Chinese Independent Film Series 華語獨立電影系列 I

Hand in Hand 《牽阮的手》

A real yet dramatic story of a couple who not only fight for their forbidden love, but also for democracy in their beloved country. Sixty years ago, when high-school student Tian Meng-shu fell for the scholastic Dr. Tian Chao-ming, who was then already in his thirties, they courageously ran away in the face of strong opposition from the girl’s family. And yet more hardship and sacrifices were bound to come as Dr. Tian had always been an uncompromising activist against the suppressive governance of the ruling Kuomintang. As the film traces the two’s epic love story from the 50s’ to the present, it also provides a detailed, vivid portrayal of the period of White Terror in Taiwan since then, as well as the series of social movements set forth by the daring democrats. Threading together interviews, archival footages and even animation to realistically construct the political upheavals that the Tian couples and their fellow activists had gone through, this award-winning documentary promises an impressive narration of history that cannot and should never be forgotten.

《無米樂》(2004) 導演最新作品，兩導演受台灣公視邀請拍攝一名老人家，一查之下原來是現年78歲仍活躍台灣民運界的田孟淑。人稱田媽媽的她，當年尚未高中畢業便與比她大16歲的田朝明醫師相戀，不顧家人極力反對而私奔。本片以他們倆的愛情為主軸，一拍之下竟耗時五年才告完成，最後更與公視解約，因為要談二人的戀愛，亦不得不同時回顧台灣二戰以後的本土歷史──1945年，台灣「光復」，人心一片歡騰，豈料隨即以1947年二二八事件為序幕，兩年後正式步入長達38年的白色恐怖時期。談及台灣50至80年代末這段歷史，你或許未聽過田氏夫婦的名字，但他們正是歷史書裡不一定介紹，卻為民主訴求默默付出的平民鬥士：早已被列為「歧異份子」的田醫師，遇著政治犯家屬求助，依然在醫館裡安排他們與國際特赦組織秘密會面；因美麗島事件而入獄的民運份子，幾乎沒誰沒吃過田媽媽包的粽子… 即使來到2006影片開拍時，田媽媽需要照顧中風仰床的田爸，自己身體亦大不如前，她還是堅持坐著輪椅出席大小民主運動，延續田爸從相戀當天起所教曉她的抗爭精神。
為了更生動地活現出過往場景，導演除了運用大量舊文書、老照片、紀實錄像作為歷史佐證，更不惜工本以動畫重現種種社會及個人事故，輔以田媽媽和相關人物的口述，舖陳出這段跨越半世紀的婚姻之餘，更重要的還有我和你不可不知的台灣歷史傷痕，與及一個又一個為民主進程而犧牲的名字。「牽阮的手」，牽著的不單是戀人的手，還有高舉自由旗幟的一雙手，貫徹如一，始終不老。

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