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it is not because this is a documentary so it must tell about the truth!


i am pretty sick of documentaries like this. i haven't seen it yet, but according to what i have known about Ai Weiwei's case, i don't think Chinese goverment really did anything wrong in terms of handling it. I am a chinese myself right now staying in Beijing at the moment. I have earlier visited an exhibition on Ai Weiwei's works and what he had been doing in order to "fight" against the authority in China to rescue someone in Stockholm Sweden. There was a video shown there at the exhibition documenting what he did to communicate with the local authorities in order to rescue someone whom was put somewhere for political reasons. Honestly i did not in even a second think that the chinese authorities did anything wrong to put someone in a certain place whom possibly had the potential to damage the stability of the society of the country through his words or behaviours. I mean that is basically what every country does right? Unlike in some other countries where this kind of people will get to be executed, the chinese goverment did not do anything to harm them. Instead people like that have been put somewhere where they have got nothing to worry about but living with enough food and pretty decent living conditions. In every country, if one is trying to do anything which leads to a result which will make a huge damage to the stability of the society in the country, that person will surely get the attention of the government and be considered as a threat. There is nothing simpler than this to be understood - if the country would still like to be able to stand still, any threat to this goal needs to be cleared. The issue is, some of these people might tell the truth about what they think about the goverment or what the government has been doing. But we surely cannot deny there are also a bunch of people who are just telling lies. There are various kinds of people in this world. some are nice, kind, wanting to live in peace with everyone else. Some are just greedy and hungry for power and fortunes all the time and ready to do anything and everything to make his or her own desires fulfilled. I am not saying that Ai Weiwei is like that. In fact, I really do not know anything about him at all except for he is somehow considered as an artist overseas. Honestly the works of his at the exhibition in Stockholm did not get me inspired in any way at all either. I just feel like to say that it is rather important that we can think by ourselves instead of making any perceptions through watching any so-called "documentaries". I mean god knows if the "documentary" really tells the truth or not and if it is made with the subjective perspective of the film maker embedded. Since everything has at least the positives and the negatives, it is highly important not to make any conclusion so fast but rather to look at the case more objectively especially when it involves some political or social issues.

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