While harking back to Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement of 2014, We Have Boots focuses on the post-Umbrella era of prosecution, political disqualification, and the resurfacing of Occupy and mass protests in 2019. Featuring Occupy leaders Benny Tai and Chan Kin-man; legislator Shiu Ka-chun; artist Kacey Wong; and young activists, such as Agnes Chow, Tommy Cheung, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Alex Chow, Ray Wong, Hong Kong's first political refugee now residing in Germany, as well as masked militant protesters, the film depicts their personal reflections on their chosen paths - fleeing Hong Kong, pursuing studies overseas, accepting the political cost of dissent by confronting the prospect of imprisonment, or embracing militant combats on the street. A sequel to Raise the Umbrellas, which was about Hong Kong's battle for universal suffrage, We Have Boots is both a portrait of the genealogy of dissent in a post-colonial Chinese city, and of struggles waged, said Time magazine, &qu
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A pro-democracy activist takes part in protests in Hong Kong, November 2014
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In the new Hollywood blockbuster Godzilla vs Kong, Hong Kong becomes the scene of an epic final battle against a monster that threatens to destroy the world. The skyscrapers of the city are reduced to rubble as King Kong slugs it out with the awoken colossus. Though the film wasn’t made by Hong Kong film-makers, it feels symbolic. In the week of its release, a sense of dread increased among the 7.5 million citizens of the territory, as they learned that the legal and governmental independence promised to them for 50 years after the handover of the prosperous British colony to China in 1997 was being dismantled ever more quickly.