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Summary: not what i thought, so i like it
Review: I was kind of expecting "Living on Tokyo Time" but found so much more.
I think just about everything went right with this film, one of those moments when I guess it all just comes together. Superb casting, acting, etc. looking forward to your next film. I'd like to be first in line if you decide to sell another DVD version of this film.
Cheers
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Summary: Thank you for making this film!
Review: I work for a women's help shelter and this film is a great lift to many of out clients who have been through terribly viloent situations and forced labor and sexual abuse. I know of a local Los Angeles shelter we work with and their own mission states what I think the writer of this film is trying to help by making people discuss the issue. Our shelters aren't here because there are no problems or people who need us! Thanks to the filmmaker!The Asian Pacific Women's Center mission states: Founded in 1993 by local attorneys and community activists who recognized the dire need for a long-term shelter (18 months) that could serve Asian and Pacific Islanders (APIs) as well as other women of color, APWC has developed a transitional housing program combining linguistic accessibility and cultural sensitivity of supportive services for the victims and survivors of domestic violence - women and their children.
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Summary: I can't believe this
Review: I've heard about this film for a short while. I finally saw it.
What a horrible and racist film. The characters are almost cartoonishly evil and the only voice of reason is an American WHITE man.
I'm sure none of the people who reviewed this racist lie about the Chinese community positively, are even Asian. No, this is NOT how the Chinese community is. I'm sure there are a few individuals who are like that, but they also exist in every race.
Asians are human... not cruel, heartless and/or naive, as depicted in this lie of a film.
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Summary: Racist
Review: I've spoken with some of my Asian friends about this film, and they all agreed that the portrayals in this movie are extremely inaccurate. It is saddening to see a movie that is made with such obvious bias towards a race that is seen as being inhumane and barbaric. The Jews complained about "The Passion of the Christ" being anti-semitic; I think Asians have every right to complain about this film being anti-Asian. This is sickening.
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Summary: Negative Five Stars
Review: If you enjoy films that stereotype an entire race of people, then go ahead and blow your $13.48 on this P.O.S. And if you enjoyed this film, may I suggest other timeless "classics" like: "16-Candles" "Karate Kid II" and "Charlie's Angels 2." Otherwise, hold onto your money and use it for something more meaningful and life-enriching. How about a film that that doesn't portray minorities in a negative light?
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Summary: Stereotypical white male claptrap disparaging asians
Review: It doesn't get more racist and stereotypical than this. The director tries to justify the "white knight" portrayal that often disparages asian men as well as asian women. The predominate stereotype is that asians are incapable of doing anything without a white hero. Asian men are emasculated as usual in this American media depiction which was created with patronizing white male fantasies in mind. Please watch films by Wong Kar Wai or early Ang Lee for Chinese movies about real Chinese culture. Avoid nonsense directed by individuals such as Steven Dunning because they are skewed in their racial perception. Asian community action groups have been contacted and we will actively boycott this director and campaign against his sponsors.
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Summary: Good films make people talk
Review: Just like Mel Gibson's Passion, this movie will make discussion and hopefully the talking will educate people on the terrible conditions so many people in the world still have to endure, this movie is obviously not saying all situations are like this in our community, because I know there are more terrible things going on than this and it's good that someone shows some of it so others will learn. I am Asian and am glad Steven Dunning made the film and would like to tell him my story which is harder than this one. Thank you.
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Summary: Hooray for this film!
Review: Maybe the people complaining are not confident-enough men who use the excuse that it's someone else's fault they didn't create the life they want. I am a petite Asian woman who owns her own company and bosses people around just like the men in this film. I am not controlled by what the media shows and intelligent people don't base their character judgments on what they see on TV. I am no sellout but because I have seen COPS do I think that all whites are drunken trailer trash? Obviously they are not or this country wouldn't be so successful with people like you wanting to come here. I see this film and do I think all Asian men are nonsexual? Not the Asian guys I date. And do all older Asian men treat women from a superior stance? Everyone in my family did and we've been here a lot longer than the people in this film. And especially all the men I deal with in business. Do I date them, hell no. But I would date Melvyn, yes an Asian guy in the movie.
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Summary: A very moving movie, beautifully done by all
Review: me and my friends had to comment on this after seeing the film, steven dunning was invited to speak at our university and he is truly doing good for many, he is standing up for those who are beaten down by giving them courage to stand up when they see what the girl in this film does, we are glad someone is showing what happens to many people, i found the sf weekly article and had to quote them: Situations like this have been documented for years. The worker's isolation (i.e. not being allowed out of to make any outside contacts or friends) is so extreme and the culture of fear created by their employers is so great that the worker's believe they will suffer serious harm if they leave their jobs, and have no choice but to remain in and continue laboring in abusive conditions." - Human Rights Watch researcher Carol Pier wrote in her report "Hidden in the Home: Abuse of Domestic Workers with Special Visas in the United States. Like many, Alice was told not to speak to anyone because anyone could be an FBI agent ready to deport her. Also she was falsely told she could not venture far from the apartment because her visa did not allow her to go anywhere without her boss. And even forced to wash all laundry and dishes by hand even though there was a washer/dryer and electric dishwasher because her boss said she was paying HER to do the work. Alice had come to the U.S. to make money to send back to her family, though her employer prevented her from doing so for months by telling Alice that she could not transfer the money by herself, but then refused to help her do it. Without her sending money, Alice knew her family would starve. She was told she first had to pay off her plane ticket here from Kenya. Many Southeast Asian trafficking victims are forced into prostitution to pay off a $10,000 or higher U.S. dollar boat passage. Police raids on these houses that resemble prisons in the Chinese communities of the Los Angeles area are documented by the Los Angeles Times in recent years.
Whoever happens to enter the path of a victim seeking help is often their only hope, whether it be a neighbor or pastor as in Alice's case, or a stranger. Alice went to Father Bob Moran at a local church and waited until everyone was gone before she approached him. "She seemed kind of fearful, desperate. She said they took her passport away and she couldn't really go anywhere. It didn't seem right; she didn't seem to have much freedom." Alice says 'I was thinking America is the home of the free. I didn't understand why there is freedom and I am not free. I am like a prisoner in the land of free people." Alice was left alone for a month and given only 8 dollars for food. She says "It's hard, but I don't know. I don't know anything about this country." She finally escaped to a women's shelter where she has been for more than a year while struggling with the courts and her immigration status but has yet to tell her parents back home of all her troubles here. "It took enormous courage for her to come forward and assert her rights against a powerful and influential person," says Kathleen Kim of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights. Alice states one reason for coming forward and exposing what many people think doesn't happen anymore in this country "It's really hard, but if there is a hard thing like going without food, or living without my mother, I always think it is better if it doesn't happen to other people." i think alice is the real lee like in the film
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Summary: Very Good movie, thank you Mr. Dunning
Review: My sister lived like this and not very funny for her. She was glad to see herself in this moviefilm. I have copied this from the San Fransico newspapers.- Accurate statistics on human trafficking are almost impossible to obtain because it remains such an underground problem and because the problem is not limited to one country or region. The U.S. government estimates 800,000 to 900,000 people are trafficked from nations all over the globe every year, a conservative estimate of 20,000 directly into the U.S.. Though the true size and scope of the problem are unknown, what is clear is that the American legal and social services organizations across the country handle more labor trafficking cases than sex trafficking cases. The Freedom Network here in the U.S. is a coalition of 20 groups that work in trafficking victims, sees primarily labor related cases. In Northern California, Mie Lewis of the Bay Area Anti-Trafficking task Force says a majority of the region's trafficking cases involve forced labor of workers.
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