How Was History Wounded?

In this film we see three commentators sitting in front of a TV in a news studio discussing the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 as reported by local and foreign media. Not only did the waves of student protests in Tiananmen Square command media attention around the world, it also attracted the governing authority of Taiwan to cover the issue to its own benefit. With help of the Taiwanese news media, the government manipulated the event in a dramatic manner, as to consolidate the governing power and strengthen people’s anti-communist sentiments. This film aims to examine the politics of image and the image of politics through commenting on the topics of democracy, media control, consumption and commercialism.