FADE IN:
INT. CLUBHOUSE - DAY
Looking at a newspaper image, Peter reads its subtitles.
PETER (V.O.)
Forced perspective
photography? A technique
to make something to appear
larger than it actually is?
INT. SLEEPING ROOM - DAY
Waking up, Peter checks incoming messages.
PETER (V.O.)
A video clip from mainland
friends about Hong Kong?
Peter taps the clip on his phone screen. We see and hear a man scolding a woman in public: Don't continue to persuade the young to confront... you take all the political credit... I donated money to support the cause, just to find later that I incited students to confront and die...I've been regretting that for 25 years...Don't brainwash the young anymore!
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
That's an old video clip, but
new to me. The man has
changed, but not her.
Peter does his morning routines.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
I studied Epistemology and
l find facts. I studied Ethics
and I have my own value
judgment. I'm no longer
with the Government and
have no party line to toe.
I'm politically independent.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
For the public, it's difficult
for them to distinguish
between fact and fiction.
They confuse their value
judgment with facts. If
they don't trust China,
whatever arrangement
with China can't be good.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.)
If they get the facts wrong,
they won't suffer, particularly
when their stance is
consistent with the party
line and identity.
Serving the web, Peter finds something.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
There' s an interesting
study. If people are
paid to get the facts right,
they can do it!
INT. STUDY - DAY
Working on his computer, Peter watches BBC. We see Hong Kong's Chief Executive debriefs and hear communications in Cantonese and English, or simultaneous interpretation in English.
PETER (V.O.)
I've been watching BBC
for many years. This's
the first time Hong Kong
can get so much of its
air time!
Q & A sessions. Questions from local media, BBC, CNN and CBS.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
Bill suspension? My
experience in 2000 was
law suspension.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
More time for explanation
and communications?
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
In politics, if one has to explain,
one is defending and losing;
one has to be aggressive to
force the other side to follow
one's agenda.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
Communication only takes
place when the message is
understood. It's very hard
to align political judgment,
unless people, individually
and severally would question
their biases!
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
In the old video clip, the man's
change of stance is telling.
But there're many others
like the woman, who would
never change.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
The Bill's problem is quite
like forced perspective
photography.
BBC continues to report: A massive political defeat...what will happen tomorrow...
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd)
It's US's Happy Father's
Day...
FADE OUT.
The End