Predicting this is a critical moment; though not perfect, it feels like the best iteration of the movie everyone's been trying to make for the last decade and the guidebook for aspiring filmmakers for the next decade. It captures youth and subculture grounded in a certain time, a unique perspective requiring a true lived experience that also feels universal, and a clear allegory, all run through a somehow simultaneously overly ironic and sincere filter of undeniably youthful editing and scoring…
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Cyclo 1995
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
I've heard this quote often and always felt conflicted by it. Growing up Asian American usually means this quote is framed into the idea that Vietnamese should speak to a deeper, nostalgic, emotional core of me. I never really understood why this was so alienating until watching Cyclo.
Especially recently, the…
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Dìdi (弟弟) 2024
Past Lives, Minari, The Farewell, Bao, Turning Red, Shortcomings, and now Didi
In summation of all the AAPI art discussions I've hard recently, I am finding it harder and harder to speak positively on AAPI art in its current form. Do these movies offer anything more than a personal anecdote begging for relatability? I think the central axis that I turn to great artists for is their ability to digest, synthesize, and express. In general, I am finding that with…
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