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Wajib 2017
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
There's just something really intimate and beautiful about this film. It asks probably one of the biggest questions of an adult's life: how do you learn to love the parent whom you have a strained relationship with? How do you and your parent come to terms with the differences between you two, and how do you talk to each other?
The film does not give you a definitive answer. It doesn't have a "happily ever after" equivalent where the father…
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The Sympathizer 2024
exciting adaptation, fun transitions, enthralling cinematography, but plagued with some of the most English instances of Vietnamese dialogue. at many points throughout this film, it seems like the dialogue was written in English first, then fed through a word-by-word AI translator and then handed over to actors to recite.
i have no qualms about the English-accented Vietnamese of the main characters; i've been around enough second-generation Vietnamese-Americans and diasporic Vietnamese in general to recognize the words being said. but as…
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