A middle aged Chinese woman tries to rescue her daughter from being an r-slured nihilistic zoomer. In the process she deals with every kind of relationship a human being can have in their life.
On a superficial level I love it because of representation. The first movie in my entire fricking life that depicts the community I live in where it's all asians with an occasional white person on the side (me).
But mostly I like it because about real shit like how you relate to your spouse, your kids, your parents. If you watch it and don't cry you are probably a homosexual.
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Agreed.
Tho, if you watch it and DO cry, you are also a homosexual.
Face it, you're a homosexual.
And probably a furry too.
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!biofoids am I doing this right? Also if you're ever lonely and want a guy to watch Castle with.
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Yiff in heaven fur friend
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I'm a little split on this movie because it's a little long and a little too self indulgent. I still think I'd recommend it to most people though, I wish there were more unique movies like this one.
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I agree, but it's still got some really memorable characters and moments.
Heck, it's worth it for raccacoonie alone.
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I'm sorry sir, we call them People of Colour now
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I totally get what you're saying here. For me it worked well enough that I stayed onboard through the end. But if it's not working for you, you're going to feel it's too goddarn long and takes itself too seriously.
For me it helps that Michelle Yeoh was a goddess to my community (Chinese diaspora in the 2000s who I'm choosing to identify with right now). There's a bunch of in jokes about her career that keep it light hearted and bring it over the finish line.
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I noticed the length and some mild pacing issues on a rewatch, but I was having too much fun the first time.
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Yeah, it looks like the kinda film where you watch the director/writer suck his own peepee for two hours.
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It was longer than it needed to be but yeah great movie
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I wanted to like it but the bagel metaphor was so forced and unfunny it basically ruined the rest of the movie for me.
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It's mentioned like once and that ruined the whole movie for you?
Yeah I'm gonna have to diagnose you with being a fricking queer.
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Mentioned once? Its a major plot point for the entire movie, heres the director being incredibly gay about it:
The idea that this "baby's first lesson in nhilism" pun turned plot device isnt "too eye roll-y" is r-slurred and incredibly disappointing material from the guys that did such a good job on Swiss Army Man, one of my all time faves. It felt like it was pulled from rick and morty. "Get it morty burpppp cause, if the bagel has everything on it morty, like realllllly everything, you'll be on there too morty"
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I'm sorry that the motives of the depressed young girl weren't grown up enough for you. Maybe you would have preferred it if she talked like an elderly philosopher but it would kind of ruin the whole point of the movie, the relationship between the mother and daughter.
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The motives were fine, completely appropriate for the character and that actresss did a good job, but the actual plot device of "the bagel" was so uninspired and dumb that it took me out of the rest of the movie.
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I don't understand the hype for this movie. It wasn't the worst but I felt it was trying too hard to be zany and adhd and any emotional depth suffered as a result.
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as much as I hate to identity-post, I feel the same way when something from my local area gets featured which happens about once every century
film is pretty cool too. I thought rdrama would hate it tho because reddit likes it
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It's Divine Mercy Sunday
I haven't seen this movie and have no input on it but go to Mass finally
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