All language subtitles for 1Chim

- [Newscaster] For the first
time, in huge numbers,

the ordinary men and women of
Beijing have joined

the student protest,
lending their support

to what has now taken on all
the appearances

of a peaceful popular uprising,

against the oppressiveness of
Communist rule.

[people singing
"The Internationale"]

- Ah, thanks.

[crowd chants in a foreign
language]

- Demonstrators in the Chinese
capital of Beijing

say they face a military attack
in five hours time,

if they don't leave
Tiananmen Square.

- [Reporter] Since the
Government's decision

to send in the Army,
the determination

of the protestors has only
increased.

[speaking in foreign language]

- She wants to know,
what happens

after you get your dream of
democracy?

She says, I know what China is
dreaming of.

What is America dreaming of?

- Erm.

[crowd screams] [gunfire booms]

[gunfire booming]

- Why are you involved in
politics at all?

- I enjoy it, I enjoy the
system, I doubt I'll ever

be involved in politics beyond
what I do right now,

but I do enjoy the system,
I find it a really--

- Frank Sams speaking.

- Hi, Mr. Sams, my name is Lee
Berger, I'm a photographer,

I did an internship with you
last summer.

- Lee, it's late.

You want a reference?

Call back tomorrow.

- I know, but I'm in,
I'm in Beijing.

- What?

- Yeah, I saw what was going on
out here,

you know, with the protests and
everything,

and I had a little money saved,

so I,
I've been here for like 10 days.

- In Tiananmen Square?

- Yeah, it's, incredible,
yesterday with like, the army.

Do you know what's
going on out here?

- You mean 300 Chinese
protestors being

gunned down by their own
government?

- No, no, it was more than that,
it's like,

300,
is that what they're saying?

- Where are you now,
are you safe?

- Yeah but, I have a few photos,

and I thought you might be
interested.

- How soon can you get it back
here?

- I don't know.

There are soldiers outside of
the hotel.

Can't even make
it to the airport.

- Son, are you okay?

- They just opened fire on
their own people.

I had no idea it was gonna be
like that.

- No one did.

Just sit tight.

Let me see if I can call in a
favour,

BBC might have a spot on their
charter.

- [Lee] Oh, fuck.

- [Frank] Lee, Lee?

[tense music]

[tanks rumbling]

[person knocks on door]

[shouting in a foreign language]

[person banging on door]

[speaking in foreign language]

[Lee sighs]

[gentle music]

[children chanting in foreign
language]

[helicopter rotors whir]

[tense music]

[Lee breathes heavily]

[people yelling]

[gunshots bang]

[speaking in foreign language]

[dramatic music]

[cell phone buzzes]

- I know, I know.

Give me 30 seconds, it's coming.

Come on, come on.

A lot of times when your
shooting in those

kind of places,
there's a lot of dust,

so I like to have a zoom lens.

That's an EF 24 to
70 millimeter USM,

pretty standard, but I like it.

- Okay, err, we're almost
out of time, does err,

anyone have any questions for
Lee?

- Yeah.

- Do you know what happened to
him?

- I wish.

I went back to Beijing in 1990,
to try and identify him but

if anybody knew anything,
they wouldn't say.

It's too dangerous, I guess.

He was probably dead by then
anyway, but--

- My Uncle told me he was a guy
called err, Wang Guanyu.

He was like a medical student
or something?

- Never heard that one.

[gentle music]

- Erm,
can you sign this for me please?

- Sure.

Oh, uh,
actually that's not mine.

- But,
you took the Tank Man photo?

- I know, I know, but there
were like, six other guys

who took a really similar shot

and this one's Jeff Widener's I
think?

Yeah, that's Jeff's, sorry,
I can't, I can't sign that.

Hey listen good luck.

All right, Laura's got my email,

if you ever have any other
questions.

- Okay, thanks.
- All right, take care.

- I cannot wait to watch Hillary

make him eat that fucking
toupee.

[Lee laughs]

[tense music]

[cell phone buzzes]

- [Alex] Hi Mr. Berger,
my name's Alex Sguerra,

I'm a photojournalist.

