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Orlando 1992
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"For the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy" – Virginia Woolf
I adored it. While I am exhausted by postmodernist elements in film/tv, I found it refreshing and effective in Orlando. I definitely need to sit with my thoughts on this. I loved this take on the queer/non-binary artist's coming of age story, one that can involve challenging and being challenged/restricted by gendered expectations (physical, historical, and spiritual).
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Balikbayan 2004
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First of all, I CRIED. This 5 minute short film captured the challenges of what being an OFW can be like (and is very similar to what my father experienced after my grandmother died). For a lot of OFWs, they are often the financial support and can often miss the big moments because they are tied down to that responsibility. It is fitting that the narrator is a nurse and the financial caretaker of the family.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Oh my god. I bawled my eyes out in the theatre.
I pondered if this needed an analysis through postcolonial or a marxist lens, but my analyses through those lenses seemed insufficient. I could waste my time on those analyses, but it’s very clear that this is a form of trauma fiction/film.
This was a really innovative way of portraying the generational trauma between first generation and second generation Asian Americans from the perspective of the parent. The parent’s…
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