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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Laurentius Joannes Vong
The movie includes 5 stories on the prediction of Hong Kong ten years later. Taxi drivers had to speak Mandarin to earn their lives, protesters had to commit suicide to attract the society and media's attention to strive for independent for Hong Kong, a list of forbidden words was created and the kids were told to follow the unreasonable instructions, etc. It might sound impossible in other countries like the US, it is very possible that the future of Hong Kong would be the same. It's sad story for HKers.
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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.