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Blue Island: Directed by Tze Woon Chan. Exploring the state of depression among the current citizens on Hong Kong as China consolidates its power over the metropolis.
6/10. Blue Island. CinemaSerf 23 October 2022. Tze Woon Chan sets out to depict the current state of affairs in Hong Kong as the Chinese Communist Party continues to rewrite the treaty that saw it transfer from British rule in 1997 in this interesting but rather poorly constructed documentary.
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse. The movie as a whole emerges as informative, well-shot, and definitely brave, which is where its true value...
29 lip 2022 · 4 min read. The makers of the moving but uneven Hong Kong protesters doc “Blue Island” seem to struggle with how they should dramatize their human subjects given the hostile (or at minimum, unfriendly) working conditions that led them to crowdfund their movie.
With courage and sensitivity, Blue Island confronts the large-scale protests in Hong Kong. A new wave of young people took back the streets, as one generation after another has done throughout...
Documentary. Official Trailer. Exploring the state of depression among the current citizens on Hong Kong as China consolidates its power over the metropolis.
30 kwi 2022 · Large-scale protests by the populace have been brutally suppressed. This mix of documentary, fiction, and visions of the future reveals the current state of desolate depression among the people of Hong Kong. “A desperate attempt to capture the final moments of a sinking island”, as maker Chan Tze-woon himself puts it.
