Beyond Utopia (2023) Reviews & Ratings
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Beyond Utopia reviews
Beyond Utopia holds a 7.7/10 average from 70 TMDB ratings.
Ably stitched together using hand-held, mobile phone and other discreetly shot footage, this documentary tells of people desperate to flee the poverty and oppression they face living in North Korea. It principally follows one particular family who must travel, at great peril to themselves, their guides and "brokers" across the Yalu river into China before continuing through Vietnam, Laos and hopefully across the Mek…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)
In today’s world, it’s almost unfathomable that there are places that exist on this planet that operate on the principles of unbridled cruelty, deliberate deception and mass brainwashing, with even the slightest of infractions capable of leading to banishment to remote gulags, brutal beatings and even savage public executions. However, such are the conditions of everyday life in North Korea, a paranoid, ruthless reg…
— Brent Marchant (8/10)
A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they risk their lives to embrace freedom.
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