo Choyning Dorji’s new film has much to teach Americans about ourselves.

Why are you teaching us to be so rude?" the elderly village woman asks a Bhutanese election official in "The Monk and the Gun." It's a question both poignant and biting, because the "teaching" this woman is resisting is something much of the outside world considers a basic human right: the right

We begin with a young monk, Tashi, attendant to a lama, or spiritual leader, traversing a peaceful field to a mountain village, Ura. He's on his way to hear an unusual request: The lama needs a gun. Or two. Before the full moon comes in a few days. "Things need to be made right," he says, cryptically.

We begin with a young monk, Tashi, attendant to a lama, or spiritual leader, traversing a peaceful field to a mountain village, Ura. He's on his way to hear an unusual request: The lama needs a gun. Or two. Before the full moon comes in a few days. "Things need to be made right," he says, cryptically.

“Why are you teaching us to be so rude?” the elderly village woman asks a Bhutanese election official in “The Monk and the Gun.” It’s a question both poignant and biting, because the “tea...