I wanted to ask a couple of
things

about your Syria front page.

I'd be super grateful if you'd
call me back.

[group claps]

- [Woman] Good luck to
everybody.

- Man, that was so depressing.

[Lee laughs]

You ready to go get booed in
Pennsylvania?

- Let's do it.

- [Man] Is the state of
Pennsylvania

ready to vote for Donald Trump?

- So Frank says you're
gonna win a Pulitzer.

- For what, my poetry?

- For your Syria front page,
you douche noggin.

- Oh, I don't know about that.

You want to get a beer after
this?

- No, erm, I just,

actually, I just went into AA,
so.

I was gonna tell you, just,
it was while you were away,

and I didn't want to
write some cliched email.

- You don't have authorization.

- Oh that's impossible.

Mel Kincaid, the New York
Courier, this is Lee Berger.

- Sorry Ma'am,
you're not allowed in.

[Lee laughs]

- Do you believe that?

- It's not just you, ma'am,
it's your whole organization.

- [Mel] Oh is it now?

- [Blake] Yes Ma'am.

- Oh well thank you for that
information.

- Thank you, have a nice day.

Next please.

- We're blacklisted,
the whole newspaper.

This is so fucked up.

- [Mike] Again, join me in
welcoming the next President

of the United States of America,
Donald J. Trump!

- Fuck him, he's a joke.

Who wants to go to China?

Yeah, I thought you'd like that.

Trump says he's
standing up to China

but they're hand in glove,

he takes loans from Chinese
banks.

Now the Beijing Business Fair
runs this week,

I want footage.

I want America to hear vote
Trump from the enemy's mouth.

- You want video?

- Yeah, new editor's got the bit

between her teeth about online
content.

You met Lou yet?

- Uh-uh.

- No, well when you do,
look busy.

She's looking to take
10% off every department.

Plus she made me join Twitter.

- Well, it is the internet,
Frank.

It's not going anywhere.

- Yeah well,
I'm still hoping it's a fad.

Just booked you on the eight
a.m. flight to Beijing.

- [Alex] Lee,
this is Alex Sguerra again.

It's about your Syria picture.

I have some questions you need
to answer.

I think you know what
I'm talking about.

[dramatic music]

- Hey Zhang Lin, it's Lee,

I think it's like
four a.m. for you,

but guess what,
I'm on a plane to Beijing.

I really hope I get to see you,
I miss you man.

All right, call me back.

- You know that's her
third since we sat down?

- So?

- 15 hours next to Zelda
Fitzgerald, could be a bumpy
ride.

- A pansy with hair on his
chest.

- Excuse me?

- That's what Zelda Fitzgerald
called Ernest Hemingway.

- Switch seats with me.

- No.

So is this your first trip to
Beijing?

- I got, I got, I got a tip for
you, don't eat the chicken.

The average piece of Chinese
chicken,

if you were an athlete,
and you ate this chicken,

the steroids that they pump
into that shit,

you would fail a doping test.

It is the Lance Armstrong of
the poultry world.

- Okay, it's not my first time.

Oh, just gonna.

Thanks.

- You okay?

Take off's the worst part.

Once we're in the air,
you'll be fine.

- You know why they tell you to
adopt the brace position?

So your teeth don't
smash and they can

identify your body by your
dental records.

- Don't be mean, she's scared.

[Tess gasps]

- I'm Lee, you're gonna be fine.

- So what are you doing out
there?

- I'm consulting for an
American credit card company.

They are taking a crack at the
Chinese market.

I'm adapting their
profiling system.

I know, it's, it's very sexy.

- Profiling, I mean,
no offense, but you're going

to a country of one billion
people

to make some boxes to put them
in?

I mean, come on.

- Okay so, I've had like,
four wines but I would say

that you are, Group O with
Group B characteristics.

Within that, I would place you
as an Anti-Materialist,

maybe a bit of a Bright Young
Thing once,

but I think that ship has
sailed don't you?

