When it comes to the Chinese Communist Party cracking down on dissent, you can always count on history repeating itself, over and over again. Older Hongkongers learned that lesson watching the Mainland from afar, whereas the younger generation learned it first-hand during the 2019 Extradition Law Protests.
The Umbrella generation of activists come together with their elder dissenters for dialogue and to recreate defining incidents from latter’s lives in Chan Tze-woon’s hybrid-documentary “Blue Island.”
Chan Hak-chi is like a Hong Kong Jack Lalanne. The septuagenarian has the physique of a man one quarter of his age, partly due to his daily habit of swimming in Victoria Harbor. In addition to exercise, the practice has personal meaning, since he twice tried to flee the Cultural Revolution by swimming.
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