Snake Eaters (2019)
"Snake Eaters" does a superb job of acknowledging the impact of the current political turmoil in Hong Kong on the territory's grassroots population. More than a touristic presentation of what may appear to be Hong Kong's old-fashioned and "exotic" culture, funerary rituals, and cuisine, Snake Eaters takes a careful look at Hong Kong citizens, their cross-border lives, and their economic concerns. Jericho Li does this at a time when other student journalists from Baptist University literally risk their lives to bring news of the ongoing protest to the public. To cite one example, on December 15, 2019, an undergraduate student reporter from Baptist University Students' Union Editorial Board sustained a serious eye injury from a tear gas canister while covering the demonstrations. Jericho Li shows us another side of the story and its impact across generations, gender, class, occupation and status in the HKSAR.
By Gina Marchetti whose books include Romance and the
"Yellow Peril": Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (California, 1993), From Tiananmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens (Temple, 2006), Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's INFERNAL AFFAIRS-The Trilogy (Hong Kong: Hong, 2007, The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema (Temple, 2012, and Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (Hawaii, 2018).