Long Live the Queen
12/10/2018 | 3m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
LONG LIVE THE QUEEN, a film by Aaishah Ale-rasool.
A young woman named U76T lives a mundane and ordinary existence, going to work every day at a factory and collecting her food ration. But everything changes one day when she’s summoned by the queen and meets someone unexpected along the way.
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Muslim Youth Voices is a production of the Center for Asian American Media. Funding provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Building Bridges Program and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Long Live the Queen
12/10/2018 | 3m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
A young woman named U76T lives a mundane and ordinary existence, going to work every day at a factory and collecting her food ration. But everything changes one day when she’s summoned by the queen and meets someone unexpected along the way.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ U76T: My name is U76T.
QUEEN (via intercom): Wake up, citizens!
It's time to start working.
U76T: I was living in what I thought to be a normal and mundane existence as a factory worker, until one day, when everything changed.
QUEEN (via intercom): U76T, you are a great worker.
Please come to my great and glorious palace tomorrow.
♪ (people talking in background) GIRL: Yo, got any food?
U76T: Yes, but what happened to your food rations?
Surely the great and glorious queen could not have made a mistake.
"Great and glorious queen"?
Ha!
She's neither great nor glorious.
She's just brainwashing you, and so I've escaped to the rebel state.
♪ (echoing): Rebel state?
(screaming, echoing) ♪ You're gonna find out the truth!
U76T: Why would our queen do that?
This just seems wrong.
At the forbidden library, I discover a lot of horrific things that the queen has kept hidden from the country.
The queen has taught us that there is no war because everyone loves each other.
The queen has been controlling us using dark magic.
♪ My trance is completely broken.
(wind howling) I know what you've been doing!
Do you, U76T?
Without me in control, this country would be in chaos!
U76T: It already is.
You've brainwashed your people to follow you blindly!
It was worse, which is why I rose to become in control.
Didn't you learn anything in your research?
I have cameras everywhere-- including your brain!
As you are a good worker I will keep you alive.
You will have as many food rations as you desire.
But from now on... (echoing): I will be watching you closely.
♪ (gasping) (crowd chanting in distance) U76T: I joined the rebellion.
I feel the future is bright.
♪
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Muslim Youth Voices is a production of the Center for Asian American Media. Funding provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Building Bridges Program and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.