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‘Documented’ Review

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Christopher Campbell
May 01, 2014
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Documented

“Illegal alien.” It’s a horribly dehumanizing term. It makes the people to whom it refers sound sinister, literally otherworldly, even invasive. In the poster and title sequence for Documented, the subtitle “a film by an illegal immigrant” appears, and then the words “illegal immigrant” are crossed out and “undocumented American” is then scrawled under …

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