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Formosa Betrayed (2009)
Pure garbage propaganda
Never have I seen a propaganda film release to the public like its a Hollywood film. I repeat, it's a propaganda film. Nothing in the film is base on true history.
There's a group of radical Taiwanese who wants the independence of Taiwan. It's a very minor group. The best comparison in American history is the people of modern South who still believed in Confederacy.
This radical group of Taiwanese wants international attention, so it decided to package a propaganda film into a Hollywood dramatized product.
It cannot find any Taiwanese who take its idea seriously, so the people of the Pro TI group decided to go to Thailand to hire a bunch of cheap labors to do its deed. The Thai people don't care about Taiwanese politic, so some demonstration scenes contain many paid Thai lethargically raising their hands on a topic they have no interest.
There's many dialogs about Taiwanese that's absolutely misleading. I repeat, it's propaganda film, so it doesn't surprise anyone. One of the actors claimed Taiwanese was speaking their native language "Taiwanese", and NOT Chinese. It's not true. These Taiwanese were speaking "Min Nan", which is the language derives from Fujian, a province of China.
There's also an over emphasis of the 228 incident. The people who were killed were highly educated rich folks and land owners. Normal Taiwanese at that time didn't have free time to demonstrate politically. Of course the decedents of the rich folks decided it was bad for them in Taiwan. That's why they abandoned Taiwan and immigrated to US. You have to be ultra rich guy to be able to travel abroad back then. I believe the producer is one of the decedents. Of course, no real normal people care about this 228 stuff.
Finally, Henry Wen (Liu in real life)in the film was murdered because he was a triple agent (PRC, Taiwan and FBI).
Star Trek (2009)
This is your grand father's Star Trek with Abrams' action.
What is Star Trek? It is an extremely puzzling question. The creator of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry's visions of Star Trek are: morality play, adventure/mystery (to boldly go where no one has gone before). When Gene died, Rick Berman (executive producer) took over. His vision of Star Trek included many recycled clichés from previous ST episodes, the famous technobabbles, the aliens of the week, the weekly Phaser battles in the alley and the contrived writing. The die-hard fans, Trekkies, have different vision of Star Trek. Trekkies view Star Trek as a fictional universe. They value the custom design, the alien design, and the existed canon as the cores of Star Trek.
The movie Star Trek is marketed as "Not your father's Star Trek". Its aim is to attract the casual movie fans and the hardcore fans.
*Spoilers Alert*
In the movie, a Romulan villain, Nero, time traveled by accident to young James T. Kirk's era hoping to revenge against the Federation.
*Spoilers End*
The movie managed to mix stunning space battles with a lot of clichés from the old Star Trek. No doubt that casual movie viewers who don't understand Trek will be heart boiled because of the cinematic choreography and the visual excellence. Majority of Star Trek fans will love the funny clichés. The writing staff of the movie managed to use the time paradox to circumvent the canonical paradox created due to REBOOTING the franchise. This move will appease the die hard Trekkies. They too will be content. In every way, JJ Abrams and his crews has managed to accomplish the impossible, to satisfy every viewer group. Still, one question still lingers after watching this masterpiece.
Is this movie a Star Trek by using the original definition from Gene Roddenberry?
The clear answer is no. The movie does not involve with morality, mystery and adventure. Without incorporating these concepts, this movie lacks the SOUL of Star Trek. It is but a shell of itself.
Ironically, the movie did not scrap away the old Star Trek like Paramount promised. It is full of background clichés and stories base on the previous Star Trek movies and shows. It is still your grandfather's Star Trek.