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Tuesday, July 2, 2019
New film shows painful legacy of Chinaâs one-child policy
PARIS - To see what Chinaâs one-child policy has done to the most populous country on Earth, you just have to look around you, said acclaimed filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai. âThere is often one child now to six grown-ups. You have the four grandparents and two parents for one child. Itâs a bit unbalanced,â the director added with not a little understatement. âSo Long, My Sonâ, which won its stars Yong Mei and Wang Jingchun the best actor award at the Berlin film festival earlier this year, plunges audiences into the ocean of pain and heartbreak the policy caused. The tragic story of a couple whose only son is drowned in an accident, is an epic account of how families were bent and buckled during the 36 years of the worldâs biggest demographic experiment. âIt made me realise to what extent we as Chinese people lived through something that was completely out of the ordinary and unique in the world,â Wang told AFP just before the film opened in France. âThat is what pushed me to shoot the film,â said the director, who made his name in the West with âBeijing Bicycleâ, a prize-winner at Berlin back in 2001. âGenerally speaking people in China donât live for themselves, or put themselves forward,â he said. - âWe donât control our livesâ âWe are not in control of our own livesâ and everything can be changed by the âsmallest directive from on highâ. âPeople do things for the collective, for the country. That is why every time there is a new policy, even one which has a huge impact on their lives, people tend to bend to it.â When the one-child policy was first adopted in 1979, âpeople kind of understoodâ it was in the countryâs economic interests, Wang said, with three-quarters of the population said to support it. âOf course there were people who fought against it but after 30 years people had accepted it.â Finally getting rid of it four years ago was âa good thingâ, Wang argued, because âit allows people to be more in charge of their own lives, to have more freedom on what kind of family they want to build.â But by the time it was replaced by a two-child policy in 2016, the single child family âhad become anchoredâ in society, the new norm reinforced by the rise of the middle classes. (afp)
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Chinese film director Wang Xiaoshuai, whose new film shows the pain the one-child policy inflicted on families.
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Tuesday, July 2, 2019
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Star Wars characters gather before the Star Wars theme game pitting the Minnesota Twins against the Tampa Bay Rays at Target Field on June 26, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Original âStar Warsâ creators lift lid on special effects challenges
BEVERLY HILLS - Remember the scene when Luke Skywalker failed his first attempt to blow up the Death Star? Or when C3PO chased him up the stairs of his Tatooine desert home? Of course you donât -- both were among countless improvised changes made to the original âStar Warsâ due to budget, time and technological restraints, its creators explained at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills on Thursday. At an event celebrating visual effects innovation in the classic sci-films, luminaries who created George Lucasâs 1977 blockbuster contrasted their world of filming -- and sometimes blowing up -- wooden Star Destroyer models with todayâs digital masterpieces. âThe technology and techniques of the 70s put considerable constraints on the way shots had to be staged,â said John Knoll, chief creative officer of Lucasfilm effects company Industrial Light and Magic (ILM).
âBy that I donât mean just whether it looked good or not but whether you could actually put the thing together at all!â He pointed to the suit worn by C3PO actor Anthony Daniels, which severely restricted his vision and range of motion in the original films. On two occasions where the robotic character is supposed to follow humans up or down stairs, editors had to cut or pan away just in time to obscure the impossibility of Daniels tackling the steps in his clunky suit. By contrast, the human-shaped droid in 2016âs Star Wars film Rogue One was entirely CGI. While the first film was put together in a stuffy Los Angeles warehouse with no air-conditioning for $11 million, Rogue One cost
$200 million to produce. Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar for editing âStar Wars,â explained how she cobbled together an early impression of the filmâs climactic fight scene from World War Two footage, to assist the visual effects artists -- and realized a drastic change was required. âIn the script when Luke goes down and makes his trench run he uses the computer and he misses the shot,â she said. âSo he goes back up to a dogfight, he has to go down again and make a second run.â Viewing her footage, the team agreed to cut out the first run entirely. âILM was very pleased that they didnât have to do half of the special effects shots that happened when he made two runs,â said Lucas, ex-wife of George, adding: âWe saved some money!â (afp)
Indonesia President Joko Widodo arrives for the family photo at the G20 Osaka Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019.
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Jokowi calls on Indonesians to forget political differences
JAKARTA - President-elect Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has called on all Indonesians to forget differences in political choices during the presidential election, and to reunite as one nation. âI call on all the Indonesian people to forget differences in political choices that have disunited us. Number 02 and 01, we must be reunited as one Indonesia, a nation with Pancasila to unite us,â Jokowi said in his address at the plenary meeting of the General Election Commission (KPU) here on Sunday. Pancasila is Indonesiaâs state
ideology consisting of five tenets -- belief in one and the only God Almighty, humanity, unity, democracy and social justice. Jokowi, accompanied by vice president-elect KH Maâruf Amin, has thanked the Indonesian people for theirs trust in the pair. He was also grateful to the KPU that has completed its task
to organize the elections, and to name the president-elect and vice president-elect through an open plenary meeting. Jokowi has promised to work hard to continue the development during his first term in office with Vice President Jusuf Kalla. The General Election Commission has named Joko Widodo-KH
Maâruf Amin as president-elect and vice president-elect for 20192024 term in a plenary meeting at the KPU building in Jakarta on Sunday. âDeclare candidate pair number 01 Joko Widodo and KH Maâruf Amin as president-elect and vice president-elect in the presidential election 2019,â KPU chairman Arief Budiman said. Jokowi-Maâruf won the election with 85.607.362 votes or
55.5 percent of the votes, while Prabowo and Sandiaga Uno garnered 68.650.239 votes or 44.5 percent.(ant) News can also be heard in âBali Imageâ at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.