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Life in a Chinese prison..... wow

posted 16 years ago by Eric-1226
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I don't know how much of this was doctored up for foreign consumption, but I couldn't help but feel actual admiration towards the way they were trying to forge new and better people out of the prisoners, what with the marching and discipline and stuff.

But then I thought, nahh, this has got to be false advertising. Anybody here know what the truth is?

(I mean, after the cameras stopped rolling, were all those prisoners sent downstairs to a concealed factory where they worked all night, cranking out toys for export to the West??)

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[–] slayintheilluminati 13 years ago

maybe go look in your own country how *beep* gets down, alwasy trying to blame china for this blame china for that

[–] RRHowell41 13 years ago

I have no idea what Chinese prisons are like now, but the idea that the Chinese prison system is about attempting to reform people has been true, even when the mental reforms it was trying to force on people were deeply upsetting to many in terms of the human rights issues.

Everything so clean and shiny and new--that strikes me as understandable but likely false advertising. The earnest attempt at reform--that rings true to other books I've read and other movies I've seen.

[–] yiren121 11 years ago

The one in the movie is real, and it's been made example of. Director is very proud of it too, said in the documentary.

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