The Wedding Banquet

Saw this with a coworker and her friend. It was so bad that if I were alone I would have been pissed that no one else is around to corroborate.

Things I didn’t like: the acting, the length, I couldn’t - for the life of me - care about the stakes enough. It’s such a clearly American diaspora of a movie because, like, who wants babies that much? Who would give up money that easily? It was so messy. The arguments between the couples felt forced.

I’m sad to see Bowen play the same kind of low self esteem character twice.

Not a single abortion. Really hard for the anti-natalist in me.

Compelling things about the movie: relationship between Angela Chen and her mother. Min’s art.

Nothing about this movie felt satisfying to me except some scenes with cool colors, like when Min and his grandma went to try cakes and that space was bathed in a dark green light.