The Bleeding Edge.

AuthorBoehm, Eric
PositionFILM - Movie review - Brief article

A Canadian cybersecurity expert working with the Chinese government to build an electronic surveillance tool suffers unexpected heart failure. He's able to get a heart transplant within mere hours because of his importance to the project--and then discovers that the replacement organ was harvested from one of the country's thousands of political prisoners.

That's the plot hook of The Bleeding Edge, a film from the Canadian director Leon Lee. This fictional story is based on Lee's award-winning 2014 documentary Human Harvest, which claimed that thousands of imprisoned practitioners of the religion Falun Gong have been killed to supply organs to Chinese hospitals. Officially, the country has no organ donor program; the government maintains that hospitals are supplied only with organs from executed criminals.

The movie tells two parallel stories that intersect in an unexpected way. As the Canadian contractor (Jay Clift) tries to expose the secret he's uncovered...

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