Marvin Borisch
Als ich "Ten Years" gesehen habe, wusste ich noch nicht, worauf ich mich einlasse. Während des Filmes wurde mir klar, wie wichtig dieses Werk nicht nur für Hong Kong, sondern für die ganze Welt ist. Besonders haben mich "Dialect" und "Local Egg" berührt. Beide Geschichten zeigen unter Bedacht des Zeitgeist, wie spalterisch die Spannung in der Region ist. Mit solchen Alltagsgeschichten, die nicht nur wunder schön anzusehen sind, sondern auch tief unter die Haut gehen, kann sich jeder Ottonormalbürger identifizieren. Während diese fiktiven dystopischen Geschichten Angst hervorrufen, so lindern sie diese auch wieder. Denn jede Dystopie ist eine Erörterung der Probleme, die weise Menschen dazu animiert, für diese Lösungen zu finden. "Ten Years" ist ein großartiges Werk für jede Person, die sich für Unterdrückung, Spaltung und Machtmissbrauch in Regimen interessiert, oder einfach nur in die Ängste von Unterdrückten hineinversetzen möchte.
Andrew Chiu-kit Tsang
As a film school graduate, I never watch "十年 Ten Years". I only find out the plot summary at Wikipedia and I had my jaw drop especially for the short story "Extra". All the plots of Ten Year's short stories are "very powerful" and no wonder China government is very worried. This movie smacks Xi, Jinping face real hard or he already watched the movie and sweating. 十年is a warning call to President Xi that his country will look like if he continues what he is doing. If "Ten Years" is a race car, the producers accidentally create a race winning car at a very low cost with great chassis and very powerful engine with a lot of torque. If this movie got a good distributor and reach the judge of Academy Award, I won't be surprised if it wins a nomination for Best Foreign Movie. I predict 十年 would out gun Infernal Affairs. This is a movie that the western world would love. Its producers should have a wider vision to make it a global sensation. Finally, I wish Hong Kongers should never over-react by 50-cent-gang's provocative words. They just fake opinions produced by the China government.
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Yasmin Subba
Ten Years embodies the essence of Hong Kong's old world cinema hub glamour. Name the most uncomfortable but unavoidable topics that are relevant in the city today, and Ten Years addresses them with deft and poignancy from China's unwanted interference with the city to protest ideology, racial segregation and language preservation. This masterpiece is a jarring wake up call to viewers on the plight of Hong Kong's unique culture and freedoms. Pro-Chinese Communist Party critics condemn this cinematic feat as cynical fearmongering, but that very criticism, delivered through heavily state controlled media, screams aloud that confronting the city's erosion of freedoms is more important than ever. The phrase "must see" has never applied to any movie more than Ten Years.
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