Dialogue between Blue & Green
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Release Year:
2013
Story:
Taiwan’s democracy and freedom are generally envied by the Chinese world. At the same time, Taiwan’s blue-green dispute often casts a shadow over other Chinese’s impression of democracy. When the previous generation quarreled over blue-green ideology, how did the new generation of Taiwanese young people view blue-green? Will they still be incompatible with the "blue-green problem"? In order to find the answer to this question, we gathered young people from different political parties a year and a half before the 2012 presidential election. Among them are dark blue, dark green, light blue, light green, and some are neither blue nor green, and their values are different. They are different, but they also rarely have the opportunity to "sit down and talk about politics" with people of different ideas. Through this deliberately arranged long-term dialogue experiment, what kind of chemical changes will occur between them?
Taiwan’s democracy and freedom are generally envied by the Chinese world. At the same time, Taiwan’s blue-green dispute often casts a shadow over other Chinese’s impression of democracy. When the previous generation quarreled over blue-green ideology, how did the new generation of Taiwanese young people view blue-green? Will they still be incompatible with the "blue-green problem"? In order to find the answer to this question, we gathered young people from different political parties a year and a half before the 2012 presidential election. Among them are dark blue, dark green, light blue, light green, and some are neither blue nor green, and their values are different. They are different, but they also rarely have the opportunity to "sit down and talk about politics" with people of different ideas. Through this deliberately arranged long-term dialogue experiment, what kind of chemical changes will occur between them?
Casts & Crews:
Fu Yu
Directors
Runtime:
76
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Director‘s Statement:
"Blue-Green Dialogue Lab" is my second documentary about voters in Taiwan. In the last film, I filmed two families with different political stances. The dialogue between them is a record of the previous generation; this time, I photographed a group of young people with different political stances. 80% of them are "first voters," which is the young generation who will cast their first vote in the 2012 presidential election.
Many friends see that I am so keen on filming political issues in Taiwan and find it difficult to understand. Simply put, I may be commonly known as a "political fanatic." For some reason, the seemingly boring political discussions of many young people in Taiwan are, to me, extremely precious treasures that I am willing to work hard to dig. My father is a Malaysian overseas student who came to Taiwan to study and settled in Taiwan after studying in Taiwan, while my mother is an Indonesian overseas Chinese who came to Taiwan at the age of nine. Because of their growing background, they deeply identify with the Republic of China and are extremely disgusted with the DPP. Maybe it is because my family environment made me realize the relationship of politics very late when I was a child, or maybe it was because of the relationship between the ethnic identity that appears vague under the definition of the four major ethnic groups. I always pay special attention to the ethnic identity factors that lead to the current political situation in Taiwan. It’s also easy to realize how the differences in ethnic identity caused by history have been democratized in Taiwan for nearly 25 years. They still secretly affect everyone’s preferences, dislikes, choices, and judgments about politics, even if most people are based on emphasizing Reason does not want to admit the connection between these.
In this way, I am getting more and more into the world of "caring about Taiwan’s political development." This world is full of idealists who dream of reforms. On the other hand, I still have many friends who rarely care about politics. They care more about life. Other more important things. When "Even if you don't look for politics, politics will come to you", "Beyond the blue and green, to create a real civil society in Taiwan" similar statements have long been called for in one of the worlds to become almost a cliché. This kind of remarks has never been heard in a world. For them, politics is not a matter of concern to ordinary citizens, not to mention that there are so many things in their lives that require attention, such as love, schoolwork, work, creation, entertainment, Religion, event is thinking about the essence of life. Being in these two states at the same time often leaves me with a sense of confusion close to schizophrenia. Indeed, everyone’s time is precious. What reason do I have to think that this boring film discussing Taiwan’s politics should allow more people to waste 80 minutes watching it? Even after reading it, spend more time thinking about Taiwan's political issues and the future?
Perhaps this is beyond the scope of my film. Compared with the gap between blue and green, the gap between the above two worlds is larger and deeper. As the director of this documentary, although I am a political fanatic, I also like to eat food, travel, and watch movies. I am worried that I will not be able to give birth to children when I am getting older. I have no time to raise children. I also work and create. I worry about how to balance my interests, but I still believe that understanding politics and thinking about politics do not conflict with these lives. All I know is that when I started to treat "politics" as an important subject of life, I never felt that life was boring or meaningless. Perhaps it was because I still had a glimmer of hope to change the status quo. Of course, this refers to "Politics" is not only "blue and green".
Many friends see that I am so keen on filming political issues in Taiwan and find it difficult to understand. Simply put, I may be commonly known as a "political fanatic." For some reason, the seemingly boring political discussions of many young people in Taiwan are, to me, extremely precious treasures that I am willing to work hard to dig. My father is a Malaysian overseas student who came to Taiwan to study and settled in Taiwan after studying in Taiwan, while my mother is an Indonesian overseas Chinese who came to Taiwan at the age of nine. Because of their growing background, they deeply identify with the Republic of China and are extremely disgusted with the DPP. Maybe it is because my family environment made me realize the relationship of politics very late when I was a child, or maybe it was because of the relationship between the ethnic identity that appears vague under the definition of the four major ethnic groups. I always pay special attention to the ethnic identity factors that lead to the current political situation in Taiwan. It’s also easy to realize how the differences in ethnic identity caused by history have been democratized in Taiwan for nearly 25 years. They still secretly affect everyone’s preferences, dislikes, choices, and judgments about politics, even if most people are based on emphasizing Reason does not want to admit the connection between these.
In this way, I am getting more and more into the world of "caring about Taiwan’s political development." This world is full of idealists who dream of reforms. On the other hand, I still have many friends who rarely care about politics. They care more about life. Other more important things. When "Even if you don't look for politics, politics will come to you", "Beyond the blue and green, to create a real civil society in Taiwan" similar statements have long been called for in one of the worlds to become almost a cliché. This kind of remarks has never been heard in a world. For them, politics is not a matter of concern to ordinary citizens, not to mention that there are so many things in their lives that require attention, such as love, schoolwork, work, creation, entertainment, Religion, event is thinking about the essence of life. Being in these two states at the same time often leaves me with a sense of confusion close to schizophrenia. Indeed, everyone’s time is precious. What reason do I have to think that this boring film discussing Taiwan’s politics should allow more people to waste 80 minutes watching it? Even after reading it, spend more time thinking about Taiwan's political issues and the future?
Perhaps this is beyond the scope of my film. Compared with the gap between blue and green, the gap between the above two worlds is larger and deeper. As the director of this documentary, although I am a political fanatic, I also like to eat food, travel, and watch movies. I am worried that I will not be able to give birth to children when I am getting older. I have no time to raise children. I also work and create. I worry about how to balance my interests, but I still believe that understanding politics and thinking about politics do not conflict with these lives. All I know is that when I started to treat "politics" as an important subject of life, I never felt that life was boring or meaningless. Perhaps it was because I still had a glimmer of hope to change the status quo. Of course, this refers to "Politics" is not only "blue and green".
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