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Journey From The Fall Analysis
Journey from the Fall is a movie which deals with the historical story of the Vietnamese re-education camp and people who escaped Vietnam by boat after the Fall of Saigon. After the war, many people including Long, the main character in the movie, are imprisoned in a re-education camp and face brutal conditions in the camp. Also, many others chose to leave their country with hopes of freedom and liberty in a new land. This movie accurately presents the experiences that Vietnamese people had to go through. I believe that the movies based on historical events such as Journey from the Fall has a great value to Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese Americans. Many second generation of immigrants do not experience the same struggle that their parents and
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