Human rights keywords in movies: Letter 69

Movies are the starting point for conversations,

It is also a possible way to understand human rights issues.

◎Hand-made binding, one insert card per keyword

◎Each article provides "teaching tips" to make the key points clear at a glance

The series of handbooks "Human Rights Keywords in Movies" is jointly planned by the National Human Rights Museum and Fubon Cultural and Educational Foundation. Using different types of movies as texts, we comb through the human rights issues involved in them and organize them into keywords, and then show how we can use movies as a lens to observe the relationship between these keywords and ourselves in Taiwan at this time.

In the volume "Human Rights Keywords in Movies: Letter 69", we selected ten keywords:

#ShiShuihuan, #丁灪窕, #female political victims, #六张利 Cemetery, # Prison Letters, # harboring spies, # Post and Telecommunications Working Committee, # Student Working Committee, # The Judge Who Acts Clear and Bright, # Korean War

The film "Letter 69" is based on the letters of Shi Shuihuan, a victim of the White Terror, and attempts to reveal Shi Shuihuan's last blank letter home. It is an experimental work that challenges historical narratives through images. These ten keywords not only serve as clues to Shi Shuihuan's life before his death, but also lead to other common suffering experiences and states. "Shi Shuihuan", "Ding Yaoyao", and "Post and Telecommunications Working Committee" give us a glimpse of the people and things that appeared around Shi Shuihuan; "harboring spies", "letters from prison" and "judges who act with integrity" are in history The writing exposes the violent experience of physical imprisonment, whether in physical (prisons, shelters) or abstract space (martial law system); "Student Working Committee" and "Korean War" put state violence into the world political competition. The geopolitical context allows us to understand the ideals and struggles of Taiwanese people at that time; and even though the "female political victims" and the "Liuchangli Grave Area" represent the passing of life, they are not heading towards the end.

Everyone looking at the same screen may have completely different feelings. We hope that movies can be a starting point for dialogue and a possible way to understand human rights issues.