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Misconception (film)

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Misconception
Directed byJessica Yu
Written byJessica Yu
Music byNick Urata
Production
company
Release date
  • April 21, 2014 (2014-04-21)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Misconception is a 2014 American documentary film directed by Jessica Yu about population growth. It reveals a world of anti-abortion centers.[1] The film has been reviewed on Slant Magazine[2] and TheWrap.[3]

Reception

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In the Los Angeles Times, Gary Goldstein wrote:

The film is divided into three chapters. In the first, a Chinese man nearing 30 searches for a suitable wife in a nation whose one-child policy, which began in the late 1970s and ended at the start of 2016, unexpectedly caused a deficit of about 30 million girls. Part two follows Canadian antiabortion activist Denise Mountenay as she addresses the United Nations on behalf of her deep-rooted cause.

The third and most potent chapter spotlights Gladys Kalibbala, a heroic Ugandan journalist exploring the vast numbers of lost, abandoned or misplaced children in a populous country with the world’s third-highest birthrate. This last section serves as a kind of "in-the-trenches" rebuttal to Mountenay’s more ideologically-based campaign...

Misconception proves a smart, vital and absorbing portrait.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Bahadur, Nina (September 18, 2014). "'Misconception' Reveals The Dark, Misleading World Of Crisis Pregnancy Centers". The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  2. ^ "Misconception | Film Review". Slant Magazine. April 24, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  3. ^ Sneider, Jeff. "'Misconception' Review: Overpopulation Doc Misses the Target". Thewrap.com. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  4. ^ Goldstein, Gary. "Review: Timely doc Misconception crunches the numbers on global population growth". LATimes.com. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
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