[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Image courtesy of Amazon.com"] /caption] Take Out 2004, USA Directed by Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou Written by Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou Starring Charles Jang, Jeng-Hua Yu, Wang-Thye Lee, Justin Wan English/Mandarin In the context of film reviews, ‘hypnotic’ often means the critic fell asleep, but got the DVD for free and is trying to be nice. This is why Jean Rollin films keep getting positive notices, and why Jim Jarmusch still makes movies (click here [1] to send the hate mail). But in the case of Take Out, no more apt adjective exists. And it’s a good thing it applies, because otherwise 90 minutes of a sullen deliveryman carrying around fried rice would seem like the ninth circle of a minimum wage hell. Ming Ding (Charles Jang) is an illegal Chinese immigrant living in New York. Crippled by the debt incurred getting himself smuggled into the country, Ming finds himself short on his loan payments, and...
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