You see your work as a career
not a job,

you identify yourself as
international not national,

you have no brand loyalty,
you think cannabis

should be legalized, sanitary
towels should be subsidized,

Donald Trump is a demagogue,
veganism is a good

but unattainable goal and real
men do cry.

- You know, It's fine to say
I don't wanna talk, you know?

You can just say that.

- Okay.

Shut up, The Tank Man?

That is mental.

I used to wonder what was in
his shopping bags.

- Yeah, well,
there are kids with iPhones

who can do my job better than
me now.

But I don't know how
to do anything else.

Kodak ergo sum.

- Ooh, hoo.

- I read that someplace,
I didn't come up with that.

- Is that so?

- What?

- I am so pissed.

[Lee laughs]

[speaking in foreign language]

[gentle music]

- Helen, baby,
I just got off a 15 hour flight,

please do not put words in my
mouth.

- Say hi from me.

- Lee says hi.

Yeah, he's fine, he fucked
Margaret Thatcher on the plane.

I know, it's disgusting.

Hey put, put Nathan on the line.

[cell phone buzzes]

- Trump?

Yeah I know him.

- I like him very much.

- His hair is, defy gravity.

- [Mel] Is China scared of him?

[speaking in foreign language]

- He will destroy America.

- And of the two candidates,
who do you think

would be the best for China?

- Hillary is crooked.

- Vote Trump.

- [All] Vote Trump.

- Vote Trump!

- Okay, thank you very much.

- Zhang Lin!

- [Zhang Lin] Hey.

[Zhang Lin laughing]

- Oh man, I've missed you.

- So,
what's the story this time?

- Three guesses.

- Trump?

An election every four years.

No wonder you cannot get
anything done.

This is my brother, Zhang Wei.

[speaking in foreign language]

- [Lee] You remember Mel right?

- Yes, hi, Mel.
- So good to see you.

- And this is my friend, Tess.

[speaking in foreign language]

- I hope it's okay,
that I join you?

- Of course, please sit.

- Thank you.

- This is a great place.

I hope you can handle the spicy
food?

- I love spicy food.

- [laughs] People always say
that, Mel.

- No I,
I went back to Beijing in 1990,

and Zhang Lin was trying to
teach me some Mandarin,

but I didn't get very far.

- Have you ever been to New
York?

- What for, Starbucks,
cockroaches?

We have both of those here.

Hey, I teach crazy English now,
did I tell you?

I take my students to the roof,

we yell English into the sky.

You shout, you learn.

We conquer English to make
China stronger!

It's got sort of
a fascist aspect

but it helps with the
conjugation.

[everybody laughs]

Tomorrow, hi!

This is Tomorrow,
she's one of my pupils.

- [Lee] Hi.

- You the famous photograph?

- Me, am I famous?

No, no I took one pretty famous
photo.

You want to see it?

Okay.

Erm, here it is.

I took it in Tiananmen Square,
in 1989.

After the protest?

- I don't know, sorry.

- I think we were followed
today.

- Probably, you're a journalist.

- What,
you don't think it's weird?

It never happened to me before.

- You mean you never noticed
before.

Excuse me.

Joy!

- Hey.

- [Joy] Hey.

- [Lee] Hey, you caught us.

- Don't be silly I'll have one.

Who was that?

- Who?

Oh Joy?

It's my neighbour's daughter.

- Do you fancy her?

- [laughs] She's married,
she lives in Hong Kong.

Too smart for me,
she's a human rights lawyer.

Yeah, anyway, I don't think err,

don't think I'll marry again.

- Zhang Lin's wife died.

- Sorry, I didn't realize.

- It happened a long time ago.

- So,
so how did you get together?

- Do you know a band called
Wham?

- Yeah.

- They played a concert here.

I bought tickets then my
girlfriend broke up with me.

I met Liuli the next day,
I took her instead.

That was our first date.

- You never told me that.

- I've seen that concert!

There's a documentary,
it's on YouTube,

they show the whole crowd,
maybe you're in it!

You gotta check.

- We can't access that site.

YouTube is blocked here.

- You like Wham?

