Watch: Free Chol Soo Lee 2022 123movies, Full Movie Online – In 1970s San Francisco, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee is wrongly convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. After spending years fighting to survive, journalist K.W. Lee takes an interest in his case, igniting an unprecedented social m….
Plot: On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evidence and the eyewitness accounts of white tourists who couldn’t distinguish between Asian features. Sentenced to life in prison, Chol Soo Lee would spend years fighting to survive behind bars before journalist K.W. Lee took an interest in his case. The intrepid reporter’s investigation would galvanize a first-of-its-kind pan-Asian American grassroots movement to fight for Chol Soo Lee’s freedom, ultimately inspiring a new generation of social justice activists.
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The American (in)Justice system is Still Doing The Same Corupt Racial Profiling
This is a story that is so very, very sad in a multitude of ways and for a multitude of reasons! And yet it is all about one thing, and one thing only, and that was and still is Racism towards all non white people. The justice system is totally corrupt so when a person of colour gets entangled with it, it is really bad for them, When you happen to be completely innocent – as Chol Soo Lee was – then the cops and the prosecution will lie, withhold evidence and, as happened in this case, not even bother to question any of the 30 plus Asian witnesses at the crime scene.It was very sad and sickening to watch this man’s life ruined by corrupt cops and the corrupt system! The makers of the documentary did an excellent job with what they had to work with and, I am so glad I stumbled upon it!
This movie makes Chol Soo Lee’s tragic life whole.
Saw this last night with the kid units. We all cried. The documentary delivers on so many arcs.It’s great documentary film making. There isn’t a lot of footage or recordings of Chol Soo Lee. How to make a film with so little material? Voice overs, a few re-enactments, and lots of texture including great sound work.
It works as a personal story about Chol Soo Lee. A man born with a mountain of bad luck under tragic circumstances. A flawed man by design who was racially profiled and wronged by America’s courts and the police. Again and again.
The white people involved in wrongly accusing Lee and jailing him can’t tell the difference between a Korean or a Chinese man. The Asian Americans in the documentary notice details about him like his smile and refer to his “beautiful face.” Lee wasn’t just a Korean man to them. He was born during the Korean War to a single mother into an impoverished family. He didn’t want to come to America with his mother at the age of 12. This documentary upends the tired immigrant stories of longing and yearning for a beautiful America that gives a warm embrace to immigrants.
It gives voice and faces to all those who helped him. There’s a great sense of Asian American movement building and history. We all felt slighted by the white savior movie “True Believer”.
I’ve read about Lee since I was a child. I’ve been curious about him for decades. This movie makes him whole. This movie makes all the people who endeavored to help him whole.
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Director Julie Ha, Eugene Yi
Writer Carol Dysinger, Julie Ha, Chol Soo Lee
Actors Chol Soo Lee, Jeff Adachi, K.W. Lee
Country United States
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