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Dead Pigs 2018
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
From the get go, it felt like an American film about a Chinese story. And to be honest, I would be chill with that as I can understand how the director might straddle between having a deep understanding of Chinese culture and being inherently distanced from it as a Chinese American expat in China. But the last 20 minutes of Dead Pigs really frustrated me because that western gaze, which subtly framed the film before, suddenly felt like a smack…
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Seoul Searching 2015
This movie was not funny, anti-Black and misogynistic. I couldn't make it past 30 mins.
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