- I like Wham, I love Wham,
I spent the eighties planning

my wedding to George Michael,
what is your point? [laughs]

- I'm just saying there
was a massacre, right here,

in Tiananmen square, and the
guy still had the courage

to stand up,
and say this is wrong.

And what did he have?

He had nothing.

He had a couple of plastic
grocery bags, that's it.

- He was a clown.

- He wasn't a clown.

You know, I was there too.

- Yes, up in your hotel room,
taking pictures.

Behind your camera, I was here.

In the square, okay, bullets
the size of your thumb, yes?

Dum dums.

They turned the lights out on
us.

- Don't you think it's weird

that nobody would know anything?

- The Tank Man?

Are we still on that?

- That waitress she works like
five minutes

from the Square, she doesn't
know people were killed there.

- Bad journalism,
most of them weren't

even killed in the square.

- Okay, okay but she never even
heard of the Tank Man!

- What's with you tonight, huh?

Tank Man, Tank Man,
what did he do?

He stood in the road,
my wife she sat

in that Square for two whole
months!

- Right, so you were there,
so you must've heard something.

Over the years,
you never heard anything,

nobody ever said anything to
you?

- [scoffs] I heard he went to
America.

- What?

Wait, wait, what are you?

- New York,
many people moved there after.

By August most of my friends
were gone.

- Are you serious?

I thought,
I thought that he was,

I thought he would have been
dead, this is,

do you have his name?

- He'll have changed it.

He'll be called
Brian Simpson or--

- No, do you,
do you know what his name is?

Please, do you have it?

- Wang Pengfei.

[dramatic music]

- Wang Pengfei, like P-E-N-G--

- F-E-I.

He was at art school,
with Liuli.

He got his place there by
painting

a perfect copy of Van
Gogh's Sunflowers.

Nice guy.

- I can't believe,
that you never told me this.

- You're a foreign journalist,
Lee.

You know how careful I have to
be,

when you come to visit?

I like to live quiet.

Anyway, it was thirty years ago,
who cares?

Don't you have other
things to worry about?

Like err, democracy.

It's, what's a,
the English word?

Fucked?

- What, you don't like Trump?

- I like Clinton.

Women hold up half the sky.

- Drink.

[both laughing]

Welcome back!

- The Tank Man is dead.

You don't think this
friend of yours is,

let's be civil,
feeding you a crock of shit?

- I actually think we might
have something.

We have this guy's name.

- Wang Pengfei.

- Ah, right and err,
this name was given

to you by how many people?

- Lee's friend, Zhang Lin.

- And this person,
he's in the army, the Party?

- He teaches crazy English.

- Excellent, so he has access

to the really high level
intelligence then?

- Anyway, he's dead.

I pulled the clips.

This is by our Beijing
correspondent at the time,

the headline is quite
unequivocal.

- It can't be quite unequivocal,

it is or it isn't,
there's no scale.

- [Lee] Well,
maybe that headline's wrong.

I never heard of it.
[cellphone rings]

How long do we have before Lou
gets here?

- [Doreen] Frank Sams' phone.

- [Frank] That's her.

- That's her?

What's she doing?

- She's inspiring us
to sit differently.

She wants to encourage younger
voices.

- Does it work?

- Yeah.

- Frank, it's that girl again.

She's called three
times this morning.

- Tell her I'll call her back.

- She says if you don't take it,

she's gonna call Lou direct.

- Alex Sguerra,
photojournalist, know her?

Me neither, I had to Google her.

She's about 12, works for Vice,
wears a lot of hats.

Alex Sguerra says if you
magnify this

by 200 the manipulation is
obvious.

So we can do that, and turn this

into an official investigation,

or you can just tell me what
you did.

[tense music]

- It's two shots,
I spliced them together.

[Frank sighs]

I just, I don't know
what I was thinking.

I, I didn't even really
mean to send it, I just.

[Frank groans]

Does Lou know?

- Not yet.

- Does she have to?

I've never done anything
like this before.

- There's no quiet
way of doing this!

We have to print a correction.

