Didi strived to make a "casual" movie about a teenager second generation immigrant boy who crashes and burns as he learns how to skate, talk to girls and love those around him. All of Wang Wang's flaws feel so real and honest coming from the director. The experiences Chris goes through in the movie are grounded and real. Chris, played expertly by Izaac Wang, isn't naturally a like-able character and yet I found myself empathizing with him from start to…
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American Beauty 1999
Such a perfect movie. Kelvin Spacey's performance as the lame suburban dad turned nihilistic free man feels every bit real as the setting. So much of the movie focus's on the lives of people in the suburbs/upper middle class who have fallen prisoner to the sedated lifestyle. The movie almost feels like a documentary the way the jungle-eske music plays while we observe our characters. It feels were at the zoo, observing the animals except those animals are a representation…
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