This week in movies you missed: a visit to China, where two citizen journalists sneak over the “Great Firewall” to offer alternatives to government-sanctioned news.
What You Missed
When 27-year-old blogger “Zola” (real name: Zhou Shuguang) hears about a government cover-up, he’s on the case. To mock the official story about a young girl’s death — rumor is, she was murdered — he makes a viral video of himself on the bridge from which she supposedly leapt. Some call it insensitive, but Zola gets hits.
Far away in Beijing, 57-year-old “Tiger Temple” (real name: Zhang Shihe) is on his own crusade. He’s helped the city’s homeless find housing and biked more than 1000 kilometers to shoot footage of farmland flooded with sewage.
Zhang started his dangerous career as a critic of the government with videos of his kitten — because who would censor a talking cat? But now his blogging is starting to attract real attention.
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