"A loving mother has many failures, a strict father produces a filial son" is very appropriate in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Singapore is a strict father-style society known for its strict and severe governance. Hong Kong has lagged behind Singapore in various policies in recent years because Singapore has a strict government team and a society that values discipline.
Compared with Hong Kong, the description of "a loving mother and a loser" is actually very true.
The recent social debates and discussions caused by the movie "For Me at Nineteen" reflect the two sides of "compassion". Too much "strictness" will suffocate society, and too much "compassion" will lead to "prodigal".
"To My Nineteen-Year-Old Me" is a very educational documentary, and its original intention is education.
Yinghua Girls' School has always been known for its "openness". You can see in the documentary that Yinghua Girls' School has a "charity-based" education model. It does not force students to do anything. It fully cooperates with youth career planning and youth development, so that youth There are multiple developments.
In the movie, several different female students present different family situations and different life styles, which are very good career planning education materials.
I believe the problem is that when the documentary becomes a commercial film for public release, it is not too much for the distributor to package an educational documentary in the form of a feature film, which will generate a "dramatic" social response, and I also understand that the film is recorded female students, there is a feeling of being watched like animals in a zoo.
The original intention of this film is not a commercial film, but a documentary used to inherit the tradition of Yinghua Girls' School.
Therefore, I think the decision of director Zhang Wanting and Yinghua Girls' School to stop broadcasting is completely correct.
In fact, this movie should be free for all middle school students in Hong Kong to watch, and should cooperate with the teaching materials to discuss the issue of career planning.
This is a very educational and valuable movie, especially it is in the most turbulent era in Hong Kong in the past ten years. From the 2019 black riot in Occupy Central, you will see how ordinary people face life in these days.
The most disappointing thing about this whole thing is the reaction of the Secretary for Education, Cai Ruolian, and the bureaucrats of the Education Bureau. They immediately showed the bureaucratic style of "it's none of my business" and "I haven't seen it", and the Privacy Commissioner initiated bureaucratic procedures.
The entire government doesn't care about education at all. If it really cares about education, the problem with this movie is not to go through bureaucratic procedures to find privacy issues, but to use an appropriate form to display and express it.
It was meant to be an educational documentary, not an entertainment business model.
It is also wrong to nominate this film for the three major awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards, because "For My Nineteen-Year-Old Me" is not a feature film.
What is the most important thing for adults to do in front of young people?
It is to let young people learn how to distinguish right from wrong, instead of using labels to determine right and wrong.
The vulgar society in Hong Kong is used to being like a courtroom drama: I am a defense lawyer, representing justice, and will use every means to prove that I am right; I am the prosecution, representing the government, which is not justice.
If I were the defense.
So justice is just a language game, rather than a real exploration of the essence and truth of things.
Education is not a courtroom game, education is not a label of right and wrong, what education teaches is methods, abilities, skills and values.
Why should schools cultivate "moral, intellectual, physical, social, and aesthetic"?
It is that these five elements can constitute the different skills and different consciousnesses that a person needs to exist in society.
The various responses to the public release of "To My Nineteen-Year-Old Me" just happened to be a good educational material for discussing with students what the "essence of education" is and what is personal privacy.
In today's technological society, there is no privacy at all. As soon as a baby is born, parents upload their baby photos to social platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. Is this respect for privacy?
If people from all parties really cherish Hong Kong as a place, they should immediately stop the "emotional pumping" behavior and return to the original aspiration of education.
The original intention of education is to let students learn how to know themselves and how to choose their own future, instead of blindly following the trend, not being controlled by emotions, but rationally understanding their own limitations and strengths, and then making choices about their life journey.
The female classmate wrote 10,000 words to express her opinion. This is a young person expressing her feelings. Whether she is right or wrong is not a problem. She can express herself in 10,000 words, which is a very important way in itself.
The movie "To My Nineteen-Year-Old Me" is super positive in nature.
However, various conspiracy theories and motivational theories appeared on many KOLs or social media, making discussions and accusations that have nothing to do with the documentary, reflecting the quality of certain types of Hong Kong people.
It is a pity that such values now occupy Hong Kong society.
After the incident in 2019, Hong Kong people still haven't reflected on it. Neither the "yellow" nor the "blue" have any intention to reflect on the root of the problems in 2019.
The "yellow" and "blue" mainstreams in Hong Kong have completely ruined Hong Kong's tradition of being rational, systematic, methodical, organized, and capable over the past few decades.
So it is right for a loving mother to lose her children.
The central government is too kind to Hong Kong, so this chaos occurred in Hong Kong.
The "Hong Kong National Security Law" is a reminder. After 2019, Chairman Xi and other central leaders have earnestly reminded the establishment to deal with four hopes. They are: (1) focus on improving the level of governance; (3) Effectively resolve people's livelihood difficulties; (4) Jointly maintain harmony and stability.
However, the Hong Kong establishment still seems to be living in the former political hothouse, unaware of the crisis of changing reality.
The recent minimalist public housing is a typical example.
"To My Nineteen-Year-Old Me" has been accused of emotional blackmail, but the Hong Kong government is actually an expert in emotional blackmail.
This time, the simple public housing project is launched. The government’s strategy is basically to use emotional blackmail to blackmail the society and members of the Legislative Council. A simple public housing project full of loopholes is forcibly launched. 35 members of the Legislative Council were blackmailed by the government’s sadness to support the project. , This is another example of Hong Kong government bureaucrats defeating Hong Kong's wealth.
In fact, this is not the first time that the West Kowloon Cultural District, the Shatin to Central Link, the South Island Line, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the third runway of the airport and other overrun projects have been dealt with by the government with emotional blackmail. , saying that stopping the project will cause workers to lose the opportunity to start work and lead to unemployment.
A vulgar society favors emotional blackmail over rational discussion.
Take a look at Singapore, where "a strict father produces a filial son". It is not just "filial piety", but a methodical way of doing things. Every construction project will not be carried out by means of emotional blackmail, but calculated according to reasonable procedures. number.
What about Hong Kong?
Without proper planning and planning, the project was eagerly forced to mount.
Therefore, the emotional blackmail expert must be the Hong Kong government.
Simple public housing is an engineering issue, which must be approved by engineering logic, not by emotional blackmail.
The simple public housing project does nothing to solve the problem of subdivided housing. It is just another project for the engineering company, and they can say that there are not enough workers and that foreign labor is needed.
The Federation of Trade Unions opposes the introduction of foreign labor, but they encourage the government to open projects indiscriminately. Isn't it indirectly creating conditions for the introduction of foreign labor?
The central government's accountability for the governance of the Hong Kong government should be in the direction of "a strict father produces a dutiful son".
Hong Kong society is generally rational, but it is currently being emotionally blackmailed and manipulated by bureaucrats.
Therefore, the central government should be strict and require officials to do their homework and research before launching policy plans.
The problem of subdivided housing is inextricably linked, and simple public housing is only in line with the model of technocrats who only know how to build buildings. It does not help at all to solve the ecological problems of subdivided housing.
The future of Hong Kong needs stricter governance, not playing the low-minded game of emotional blackmail.
The author Hu Enwei is a member of the National Hong Kong and Macao Studies Association, a member of the Jiangsu Provincial CPPCC, and Zuni.
Joint Art Director and CEO of Icosahedron.
The article is only the opinion of the author and does not represent the position of Hong Kong 01.
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