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The film Ten Years which accurately predicted Today’s Hong Kong

(13 Jul) "Ten Years" is a dystopian film produced in Hong Kong and released in 2015. It tells five speculative tales of the state of Hong Kong in 2025 as the Chinese government tightens its grip on the Special Administrative Region.

One short story is "Local Egg", which provides a glimpse into how a grocery storekeeper and his son, a member of the Youth Guard, grapples with the insidious changes enforced by the government. Sam, the storekeeper, questions the Youth Guard when they tell him that his label, "local eggs", is on the censor list but relabeling them as "Hong Kong eggs" is allowed.

Ming, Sam's son, provides a reply slip for him to sign later that day. He reads it aloud, "Youth Guard Commander is authorized to assign your son covert operations. Parents are not necessarily informed." He expresses concern for Ming warns him against blindly following the Youth Guard's orders.

The next day, Sam discovers the Youth Guards pelting the closed storefront of a bookshop with eggs. Among them is Ming, standing with a closed carton of untouched eggs. Sam asks what he is doing and Ming responds, "I'm obliged to come, I don't know what I should do." As Sam leads Ming to help clean up, the bookshop keeper introduces himself and reveals that Ming was the one who warned him that the Youth Guard would come to vandalise his business.

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Source: Jack Dawson’s Facebook
Written by: Hong Kong Echo

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