Brief Summary Of The Film 'Ai Weiwei Never Sorry'

Ai Weiwei is a contemporary artists and activist in Beijing, China who influences people to express their dislike towards the Chinese government. In the documentary “Ai Weiwei Never Sorry,” that we saw in class we see how Weiwei expresses his art in different manners. For example, Weiwei is famously known for sticking out his middle finger to the camera and flicking of the Chinese government because the government undermines human rights and equality. Weiwei is constantly fighting for a better country and to end communism, he’s a strong democracy supporter and he criticized the chinese government for not taking action in the 2008 earthquake so he took matters into his own hands and visited the families of the deceased schoolchildren. He than …show more content…
Nowadays, Weiwei lives in his studio, but there's cameras all over his neighborhood to ensure the government that Weiwei is being watched constantly. I find Weiwei’s work to be art because he has a personal experience with his art subject and with his audience. Art is an expressive way to communicate skill and imagination but a large part of art is the experience an individual has in making it. Weiwei’s uses art to create a division and a revolution in people’s minds. For example, Weiwei took a series of shots where he smashes and old and valuable urn from the Han dynasty and he explains his reasons, Weiwei says that Mao Zedong, a former chinese chairman, believes in destroying the old world to create a new world. Weiwei was judged by artists all over the world who said he was crazy for doing destroying something so valuable, but in actuality Weiwei was trying to an act of cultural destruction to end communism and to start a peaceful reform. Throughout this film, Weiwei shocks his viewers with his insane projects that go against the government but he also shows why he acts the way he does, he also explains why he believes the country needs to move on from the past and become