Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower Page #4

Synopsis: When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and occupy the streets, Joshua becomes an unlikely leader in Hong Kong and one of China's most notorious dissidents.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Joe Piscatella
Production: Netflix
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
TV-14
Year:
2017
79 min
510 Views


This one.

You can sit here.

Testing. One. Two.

Hi, everyone,

we'll begin the press conference now.

Today's press conference

is about the end of Scholarism.

Hi, everyone, I'm Derek, from Scholarism.

This is the last time for me

to introduce myself in this way.

I hope when Scholarism's name

is heard in the future,

people will recall some beautiful moments.

We were a bunch of kids

fighting hard in the streets.

I understand

that this news is hard to believe.

To be honest,

we've been discussing

the end of Scholarism for a long time.

This is a difficult decision.

But for us, we cannot let sentimentality

decide the future of Scholarism.

Instead, we need to think rationally

about what political action is needed

for the future of Hong Kong.

Last summer we began discussing

the future of Scholarism.

We discussed how a political party

and a student group could develop.

We are planning

to launch a new political party

and planning to run in the election

to get a seat in the Legislative Council

and to let the voice of the new generation

to enter the institution.

The Umbrella Movement proved

that if you only work on the street,

it's not enough,

because when you occupy the road,

the government

will not give a sh*t about you.

If we really want to do the real protest,

we have to stop the government.

And the way we can stop the government

is to get into the Legislative Council.

We have a very clear political aim

of fighting for Hong Kong

because we believe that Hong Kong people

should have the right

to decide our own future.

I believe we can win a seat

in the election.

Cheers to our wasted youth!

Each of us should say some

sincere words to Joshua.

Why don't we play another game?

Shut up!

What should I say to Joshua?

You're a really shitty video-game player.

How can you be so bad at it?

You rarely beat me.

I met Joshua when I joined.

At the time I thought,

why is this guy so arrogant?

Then I found that Joshua

is a good guy to work with.

He's a trustworthy guy.

He won't betray you.

I know this in my heart.

I'm really glad

that I was a member of Scholarism before,

because if I did not enter Scholarism

four years ago,

In Scholarism,

I have a lot of good memories

and I have a lot of good experiences.

I guess it's time to start something new.

And we can't keep saying that

"I'm a student and I am so pure."

Now we have to face the real politics.

It is a little bit sad,

but it's just like growing to be an adult.

I believe that the government

are really scared of the new generation,

because we are the ones who can

really pressure the Chinese government.

The Chinese government is scared of us

because we never give up,

and we have unlimited energy

to fight against them.

It's Hong Kong.

And, yeah, we have to try to save it.

They can't stop all of us.

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