Lee Collinson has been one of the fan-favourite acts on this season of “America’s Got Talent”, and he continued on his journey on Tuesday night as the semifinal performances continue.
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a book and his case inspired the 1989 drama film “True Believer.” But his life — what happened before and after he became famous for his imprisonment — was far from a Hollywood fairy tale.In the documentary “Free Chol Soo Lee,” first-time doc directors Julie Ha and Eugene Yi use archival materials in an attempt to present their tragic hero in all three dimensions. Despite their efforts, Soo Lee feels just out of reach, but the story of his life remains as important as it is horrifying.The film opens by explaining the crime and how Soo Lee became a prime suspect. Journalistic giant K.W.
Lee compared Soo Lee’s case to the Kafka novel “The Trial,” and it’s an apt connection. Everything that could have gone wrong for Soo Lee did; he was even reported for firing a gun indoors just two days before the murder. According to Soo Lee, he had just been fiddling around with the pistol, which he’d borrowed from his manager at work.
It was the first time he’d ever held a gun.Of course, the other problems in Soo Lee’s case magnify much larger issues in our country, particularly concerning class and race. Though the police were ostensibly looking for a Chinese perp, per witness descriptions, they nailed Soo Lee instead. Soo Lee had already been in juvie and a psych ward before his life sentence, in large part because the adults in his life couldn’t understand him, much less advocate for him.
To paraphrase the film — he wasn’t crazy; he just couldn’t speak English.The dominoes continue falling from there. In the film’s sole animated sequence, Soo Lee recounts murdering a fellow inmate, Morrison Needham, during his sentence. Soo Lee says Needham, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, was threatening him because he would not take sides in a
.Lee Collinson has been one of the fan-favourite acts on this season of “America’s Got Talent”, and he continued on his journey on Tuesday night as the semifinal performances continue.
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One ballsy man’s spectacular real-life scam that endured in the UK for nearly a decade makes for pulse-quickening escapism in Rogue Agent. This is a story so far-fetched that you’d have trouble buying it in a film unless it really happened, and such is the case here in a yarn that intrigues from the very beginning and only momentarily towards the end loses a bit of its footing. Graced by strong and alluring performances by leads James Norton and Gemma Arterton, this most engrossing drama is an IFC Films release in the U.S., where it will also be available for streaming on AMC+, while Netflix will broadcast it on home turf.
Having moved from Korea to the San Fransico neighborhood of Chinatown in the 1960s as the only Korean kid in the community with no English communication skills, Chol Soo Lee found himself known as an “at-risk youth.” A decade later, the 20-something immigrant was racially profiled and convicted of the murder of local gang member Yip Yee Tak. READ MORE: ‘Free Chol Soo Lee’ Review: An Unflinching Portrait Of The Trauma Inflicted On An Innocent Man [Sundance] While Lee maintained his innocence, being convicted of first-degree murder landed him in one of California’s most dangerous and violent facilities for life.
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