The most astounding thing about the Golden Venture, to me, was that I had never heard of it before. I thought that I would have learned about such a momentous trial regarding immigration sooner, but for some reason, Golden Venture is not part of contemporary vernacular. Maybe it’s because I’m not from the city, and people from here have heard of it, but the film provided all new information to me.

It seemed as though the lawyers for the Golden Venture passengers had all the odds against them, and if this documentary proves anything, it is that we need to relax the immigration laws for those seeking political asylum. People sent back to China were literally sterilized by their government. The US should have been more invested in the well being of people seeking their help. How does a nation justify policing the world and “helping”” when they’re not wanted, while they deny people who actually actively seek out their help?

 

I thought that the documentary was really well-done in that is was very cinematic. The use of actual footage paired with interviews of those involves made the climactic moments all the more nerve-wracking. The stats at the end of the documentary was an interesting way to end it, like a total count of everything that happened in the documentary. Theses stats surprised me as well because they reflected the sheer willpower of all the Golden Venture passengers, in that many of them survived a cramped boat trip for months on the Atlantic in miserable conditions, and then jumping into freezing cold waters from the massive vessel.