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One thing I learned about democracy
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The Exiles

One thingI learned about democracy is that it's very shortsighted

One thing
I learned about democracy is that it's very shortsighted

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One thing I learned about democracy
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is that it's very shortsighted.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
01:12:57
Uploaded
Mar 30, 2025
Genres
documentary
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.
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, - The Exiles 00:08
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
If we find out that the people - The Exiles 00:20
If we find out that the people
It would make it extraordinarily difficult. - The Exiles 00:16
It would make it extraordinarily difficult.
And that's the way the Chinese system works. - The Exiles 00:05
And that's the way the Chinese system works.
The Chinese government covered everything up, - The Exiles 00:06
The Chinese government covered everything up,
The Bush administration says - The Exiles 00:10
The Bush administration says
In the conduct of foreign policy, - The Exiles 00:06
In the conduct of foreign policy,
And we should not become a party - The Exiles 00:08
And we should not become a party
And from this point of view that I am pragmatic, - The Exiles 00:06
And from this point of view that I am pragmatic,
[camera shutters clicking] - The Exiles 00:07
[camera shutters clicking]
[Wu'erkaixi] The last, uh, 30 years - The Exiles 00:08
[Wu'erkaixi] The last, uh, 30 years
The world is seeing a kind of totalitarianism - The Exiles 00:06
The world is seeing a kind of totalitarianism
In the past when we tried to inspire people to-- - The Exiles 00:08
In the past when we tried to inspire people to--
I say, you know, they just don't have enough prison cells - The Exiles 00:07
I say, you know, they just don't have enough prison cel...
We will show you-- we're gonna build, - The Exiles 00:08
We will show you-- we're gonna build,
And they have done that with the world's appeasement. - The Exiles 00:05
And they have done that with the world's appeasement.
[Christine] But who's gonna exert - The Exiles 00:05
[Christine] But who's gonna exert
[Christine] The United Nations couldn't because China - The Exiles 00:06
[Christine] The United Nations couldn't because China
-[Wu'erkaixi laughs] -It's a very, - The Exiles 00:06
-[Wu'erkaixi laughs] -It's a very,
They really do nothing, - The Exiles 00:06
They really do nothing,