Taiwan, Malaysia 2016
Details Taipeiff
Seen 3 March 2017
My impressions
A quest to find the reasons why his grandfather was a missing piece in
the family’s photograph leads a man to a nation’s past.
Interviews, recollections of the past. Those who lived during those tumultuous
decades. These are heroes, martyrs to some but traitors and murderers to
others.
The other side of the story, the struggle for independence. Usually we
get the victor’s version. In this film, we hear and ponder the lives of those
who were pursued. They started young, idealistic, patriotic even.
Most of them are in their twilight years and their story must be told
and aired. The other side of the coin. Might not be pleasant, as atrocities
were committed in the name of the struggle. But definitely, food for thought.
Not the textbook version of those years.