We have to weather the shit
storm that follows,

and I have to call every editor
in the country

and apologize 'cause you've
made all of us look dirty,

right at the moment we need

more than ever to be immaculate.

[scoffs] You've played
right into his tiny hands,

you know that right?

I can't afford to
give you anything

less than a public execution
right now.

- Frank please,
it was a great shot.

- Sure, the kind of shot that
wins a Pulitzer.

If it's real.

- It was real, it happened.

- It's true or it isn't,
alteration is not an option.

- Yeah well apparently it's
the only way to get Syria

on the front of this newspaper.

Week after week I send you
unthinkable atrocities,

and you bury 'em on page 12!

- You're gonna want to write
an apology, a good one.

I can help you with that.

But this, we're done, son.

[dramatic music]

- [Caitlin] Excuse me?

- Don't worry, I won't be long.

- You can't just-- - Alex?

Alex Sguerra, anybody?

Alex?

Alex?

Lee Berger--

- I know who you are, hi.

Look, do you wanna go somewhere?

- No I, I just want to say,
I hope that

when you're out doing
your important work,

covering which music
festival's the best one

to get Herpes at, you feel
really fucking proud of
yourself.

- Dude,
do you think I like this either?

I've looked up to
you my whole career,

I had the Tank Man pasted on my
bedroom wall.

- No, no, what I do?

Has nothing to do with what you
do.

You don't have a career,
you have a couple

of dumb trips to Cambodia that
your daddy paid for.

I work for a newspaper,
we take bets on when

the first Vice kid is gonna get
their head chopped off.

- Worked.

- Excuse me?

- You worked for a newspaper.

Past tense, right?

[dramatic music]

[cell phone ringing]

# I was dreaming, but I should
have been with you instead #

# Wake me up before you go-go #

# Don't leave me hanging
on like a yo-yo #

# Wake me up before you go-go #

# I don't want to miss it
when you hit that high #

# Wake me up before you go-go #

# 'Cause I'm not plannin'
on going solo #

# Wake me up before you go-go #

[happy music]

[chanting in foreign language]

[furniture rattling]

[Zhang Lin gasps]

[somber music]

- These vicious claims about me

of inappropriate conduct with
women

are totally and absolutely
false.

- I'd like to apologize
for the mistake

I made manipulating the
photograph.

I've always behaved ethically
and this was a single,

catastrophic error of judgment.

I deeply regret that I sullied
the reputation

of my newspaper and my friends.

Journalists are not liars.

They seek truth.

And right now we need them more
than ever.

I cannot expect my colleagues
to forgive me.

I only hope that they will
recognize this happened

under the pressure of rolling
half hour deadlines,

and the demands of a readership
which has

become desensitized to anything

but the most arresting images.

- Cut the last sentence.

- But it's true.

- I know, but cut it.

[cell phone buzzes]

[Lee chuckles]

- [Lee] Yeah,
so it's been kind of a bad day.

- Blimey, that really is shitty.

- Yeah, so when did you fly in?

- Like four hours ago,
can't you tell? [laughs]

- So you like working over
there?

- It's the only country I've
ever been to

where I feel like they genuinely
don't give a shit about us.

Like, at all.

[speaking in foreign language]

- Wow,
you're a fast learner, huh?

- Yeah,
I've been studying at night.

Taking a lot of caffeine pills.

My piss is orange.

I have to admit something
really terrible.

- What, like worse than your
piss being orange?

- I Googled you.

- I Googled you too.

What's netball and why
do they make you wear

such short skirts when you play
it?

- Sorry just, you know this is
a work thing, right?

Oh no, this is really awkward
now isn't it?

- No, not at all,
don't worry about it.

- I literally just got divorced,

I'm not really

looking for a-- - Yeah, yeah,
that's fine.

Excuse me,
can I get another one of those?

Thanks.
- Sure thing.

- So what do you want to talk
about?

- Okay, erm, so,

the credit card company I work
for

are looking for some art work
for the card,

and I found this.

It's yours.

Well I would like to license it.

- For a credit card?

Nah, I don't think so.

