Misconception (film)
2014 American film
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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]
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| Directed by | Jessica Yu |
| Written by | Jessica Yu |
| Music by | Nick Urata |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Reception
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]
