Reading:
Frank Chin’s work is satirical. That is why his writing is grotesque, absurd, surreal, and vulgar. A quote from the Frank Chin trailer I liked was that he illustrates a Chinese American consciousness by remembering experiences that make Chinese Americans who they are.
Shaolin:
Shaolin monks have a bizarre lifestyle that seems to come straight out of stories and legends of being rigorously trained to human physical and mental limits since childhood. It’s silly to see how people who have lived like that all their lives mesh with American culture when they immigrate here. Shaolin monks who have only known life as a monk seem like very simple and straightforward people.
Joy Luck Club:
I thought this movie had as many good parts as it did bad parts. The intense childhoods and backstories were interesting, they clearly showed how the characters developed their personalities. The different angles and similarities between the life stories were interesting. It seems that the parents were trapped by their cultures and upbringing while the children were all half-trapped, with potential to be free, but ultimately still confined to the same boxes their parents were in. Something I didn’t like was the main character’s personality, it was a very generic simple movie main character woman personality. That same main character personality was in Crazy Rich Asians and that Japanese Internment movie we watched.