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Past Lives 2023
This is very a bad take, and it's probably because Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was mentioned, but Past Lives lowkey reminds me of Heloise and Abelard. No, I will not be expanding upon this.
Edit: Also, the Arthur Miller plays on her desk and bookshelves was genius. The Price and A View from the Bridge?? The detail and thoughtfulness in this was amazing.
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Balikbayan 2004
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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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