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09,all the lights went out in the west of the city. It went almost pitch black. It was...

The Exiles • 2022

[gunshots] [somber music playing] [reporter 5] At 1:09,
all the lights went out in the west of the city. It went almost pitch black. [reporter 3] It was after dark
when the first military convoys got close
to Tiananmen Square. The defiant pro-democracy
students held their ground. [reporter 1]
Then without warning... [reporter 3] ...troops
opened fire indiscriminately on a crowd of men,
women, and children. [reporter 4] In the darkness,
the sound of gunshots. [reporter 1] Now,
people are running away. There are thousands of them.
In extraordinary numbers. [reporter 5] Launching into
an unarmed civilian population as if charging into battle. [reporter 6]
Against automatic weapons, the students had
only stones to throw. [reporter 2] They just killed
another one in the square. [reporter 1]
They rip away his camera and they're coming for us. I'll go! I'll go!
I'll go! I'll go! [speaking in French] [reporter 1] This is New York.
Is anybody here? [reporter 5]
How do you feel right now?

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[gunshots]

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[somber music playing]

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[reporter 5] At 1:09, all the lights went out

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in the west of the city.

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It went almost pitch black.

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[reporter 3] It was after dark when the first

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military convoys got close to Tiananmen Square.

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The defiant pro-democracy students held their ground.

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[reporter 1] Then without warning...

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[reporter 3] ...troops opened fire indiscriminately

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on a crowd of men, women, and children.

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[reporter 4] In the darkness, the sound of gunshots.

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[reporter 1] Now, people are running away.

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There are thousands of them. In extraordinary numbers.

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[reporter 5] Launching into an unarmed civilian population

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as if charging into battle.

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[reporter 6] Against automatic weapons,

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the students had only stones to throw.

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[reporter 2] They just killed another one in the square.

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[reporter 1] They rip away his camera

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and they're coming for us.

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I'll go! I'll go! I'll go! I'll go!

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[speaking in French]

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[reporter 1] This is New York. Is anybody here?

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[reporter 5] How do you feel right now?

Duration

57 seconds

Views

35

Timestamp in Movie

00:12:12

Uploaded

Mar 30, 2025

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Production

Maiden Voyage Pictures

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Movie Summary

Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre, in order to find closure on an abandoned film she began shooting in 1989.