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April 21, 2003
maybe ill name my kid "virgil"..
so esther and i saw better luck tomorrow last nite. very interestin movie. i liked it--actually, i more than liked it. im somewhere between 'liked it' and 'really liked it'..
im not good at summarizin plus, im not one to re-iterate plots. but i would classify it as a dark comedy w/ 'comedy' bein used in the haha-sense of the word not in the shakespearean..
i saw the preview for it a few real world episodes ago w/ the milf guy doin a monologue (i first thought it was a public service announcement w/ me thinkin: "how sad--from box-office-hit to canned-tv-show to talk-to-your-kids-commercials..") and found it very intriguing. it wasnt until i read a friends review that i realized the film had an asian-american slant. so then i became even more intrigued..
however (<-- bad grammar), i actually didnt think it was that asian in nature. i went into the theatre expectin some sort of asians-lost-in-america propaganda and came out pleased that it was anythin but. while the asian-american sub-text was weaved into the story, the plot and themes didnt revolve around it so much. a wash post review i read said it best: "Lin [the director] simply takes his Asian American context for granted, rarely addressing it explicitly yet making it an inextricable element of his characters and their stories."
i think wut this movie did for me (why do i hear jfk when i say that? "ask not wut a movie can do for you but...") was make me wish i had done more things in high school. not necessarily the things these kids in the film did, but just things that may have accelerated my growth as a person (yeah, as opposed to a 5'5, slight-framed, acne-faced teen). it reminds me of things i had desired back at that age--whether i was aware of em or not--and the decisions i made then whose consequences (or lack thereof) i still wonder about now..
hence, better luck tomorrow i guess..
Posted by chars at April 21, 2003 02:08 PM