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‘The Exiles’ Review: Tiananmen Square Documentary is a Flawed but Essential Testament to the Power of Image-Based Reporting [Sundance]

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“You can write about it, but Americans don’t read.” A firm non-believer in spoon-feeding, Academy Award-nominated documentary pioneer Christine Choy (“Who Killed Vincent Chin?”) may very well never set foot in her home country of China again. “How the f*ck can I explain to anyone where I’m from?” maintains Choy, born to a Korean father who abandoned the family shortly following her birth. “F*ck you!

You describe me!” Identity, as it pertains to nationalism, is an issue that plagues many former Chinese citizens — specifically those who were in the country during the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989, which left a number of political activists, many of them students, exiled from the country for actions deemed radical by a totalitarian government.

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