Ten Years 十年

[skylee]

Has anyone seen this film? I have heard / read a lot about it but have not seen it yet. All the good reviews had not raised my interest as much as the negative review of the Global Times did. This was probably because the Global Times usually makes its comments based on the Chinese Logic. So when it says something in HK is bad, it probably is the contrary.

Background info -

環球時報 - http://w.huanqiu.com/r/MV8wXzg0MjU2MzJfMjgyXzE0NTMzOTYzODA=

CNN - http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/20/asia/hong-kong-ten-years-future/

[chiuyan]

I plan to be in Hong Kong for Chinese New Year and hope to see it then.

I think everyone knew the Global Times would give this film a negative review.

[skylee]

AFAIK, there are now only three cinemas showing 十年: the Metroplex and UA Megabox in Kowloon Bay, and a cinema at Ma On Shan. None of them are centrally located IMHO.

I have just seen it at the Metroplex. I think it is worth seeing. The fourth part about independence movement is good. The second part 冬蟬 is the weakest and very hard to stand in my opinion.

PS - in fact, I find the unevenness caused by the second part a bit disappointing.

PPS - regarding the fourth part, it just felt good to see the things many people have been thinking shown and said on the screen.

[skylee]

Recent comments on New York Times - Imagining Hong Kong’s Future, Under China’s Tightening Grasp (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/world/asia/hong-kong-ten-years.html)

See photos attached for the Chinese version.

[skylee]

A report of the Guardian on the film (Ten Years – the terrifying vision of Hong Kong that Beijing wants obscured) -

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/11/ten-years-the-terrifying-vision-of-hong-kong-that-beijing-wants-obscured

[Angelina]

I want to do a

（南斯拉夫）二十五年 （前）

that one will be based on fact (for example, using depleted uranium on innocent people, on purpose, in the name of "democracy") , unlike (香港）十年 (後）, which is only a prediction.

[skylee]

Re #6，why don't you then? I look forward to seeing it.

[Angelina]

Well, I don't have any money, not even for a low budget one.

There is no way I would be able to promote it. There is no way I would be able to go against the negate reviews mainstream media will give it. Including social media, where, at least in my native language, there seems to be a main public discourse lead by certain people, it is pretty clear what their political views are and how they ended up being opinion leaders. Therefore, when I start promoting it online, the opinion leaders on social media will turn public opinion against it, we all know what happened to Gary Webb. I remember before I left home, some friends of mine had a student newspaper. They wrote an article on students protesting against high tuition fees and then the US embassy censored the article. The message of the embassy was clear: "you are not allowed to publish this article".

I hope people of HK will get to decide what happens in their neighborhood.

What is worse: Huxley or Orwell?

http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/huxley-to-orwell-my-hellish-vision-of-the-future-is-better-than-yours.html

[Angelina]

it is a war

[skylee]

十年 (Ten Years) has just got the Best Film Award of the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards.

[Angelina]

我祝福你

http://www.le.com/ptv/vplay/21138037.html

[skylee]

This is interesting (and why are they afraid to let the Chinese people know? Because of Tibet and Xijiang?) -

第35屆香港電影金像奬獲獎名單 on sina.com http://dailynews.sina.com/bg/ent/film/sinacn/20160403/05097261705.html

大陸網媒報頒奬禮「完整獲奬名單」　獨缺《十年》 https://thestandnews.com/society/%E5%A4%A7%E9%99%B8%E7%B6%B2%E5%AA%92%E5%A0%B1%E9%A0%92%E5%A5%AC%E7%A6%AE-%E5%AE%8C%E6%95%B4%E7%8D%B2%E5%A5%AC%E5%90%8D%E5%96%AE-%E7%8D%A8%E7%BC%BA-%E5%8D%81%E5%B9%B4/

"香港電影金像獎因為獨立電影《十年》被提名最佳電影，頒獎禮即被大陸媒體全面封殺，今日再傳傳廣電總局下宣傳指示，不炒作港獨題材電影《十年》，今晚《十年》奪得最佳電影後，大陸媒體公布的得奬名單，果然出現獨缺《十年》這情況。

新浪及騰訊等網媒今晚均有報道香港電影金像獎得獎，但在報道「完整獲奬名單」時，卻獨缺奪「最佳電影」的《十年》。有大陸網民表示，「連新浪、網易都不敢報出來？有這麼猛嗎，聽說是部鬼片。」

蘋果日報亦報道，有廣州民眾今晚想收看TVB直播頒獎禮時，卻發現廣東有線電視網絡全面屏蔽TVB的畫面，只能收看堪輿學家蘇民峰的飲食節目《食得峰騷》。"

[Angelina]

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/04/how-a-hong-kong-corruption-scandal-sparked-strife-at-mossack-fonseca

This corruption scandal is big. Do people in HK talk about it Skylee?

[skylee]

十年 is available on Google Play -> https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/ten_years?id=XdhCFGPTZGw

[Angelina]

http://www.fcchk.org/node/6632

[skylee]

Ten years is also available via iTunes.

https://itunes.apple.com/hk/movie/ten-years/id1105253249

[chiuyan]

Both the itunes and Google play versions seem region locked to Hong Kong :-(

[character]

 

Both the itunes and Google play versions seem region locked to Hong Kong :-(

I hit that as well.  I think the distributor(?) really missed a trick by not making the film available internationally while it was in the news because of Apple/iTunes/China: http://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-itunes-movies-and-books-services-suspended-in-china/

[skylee]

It seems that there are ways to see it even if you are not in HK (see the comments) ~ https://m.facebook.com/hktenyears/photos/a.522429601243136.1073741828.394498927369538/614904678662294/?type=3&fs=5

According to their facebook they can't rent the film to overseas iTunes and Google Play users yet because of copyright issues.

[mandel1luke]

Managed to catch this film a few months back and ended up quite disappointed. Felt the film could do better in three segments rather than five, that would help develop the plot and arguments better. None of the five really explore the political issues in depth and present any cogent arguments as to why or how the scenarios developed. The best of the lot is the last. My subjective opinion of course.