Cui Jian on "Traumatic Amnesia" in China 崔健谈中国人创伤性失忆

Q&A in Mandarin & English. 中英文。崔健2014年2月7日在纽约大学首映他首次执导故事片《蓝色骨头》谈中国人创伤性失忆: " 年轻人愿不愿意把时尚真正的作为一种很好的借口，我们来区别于上一个时代。我们现在的时尚，我们现在从物质上已经得到巨大的改变，但是我们有足够的理由说过去就过去了。我们父母的痛苦我们都不用管啦? 我们在电影里树立的形象就是他不愿意做，而且他觉得他一个废物父母的团聚实际上只能带来痛苦的回忆。所以说我们年轻人是否做一个废物？这是个立志的问题，还有一个是创伤性失忆，是不是针对老一代人啦？但对于年轻人是不是有恐惧性失忆症？我们不敢谈论迷失的空间，我希望我的电影里面鼓励人们去谈论这个空间。这个空间你要不谈论它就死了." －视频由唐路(Rose Tang)现场录制，文字由唐路提供。
Cui Jian, Father of Chinese Rock, talks about how important for young people to fight against "traumatic amnesia" and "horrified amnesia" of the past, at the screening of his directorial debut of his first feature film "Blue Sky Bones" in New York University on Feb. 7, 2014. Cui has been the symbol of Chinese rebels since the 1980's. His subversive songs were anthems of protests in 1989. He performed for students in Tiananmen Square not long before the massacre. As his punishment, he wasn't allowed to perform in large public venues for the next 20 years.
I interviewed him for CNN in 2001. Last night (Feb. 7, 2014) I had the honor to see him again at the screening of his directorial debut of a very subversive feature film about the contemporary Chinese society. "Blue Sky Bones" 《蓝色骨头》portrays an introverted young rocker/rapper in agony, born to a father who's a secret agent and a mother, a stunning beauty who was hand picked by the Party to marry the heir of a top Communist leader (supposedly Lin Liguo, son of Mao's designated successor Lin Biao), but was somehow caught in a gay love triangle. I recorded this at the screening at New York University. - Rose Tang, writer/activist based in New York.