Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei released the documentary Cockroach, which not only records the street protests in Hong Kong, but also interviewed former Hong Kong members such as Wong Chi-fung. There are also Hong Kong police officers interviewed, said frankly, not proud of their work.
According to a report by the Central News Agency today, Ai Weiwei pushed the Hong Kong protest documentary, capturing the reality of the “anti-China” movement. The report quoted The Guardian as saying that Ai Weiwei had sent a filming team to cover Hong Kong’s “anti-China” movement for six months as early as June last year, and interviewed protesters on the front line. The documentary recorded several street battles and the siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
In addition, “Cockroach” also documented how the young protesters in Hong Kong used tools such as sidewalk tiles, incendiary bombs and laser pens to resist. In addition, the production team also interviewed two Hong Kong police officers who had confronted the protesters, and they both confessed that they were not proud of their work. One of them even said, “Who wants to be Luthor (Lex Luthor, the villain character in the movie “Superman”), everyone wants to be Superman, but it’s like a script, we have roles to play.”
The newspaper quoted Ai Weiwei as saying that the Chinese used to think that Hong Kong people only know how to make money and make kung fu movies, and that “there is no serious culture”. However, the “anti-China” movement has shown that Hong Kong people are the ones who have culture, pursue utopia and are willing to fight for it. According to Ai Weiwei, “these people are special in the world because they dare to stand up to China, which most people don’t dare to do”.
According to the Central News Agency, but Ai Weiwei said that the “cockroach” also expresses the “mainlandisation” of Hong Kong, which has become an unavoidable fate for the city. “The Chinese authorities have a lot of money, but even if they don’t, they will put it all in to maintain stability and control through the power of the police and propaganda,” he says. According to Ai Weiwei, Hong Kong will undoubtedly be absorbed by China, “Maybe it will become Xinjiang, or maybe it will become Shanghai. It will not become what the protesters want it to be.
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