Response for 10-19

1. The February 28 incident took place in Taiwan. It was sparked by police beating a woman. Regular people became angry and erupted into riots. The government cracked down on rioters and people that could lead riots, which lead to thousands of people being killed and arrested. Martial Law was instituted for over four decades as a result.
2. City of Sadness does not directly confront what the Nationalist government did in the February 28 incident.
3. The film was somewhat confusing watching it the first time because time would jump considerably sometimes. I would have to reassess what the space and time were to understand the plot. The spaces were mostly the same throughout the film, like the home and the streets, but the actors would change as the boys became older. I would have to put a new face with a name in order to follow the plot. Also, when Hou cut from scene to scene, he would often establish the scene with a space, and I wouldn’t know when the story was taking place.