![]() Feathers tickle most on sensitive skin.Īs someone who has known the celluloid John Cho since American Pie, I can’t overemphasize what a revelation he is here. It’s not a Marx Brothers type of humor dependent on clever lines, but instead on the generous vulnerability shared by two lonely people. Their quiet interactions still crackle with natural humor. But the film loves them so much more than that. I feared Jin and Casey would be drawn to each other like flying insects to the bright light of plot necessity, during which they would gaze seriously into the distance as they rattled off semi-deep questions to one another. To be honest, the ponderous trailer worried me. Joseph Campbell, The Hero With A Thousand Faces, yadda yadda yadda.Ĭolumbus is superb because it succeeds quite marvelously in its scaling of stakes. So Columbus isn’t narratively groundbreaking, but it doesn’t have to be. Plenty of bad incarnations too, like Broken English, It’s Already Tomorrow In Hong Kong, and Away We Go. We’ve seen it in Brief Encounter, Roman Holiday, Summertime, the Before Trilogy, Once, and Lost in Translation, just to name a few of the good ones. It’s the latest reiteration of a familiar premise: the serendipitous meeting of two strangers, often of opposite genders, who uncharacteristically open themselves up because of compressed time and space. She is happy to take care of her mother, a recovering drug addict. She’s a local, a year removed from high school graduation but still at home and working at the library. He never got along with his father and secretly doesn’t want him to recover. He’s a Seoul-based book translator who has just flown into the town of Columbus, Indiana - a “mecca” of modern architecture - because his famous architecture scholar of a father has fallen into a coma there. Thus, a subtle film like Columbus needs to immerse the audience into the context of its characters, to make us care about the few times that Jin (John Cho) and Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) see and talk to each other in non-life-or-death situations. They don’t need dragon battles to care about things. ![]() Yet people will still be deeply invested in the small outcomes between the time they wake and sleep. On any given day, very few people will save lives or win a war. Even a nuclear war looks like small potatoes next to a supernova. In stories, there are no small stakes, only improper scaling. The other, Kogonada’s Columbus, was a much less bombastic work, but still no less imbued with a total Asian American subjectivity. riots (see Plan A’s interview with him here). One of them was Gook, Justin Chon’s timely and explosive exploration of racial conflict through the oft-ignored looting of Korean American businesses in the 1992 L.A. But more on that in that show's individual thread.August 2017 was a remarkable time in Asian American cinema, where not one but two Asian American-led and Asian American-starring films were released to some of the best reviews of the year. (Although the same cannot be said about Emily In Paris lol. There's plenty of shows and movies that depict characters who dress normally, and I don't need that from SATC/AJLT. I enjoy the colors, textures and volume that don't necessarily make sense in the "normal world" but visually speaking, it's fun to watch. I don't always love the ladies' outfits but collectively speaking, I enjoy the whimsey and over the top nature of it all. To balance out the negativity, I will say that I'll continue watching bc like most of us here, it's like a comfort blanket we're all familiar with. Also, these women are in their mid 50s yet they're making them out to be senior citizens who have zero social interaction with the outside world. Not to mention, Steve owning a bar would have also drawn a diverse crowd and coworkers which Miranda would have surely interacted with through the last 10+ years. Like did they learn nothing from the last decade or were all the women just kept in a time capsule that they only crawled out of this year? I live in NY and as diverse as it is, there are certainly people who are incredibly sheltered and stick to their own safe bubble, but to me, that fits more into Charlotte's personality and not Miranda, who was a highly educated partner at a law firm who likely came across all different types of people through her career. And ditto on the cringeworthy way Miranda acts around her professor. Click to expand.I totally agree with you! I know the writers/producers etc probably wanted to make everyone happy by being more inclusive but they have pretty much always missed the mark.
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