Deviations From Reality
- While Vietnamese people normally address each other by their given names, even in formal situations, the characters in Boat People address each other using surnames.
- The film's English title is misleading: Boat People does not tell the story of boat people, it instead tells the plight of Vietnamese people under communist rule, the reason causing them to become boat people. The Chinese title, literally meaning "Run Towards the Angry Sea", more accurately describes the film's content.
- All the characters in the film speak Cantonese instead of Vietnamese, but Vietnamese is used in written text and when characters sing.
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