filmcritic202
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The Islands (2019)
Ignore the haters....
If you carefully analyze the people attacking the film, they never say ONE KIND WORD.
Their attacks are usually brutal, personal, hateful, vicious, and unwarranted. Why you ask? Because Jesus himself said, "If they hated me, they will hate you." John 15:18
This film has won many people to Christ. If you're a true Believer, you should prayerfully support this film.
Their attacks are usually brutal, personal, hateful, vicious, and unwarranted. Why you ask? Because Jesus himself said, "If they hated me, they will hate you." John 15:18
This film has won many people to Christ. If you're a true Believer, you should prayerfully support this film.
Come See the Paradise (1990)
Great film about injustice
The horrible way we continue to portray Americans of Asian descent in Hollywood reminds me that bigotry and tribalism will never end.
The line that always kills every American-Asian is when a Caucasian asks 'What are you? Chinese, Japanese, Korean?" to which I reply "What are you? French, German, Dutch?"
The film is definitely at its most emotionally powerful in its superb middle section, which beautifully dramatizes, in flashback, the shameful deportation of these Japanese-American citizens to interment camps in California, for no crime more serious than simply being of Japanese descent. Parallels to the rounding up of Jews in Nazi Germany are never far from our minds as we witness this wholesale forced migration of a group of innocent people singled- out to assuage the prejudice and fear of an ignorant but powerful majority. For these scenes alone, the film is most assuredly worth seeing.
The line that always kills every American-Asian is when a Caucasian asks 'What are you? Chinese, Japanese, Korean?" to which I reply "What are you? French, German, Dutch?"
The film is definitely at its most emotionally powerful in its superb middle section, which beautifully dramatizes, in flashback, the shameful deportation of these Japanese-American citizens to interment camps in California, for no crime more serious than simply being of Japanese descent. Parallels to the rounding up of Jews in Nazi Germany are never far from our minds as we witness this wholesale forced migration of a group of innocent people singled- out to assuage the prejudice and fear of an ignorant but powerful majority. For these scenes alone, the film is most assuredly worth seeing.