Every time I read an article in The New Yorker, I think their writers must be the most talented in the world. In 9 minutes, Fan presents so many facets of this epic film. I'm so excited to watch a movie in which white people are tokens and Western centers of cultural gravity are treated as if they have finished their reign. So daring and fresh.
A couple lines I especially loved:
"His depiction of the Asian-American experience resonates the way that messages scribbled on bathroom stalls occasionally do, articulating uncomfortable truths that are generally too politically incorrect to discuss in the open."
"In my teens and twenties, whenever I watched the few available movies about Asian-Americans—mostly indie productions—I felt refreshed but suddenly and awkwardly exposed, as you do when, after a shower in a hotel bathroom, you catch a glimpse of your bare body in a mirror that you had forgotten was there."
Every time I read an article in The New Yorker, I think their writers must be the most talented in the world. In 9 minutes, Fan presents so many facets of this epic film. I'm so excited to watch a movie in which white people are tokens and Western centers of cultural gravity are treated as if they have finished their reign. So daring and fresh.
A couple lines I especially loved:
"His depiction of the Asian-American experience resonates the way that messages scribbled on bathroom stalls occasionally do, articulating uncomfortable truths that are generally too politically incorrect to discuss in the open."
"In my teens and twenties, whenever I watched the few available movies about Asian-Americans—mostly indie productions—I felt refreshed but suddenly and awkwardly exposed, as you do when, after a shower in a hotel bathroom, you catch a glimpse of your bare body in a mirror that you had forgotten was there."