Film and Constitutional Controversy Book contents
- Film and Constitutional Controversy
- Law in Context
- Film and Constitutional Controversy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Love in a Time of Transition:
- 2 Laughing at the Law:
- 3 Women’s Rights and Censorship:
- 4 The Common Law after 1997:
- 5 A Matter of National Security:
- 6 Choosing the Leader:
- 7 Scenes from a Traumatic Event:
- Coda:
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
Coda:
Wong Kar-wai’s 2046
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2021
- Film and Constitutional Controversy
- Law in Context
- Film and Constitutional Controversy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Love in a Time of Transition:
- 2 Laughing at the Law:
- 3 Women’s Rights and Censorship:
- 4 The Common Law after 1997:
- 5 A Matter of National Security:
- 6 Choosing the Leader:
- 7 Scenes from a Traumatic Event:
- Coda:
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
Summary
I bring this book to a close with a reflection on constitutional time, and return to a phrase that continues to resonate in discussions of Hong Kong’s legal order: “remain unchanged for fifty years.” To “remain unchanged” is to engage in a suspension of time, to create a temporal hiatus whereby a system, an idea of who one is, and a way of life is preserved. I approach Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 (released in 2004), in which a writer conjures up a place where nothing changes in the science fiction stories he creates, as an exploration of the potential finality of the Basic Law and Hong Kong identity, and of what it might mean to suspend time through a constitutional document.
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- Film and Constitutional ControversyVisualizing Hong Kong Identity in the Age of 'One Country, Two Systems', pp. 155 - 160Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021