Progress? step back? better move

Lonnie 2022-03-28 09:01:02

The content of the story is vulgar, and the ugly duckling turns into a white swan. It seems that with the blessing of the independent struggle of the American spirit, Mary Sue is no longer Mary Sue; the superficial stereotype that treats all cultures equally, in the West, there are people who have no family , Yan Dongfang has a family and no individual; ignorant, a family of three generations, some speak Mandarin, some speak Hokkien, some speak Cantonese, some speak English, and finally say that you are not your own, so many yuan and so conservative, So divisive. These sci-fi content can only make people suspect that this novel is the author or screenwriter who combined some hearsay content with his own imagination. When an all-Asian film doesn't tell an Asian story, what's there to cheer about in an all-Asian cast? This all-Asian Hollywood movie seems to be more segregation than progress, these ridiculous schizophrenics who are both old-fashioned and corrupt, and naive and happy protagonists, of course, let Asians It is more appropriate to act. Maybe Hollywood has tried its best not to discriminate, so it's okay to hold it, but it just can't treat everyone as an ordinary, flesh-and-blood person. When Hollywood Asian-American actors can act on the basis of their acting skills rather than their skin color, or when they can cast films that touch human commonality beyond race, that's a progress worth celebrating.

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  • Rachel Chu: Thanks for meeting me here.

    [Eleanor eyes the other two women at the mahjong table]

    Rachel Chu: Don't worry about them. They're half-deaf and they only speak Hokkien.

    [Long pause as Eleanor reluctantly settles into her seat]

    Rachel Chu: My mom taught me how to play. She told me mahjong would teach me important life skills: Negotiation. Strategy. Cooperation.

    Eleanor Young: You asked me here, I assume it's not for a mahjong lesson.

    [Shows her tiles]

    Eleanor Young: Pong.

    [Snidely remarks]

    Eleanor Young: My mother taught me too.

    Rachel Chu: I know Nick told you the truth about my mom, but you didn't like me the second I got here. Why is that?

    Eleanor Young: There is a Hokkien phrase 'kaki lang'. It means: our own kind of people, and you're not our own kind.

    Rachel Chu: Because I'm not rich? Because I didn't go to a British boarding school, or wasn't born into a wealthy family?

    Eleanor Young: You're a foreigner. American - and all Americans think about is their own happiness.

    Rachel Chu: Don't you want Nick to be happy?

    Eleanor Young: It's an illusion. We understand how to build things that last. Something you know nothing about.

    Rachel Chu: You don't know me.

    Eleanor Young: I know you're not what Nick needs.

    Rachel Chu: [pauses] Well he proposed to me yesterday.

    [pauses]

    Rachel Chu: He said he'd walk away from his family and from you for good.

    [pauses]

    Rachel Chu: Don't worry, I turned him down.

    Eleanor Young: [sighs] Only a fool folds a winning hand.

    Rachel Chu: Mm no. There's no winning. You made sure of that. 'Cause if Nick chose me, he would lose his family. And if he chose his family, he might spend the rest of his life resenting you.

    Eleanor Young: [after a long pause] So you chose for him...

    Rachel Chu: I'm not leaving because I'm scared, or because I think I'm not enough - because maybe for the first time in my life, I know I am.

    [Choking back tears]

    Rachel Chu: I just love Nick so much, I don't want him to lose his mom again. So I just wanted you to know: that one day - when he marries another lucky girl who is enough for you, and you're playing with your grandkids while the Tan Huas are blooming, and the birds are chirping - that it was because of me: a poor, raised by a single mother, low class, immigrant nobody.

    [Shows her tiles. Gets up. Walks to her mom, who turns and glares at Eleanor]

  • Astrid Young Teo: It was never my job to make you feel like a man. I can't make you something you're not.