Category: defiance

Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Defiance’

R | 2 h 17 min | Drama, Biopic | 2008 “Every day of freedom is like an act of faith. Our revenge is to live.” Those lines, uttered by the lead character in Edward Zwick’s film, capture its essence. A professor of sociology and Holocaust survivor-scholar from Connecticut, Nechama Tec, once wrote a book…


Defiance in the Kingdom of Fake News

In the northeastern city of Changchun, China, a group of six ordinary people—a truck driver, a food vendor, a housewife, and others—gathered in secret to plan an extraordinary task: to break into the television broadcasting system of the most tyrannical regime on earth—that of the Chinese Communist Party. Their goal was to expose one of…