And anyway, that river those
kids are fishing in?

Is one of the most polluted
rivers in the world,

the child mortality rate is
like through the roof.

- It's a great image.

- Yeah, there's a ceiling
on how much I want to make

off a bunch of kids dying in a
developing country.

- Look,
I'm sorry you lost your job,

but don't take it out on me.

- Don't do that, that's not
what I'm talking about.

- Why are you angry then?

'Cause I slept with you once
and don't want to do it again?

- No, 'cause this is
the worst day of my life

and now I'm having
dinner with Ayn Rand.

And actually,
bullshit you didn't want to.

Hey Lee, can I buy you dinner?

I promise not to have sex with
you.

Call me.

- I'm not sure how I could
have been more explicit.

- [laughs] Oh my God, that,
this is like,

the least subtle email I've
ever gotten in my life!

- Look, I know you're having
a tough time, but honestly?

We Photoshop everything,
all the time, so what?

So what if the, if the Tank Man
was photoshopped,

it's still an amazing image,
right?

It'd still be saying something.

It'd still be true.

- Are you out of your fucking
mind?

[tense music]

Journalist's are not liars,
they seek truth.

And right now,
we need them more than ever.

- You know, there are a ton of
people right now

shitting on you from a great
height, and I just want you

to know those people have
exactly zero fucking right

to do that,
'cause those people were never

in a combat zone in their
whole life.

- Okay, thank you.

- But I was.

I have been in 12 combat zones,

so when I shit on you,
it counts, okay?

I don't care how hot or
dusty it was,

or how much sleep you
weren't getting,

there is no excuse for what you
did.

- I'm sorry.

- I hope you like eating
leftover
shrimp in a catering tent

'cause you are gonna be
a wedding photographer

for the rest of your fucking
life, Lee.

- I know.

- Do you know you have broken
my heart?

- He's not dead.

- Are you serious right now,
Lee?

- Just, just, listen to me,
listen to me,

we know that after Tiananmen,
there've been

public executions on TV every
day,

people who'd embarrassed the
Party a lot less than that guy.

- Yeah, so?

- So it doesn't make any sense.

If the Party had got him,
they definitely would have

made sure that every TV viewer
in China had seen

that bullet go through his head.

That's an image that would've
gone

round the world and
there's nothing.

I get a photo of the Tank Man,
alive and well

and sitting in Central Park,
you don't think every newspaper

in the world is gonna open its
doors to me?

- Even if you got that photo,
you know what happens?

Everyone thinks it's a fake.

In news, you don't have anything
except your credibility.

And you don't have that
any more.

- I know, but you do.

- No, no!

So what do you think?

- I think he's fired and you
have an election to cover.

- You know, this isn't
just about the Tank Man.

This is about a government
crushing

one of the biggest protests in
history.

Zhang Lin, he lost his wife.

She was shot in the street and
nobody remembers.

But if the Tank Man is alive?

- [Mel] There's not
a shred of evidence

the Public Security Bureau took
him.

- [Frank] You had a name, right?

- Yeah, Wang Pengfei.

- Nothing else?

- He painted a perfect copy of
Van Gogh's Sunflowers.

- Well, it's not nothing.

This is extracurricular, okay?

You still put the newspaper
first.

And you, be careful.

Lou hears you're anywhere
near this,

it's my head on a plate.

- She only hates you
'cause you're a Republican.

- [chuckles] Like I haven't been
punished enough.

- Wake me up before you go go!

Take me dancing tonight!

I want to hit that high.

- [Both] Wake me up before you
go go!

Don't leave me hanging
on like a yo-yo!

[gentle music]

[camera shutter clicks]

- When we find him,

what's the first question you're
gonna ask?

- Okay, one, what did he say to
the soldier in the tank?

Two,
what were in his shopping bags?

[dramatic music]

- [Weather Man] Your New York
City forecast here

on this Thursday morning.

- Hey.

- [Weather Man] A secondary low
of cold air heading out.

- Wow.

Hey.
- Hey.

[woman laughs]

[gentle music]