Dafa Practitioners in Northern China Reflect on the Filming of Torture Reenactments
By Falun Dafa practitioners in China
(Clearwisdom.net) After the Minghui website requested that Falun Dafa practitioners in China
provide photographic footage exposing the brutal tortures and persecution,
practitioners from our area began a series of intense preparatory efforts. We
readied the clothing, stage props, personnel and venues, and we then rushed to
convene. During the process, certain matters that appeared ordinary and minor
would ultimately move us deeply, and many of the later pictures we took
contained images of Faluns of different colors. We completed our first filming, only to find that the images had many
shortcomings. The clothing and props were improper, the actors' demeanors did
not meet our standards, and the "police," especially, were not vicious
enough to convey the true atmosphere of evil. Furthermore, some of the torture
demonstrations were too simplistic and unrealistic, inadequate for depicting the
real persecution and torture that Falun Dafa practitioners suffer. We shared our thoughts on these issues and realized that if practitioners in
China provided accurate torture displays, Jiang's regime's evilness will be
exposed more directly, and we will be saving sentient beings in a more profound
way. We also enlightened to the solemn and sacred nature of the torture display
and its grand historical significance in this Fa-rectification. After developing
this clearer understanding of our duties, we all agreed to re-film the
exhibitions and to reuse the available torture instruments in accurately
depicting the tortures we encountered. We arrived at our filming venue for the second time, but this time a fellow
practitioner told the "policemen" straightaway, "You can really
hit me. It does not matter as long as it looks real." Another practitioner
who was recently released from detention and still very weak demonstrated
personally all the tortures he had encountered. In order to illustrate
faithfully the pain he had suffered during the prison force-feedings in which a
tube had been inserted into his stomach, he chewed a hot chili pepper to make
himself sweat, thus recreating his feeling of suffocation and his profuse
sweating. An elderly practitioner carefully fashioned leg shackle props to be
extremely lifelike, and he also personally demonstrated its use in torture.
Another fellow practitioner demonstrated tortures such as the water dungeon and
being hosed with high-pressure water. For the water dungeon, he wore a soaked,
cotton-padded jacket and pants and sat on the cold cement ground, while an actor
portraying a "criminal obeying police instructions" continuously
poured cold water on his head. In order to make the torture called "tying
with ropes" more realistic, a practitioner actually learned how to tie
ropes while helping with other efforts. Although they were already exhausted
after a hard day's work, still other practitioners placed the Fa (1) as their
priority and still squeezed in time to aid in the filming. A practitioner who had only recently been released from prison demonstrated
many tortures and suffered numerous "beatings." He took the initiative
in volunteering to demonstrate the torture called "hanging with an iron
chain." When we removed the chair from under his feet, his whole body was
suspended by the chain, and the ensuing pain caused him to knit his eyebrows and
to groan in a low voice. By the time we lowered him, the skin on his wrists was
already broken, and there were deep marks where the chain had cut into him.
Seeing how injurious our demonstration turned out to be, despite its lasting
only for that short period we were filming, it is easy to imagine how cruel and
sinister the actual torture is! Our torture demonstration made us realize that Fa-rectification work is
incomparably sacred and should be handled with the most earnest attention. (Of
course, paying earnest attention does not imply going to extremes. We should
take enough protective measures to ensure that the practitioners are not
physically harmed during the demonstrations.) During the process of re-filming,
and after our xinxing (2) improved on the whole, the golden, shining Falun
manifested its supernatural powers as we cooperated as one body, revealing the
wonderful and sacred nature of the Fa-rectification in this and other
dimensions. Notes
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/9/23/84805.html
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