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zhangjim

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East Asian's can't party? Definitely not as prevalent nor accepted as it is in the West, but there's plenty of partying going on in East Asia.
Lol, so East Asians don't swear, do drugs, party or act like assholes? Such things are pretty commonplace whether you go to Singapore, Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo, or any Mainland Chinese city.

Its just that in American media, people are conditioned to think Asians are only capable of behaving a certain way. Which in turn leads to some East Asian American content creators to think simply emphasizing these "forbidden fruits of Asian behaviors" and turning the dial up to 110 for shock value counts as effective writing, rather than actually focusing on developing their characters.
I see it as just a validation piece aimed at asians that want to be accepted by whites. Those that don't care for acceptance from whites, would not care about this movie, because it has no meaningful substance (from reading these posts). All it is to those of us that don't care, is, simply, a movie that tries hard to say "hey, asians can be 'just like' whites, so accept us".
Live your own life, and care less. It's liberating.

Edit: Also, asians that have a life in asian communities don't need to be reminded of these things, it's like being reminded that you need to breathe and eat food.
Publish a unified response here. From my personal perspective, this movie is bound to be very bad in the eyes of Chinese people.
Firstly, drugs are absolutely taboo in China. Once it comes to drugs, the police will never let you go. This plot is not funny at all for Chinese people, and it is an insult to China's drug control policy.
Secondly, jokes about sex may be common in similar American movies, but in my opinion, these actresses act like animals in heat.
Thirdly, in order to showcase the "uniqueness (actually weirdness)" of Chinese customs, the film showcases the eerie bar culture of Chinese people. These Asian Americans are completely based on this group's lagging and vague memory of China to shape this "background board". This background board is not really important in which country, anyway, the protagonist did not show any positive emotional connection to her hometown. When she realizes that she is actually a South Korean abandoned baby, she will exclaim that South Korea is truly a comfortable and normal society, and even Wi-Fi signals have become normal.
In my eyes, all the behaviors of the female protagonist in "showcasing herself" are like those of a person with intellectual disabilities. And the suffocating Chinese accent. Is the ideological level of Asian Americans limited to using a series of superficial behaviors to please the mainstream?

Add: I repeat what I said before, hoping that these Asian Americans will not have any relationship with China when they "showcase themselves" next time. They do not have any feelings towards China, but just to show their sense of superiority by belittling China in front of the mainstream in the American.
 
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Lethe

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Since Cormac McCarthy passed a few months back, I have been revisiting some of his work, including the Coen brothers' masterful 2007 adaptation of No Country for Old Men, which was my introduction to McCarthy as it no doubt was for many others. It's one of the those films where each scene is an artwork, each exchange of dialogue a poem, each shot laden with atmosphere and imbued with meaning.


 

SteelBird

Colonel
What is it? It already disappeared
Here is the trailer:

The movie's title is: 朝歌风云. I forgot them title in English. It stays on Youtube for one day only (less than 24 hours) and was removed due to copyright issue. It is another version of 封神榜 but in this version the role of Da Ji and Jiang Zhi Ya is not so obvious. They stress more on human behavior more than Gods and Devils. Jiang Zhi Ya come to human world trying to save human being from disaster and Da Ji used her devil power to help Yin Shou to become king of Shang but Jiang Zhi Ya didn't achieve anything and Da Ji was not killed either. All the good and bad were done by Yin Shou, the king of Shang.
 

Lethe

Captain
Damn, didn't hear of this. I liked Blood Meridian.

Just a shout-out here to this guy who has a
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dedicated to some first-rate literary analysis of Blood Meridian. I've gained plenty of insights from listening to this stuff (his voice seems remarkably appropriate for the material I might add) but perhaps the most striking was this explanation of what is going on in the epilogue and its thematic relevance.


TL;DR: They're digging holes for fence posts that will ultimately enclose the American west and bring the era the novel renders to a close.
 
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