Self Immolatin Belonging Analysis
when the two characters start to make and number the specimens from the dishes, hair, to the ash, it simply represents a sense of strong nostalgia which generally shared by the society. As the current situation of Hong Kong, Hong Kong people has an ultimate nostalgia and paranoia with the historical buildings and different local values, but when we are facing the countless of white elephants projects in Hong Kong, it shows our helpless and hopeless to this society, even seldom people completely agreed with the the "reconstruction", "renovation" and "revitalization" of the Government. When the old things left the site, it also means the wilt of a value. For example, the eviction of Queen's Pier and the vegetable garden village also known
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The film “Self -Immolation” is basically talking about the leader of the student movement who was imprisoned due to the Hong Kong Basic Law Article of 23, subversion against the Central People's Government and his hunger strike triggered the self-immolation incident later on. The main character Au-Yeung believed that someone must sacrifice his life to fight for the democracy of Hong Kong and arise the social awareness. And finally, he decided to be the first person to sacrifice his life in order exchange for a better Hong Kong’s future. His death also triggered an old women who has experienced different cultural revolution from the 64 to the reunification to act out the self - immolation to mourn Au-Yeung. His extreme self-destruction also reminds our powerlessness after different large - scale protest movement. In the reality, the action of self-immolation is an extremely radical approach to fight for the democracy, however, after experiencing a series of hunger strike during the umbrella protest, all of us cannot guarantee that the plot which happens in the film will not come
The film “Self -Immolation” is basically talking about the leader of the student movement who was imprisoned due to the Hong Kong Basic Law Article of 23, subversion against the Central People's Government and his hunger strike triggered the self-immolation incident later on. The main character Au-Yeung believed that someone must sacrifice his life to fight for the democracy of Hong Kong and arise the social awareness. And finally, he decided to be the first person to sacrifice his life in order exchange for a better Hong Kong’s future. His death also triggered an old women who has experienced different cultural revolution from the 64 to the reunification to act out the self - immolation to mourn Au-Yeung. His extreme self-destruction also reminds our powerlessness after different large - scale protest movement. In the reality, the action of self-immolation is an extremely radical approach to fight for the democracy, however, after experiencing a series of hunger strike during the umbrella protest, all of us cannot guarantee that the plot which happens in the film will not come