We Have Boots

(2020)

★ 7 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2020

Runtime: 130 мин

Country: Hong Kong, United States of America

Director: 陳耀成

Cast: Chan Kin-Man, Benny Tai Yiu-ting, Shiu Ka-chun, Agnes Chow, Alex Chow Wing Hong, Ray Toi-Yeung Wong, Edward Leung, Joshua Wong

Plot

The Umbrella Movement of 2014, also known as the Occupy Movement, paved the way for Hong Kong’s current upheavals, but unfolded in significantly different ways. This creative documentary focuses on the intellectual, political, and discursive underpinnings of the social and political actions of 2014, before fast-forwarding to 2019. A range of thoughtful and engaged intellectuals, students, scholars, activists, and artists including Benny Tai, Chan Kin-man, Ray Wong, and Agnes Chow (many of whom are facing imprisonment for their democratic activism) articulate a range of philosophies, viewpoints and emotions, set against Hong Kong’s spectacular urban background of skyscrapers, night lights, and street-occupying mass movements.