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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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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