
Hollywood’s cultural revolution
The Slow Newscast
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Hong Kong Is Being 'Destroyed' by Giant Robots
The release is taking place at a sensitive time of year. In hong kong, the anniversary of the territory's return to china from britain. For a couple of years before the transformers forl release date, a protest movement known as the umbrella movement had been active around that date. These protests were started by a group of secondary school students who were angry that references to the tianaman square massacre had been removed from their school curriculum.
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