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 Moving the Mountain 
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Moving the Mountain is a 1994 feature documentary directed by Michael Apted and produced by Trudie Styler, with cinematography by Maryse Alberti and music by Liu Sola.

The film takes its title from the memoir by Li Lu, one of the student leaders of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Though Li Lu is a central figure in the finished film, the project set out to provide a comprehensive understanding of the events leading up to and following the Tiananmen Square protests. The film features interviews with five of the student leaders (Wang Dan, Chai Ling, Wu'er Kaixi, Wang Chaohua and Li Lu), several supporters of the movement and Wei Jingsheng, a prominent dissident who led the Democracy Wall movement of 1978. Interviews with Wang Dan, number 1 on the government's most-wanted list, and Wei Jingsheng were conducted in secret in Beijing, with the remaining interviews conducted in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles. the film includes extensive archival footage from the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Incident of 1976, the Death of Mao Zedong in 1976, the Democracy Wall movement of 1978, and the protests of 1989. This footage was supplemented by dramatic recreations of key childhood events in the life of Li Lu filmed in Taiwan and of the escape routes of several student leaders filmed in Hong Kong.


Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:22 am
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An excellent documentary, maybe more so if one has a particular interest in this part of Chinese history. It feels like a real turning point as to how China has formed into its current centralized state, with heavy people monitoring and control. It's interesting to hear from the then student leaders which started the Tiananmen Square protests about their thoughts and ideals. It does pretty much only address the events, leading up to and after the Tiananmen Square massacre, from one side, that of the protesters, that as whole story it still feel somewhat incomplete. But the film offers a great perspective nonetheless of what transpired, with impressive archival footage and succeeds giving a unique look into a dark moment of recent Chinese history.

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It does pretty much only address the events, leading up to and after the Tiananmen Square massacre, from one side, that of the protesters, that as whole story it still feel somewhat incomplete.


This is an odd thing to write. What is the other side of this massacre, exactly? I mean, we already have the official state narrative: "Nothing To See Here". If that doesn't complete the story for you, I don't think anything ever will.

Anyway, this documentary is exemplary, and it is a shame that more people haven't seen it. Instead, it has nosedived into obscurity, probably (and uncoincidentally [and sadly]) a consequence of the power the Chinese Communist Party has over western entertainment.

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Yeah, it may be hard to a better look at it from the government's side at the time, considering how heavily censored the subject is. But I would like to have seen, and will still try to dig a bit on this, on what the government was thinking at the time. And also not just the government's side, I wonder how the rest of the population felt about and experienced that time as well.

But this documentary is a gem for sure, it gives a piercing look behind a controversial subject, where only very little public information is available on it.


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