Two-time Oscar winner for Best Documentary Short Film, winner of 16 Emmy Awards, and world-class documentary filmmaker Malcolm Clarke, during the 2019 Hong Kong anti-amendment turmoil, took the filming team to the streets of the conflict, and now he will see what he sees. The news was compiled into a ten-episode documentary "Hong Kong: The Covered Truth" (Hong Kong Returns).
The third episode explores how a "radical minority" dominates the "No Datai" protest movement.
Why did the anti-amendment turmoil in 2019 turn from a peaceful demonstration into a violent conflict?
The yellow and blue camps still have their own opinions. One side blames Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor for ignoring public grievances and insisting on the amendment and the police using excessive force in law enforcement. Sympathy and acquiescence.
Many local media and mainstream media in Europe and the United States undoubtedly chose to "step aside".
Ke Wensi mentioned in the third episode of "Hong Kong: The Covered Truth" that after Lam announced the suspension of the amendment, the protesters still launched a larger-scale demonstration and claimed that 2 million people participated, "This number was unconditionally accepted by the media. It will soon become an undeniable fact”.
"I don't believe the 2 million march number. You ask any demographic analyst, and no one believes it." Senior columnist Nury Vittachi criticized the narrative of many media at the time as wrong, such as many people thinking that the pan-democratic congress was wrong. Most Hong Kong people, or both the yellow and the blue, think that they can represent the silent majority who are not involved in any political activities, but in fact most Hong Kong people are not concerned with politics and are not united in opposing the amendment.
However, no matter how many people took part in the march on June 16, 2019, there was no resistance to the struggle, and the demonstrators also put more pressure on the government.
"The slogan of 'five demands' has become a mantra for Hong Kong's pursuit of democracy and reforms." Ke Wensi was puzzled by this supposedly "no big platform" but rapidly spreading movement, and kept asking who was behind it.
Ke Wensi recently accepted an exclusive interview with "Hong Kong 01", and bluntly expressed that he was angry that the European and American media simplified the anti-amendment turmoil into "a dispute between cowboys and aborigines". Thinking, I also hope that the Hong Kong people who have been torn apart for many times will let go of their prejudices and resolve conflicts.
"Hong Kong 01" is authorized to broadcast "Hong Kong: The Covered Up Truth", which will broadcast two episodes a day since June 23, presenting readers with the "dangerous times" in the eyes of the British director.
Oscar Director's Documentary "Hong Kong: The Covered Truth" (1)｜Hong Kong People Take to the Streets Oscar Director's Documentary "Hong Kong: The Covered Truth" (2)｜The Oscar Director's Documentary "Hong Kong: The Covered Truth" (3)｜Exclusive exclusive interview with radical minority｜Oscar-winning director’s reorganization and amendment scandal Cowens: Hope for Hong Kong people to resolve their hatred and reflect on Hong Kong’s chaos and governance on the anniversary of the National Security Law – who would like this kind of Hong Kong?
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