Memories of his four-year journey focused on the Hong Kong protests. Narrated in the first person, is rich with reflections and contemplations, most intertwined with feelings of guilt.
Direction
Lau weaponizes first-person narration like a confession booth.
Editing
Four years collapsed into haunting, disorienting memory fragments.
Director
Alan Lau
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Released amid tightened censorship, this became one of the last unvarnished protest documentaries legally available in certain territories.
The title inverts a known quote to suggest preferring destruction over passive acceptance — the film's entire ethical engine.
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