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Information
- Year
- 2020
- Runtime
- 90 min.
- Director
- Alice Gu
- Genre
- Documentary
- Rating *
- 8.7
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 39
- Favs
- 0
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 0.0% (0:39)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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frankqb
A patchwork of grainy historic footage, degraded 70s and 80s commercials, hokey stock footage, hand drawn clips, and interviews with modern people. Stories of immigrants coming to new lives are so important and yet this film seems to have nothing to say of value beyond “America is a better life than life under the Khmer Rouge”.
The film has no specific narrative, just little vignettes with characters that are related to the eponymous Donut King. It is repetitive, slow, loops back on itself multiple times, uninteresting and barely about donuts. Its glaring lack of political point is like the hole in the middle of the donut. It’s sweet, American, capitalistic and empty.
2 stars out of 5 3 years 2 months ago
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