Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Li Ling | ... | Sasha |
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Brian Danforth | ... | Boshen |
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Minghua Tan | ... | May |
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Zhi Hao Li | ... | Driver |
Hiep Thi Le | ... | Mother at Mall | |
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Djinn Ong | ... | Father at Mall |
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Roxy Ong | ... | Daughter at Mall |
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Finn Carlito Ong | ... | Son at Mall |
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Jay Patumanoan | ... | Security Guard |
Jason W. Wong | ... | Alvin (as Jason Wong) | |
Nanrisa Lee | ... | Mary | |
Jacintha Charles | ... | Party Guest #1 | |
Pamelyn Chee | ... | X | |
Patrice Binaisa | ... | James | |
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Qing Lin | ... | Karaoke Woman (as Qxing Lin) |
Decisions and reality. Sasha is a young woman from Beijing, studying in Nebraska. She flies to the Bay Area and meets up with friends, including Boshen, a gay man who was the lover of Yang, a member of Beijing's Opera who got Sasha pregnant four months before. She's made an appointment at a clinic for the next day. Boshen thinks he, she, Yang, and the baby can be a family. After a contentious dinner, Sasha meets X, a call girl on her way to a party with older men. Sasha goes too. Later, Sasha asks X to travel the world with her. Reality awaits the next day. As the annual St. Stupid's Day Parade passes by, Boshen accompanies Sasha to the clinic. What will she decide? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
This is a story about lost generations on both sides of the Pacific. Some of the lost on the American side are older, because we got here first. Some of the lost more recently immigrated because as we all know, their star is rising as ours is falling.
I didn't hate this movie. I felt for the lead character, who comes across as a spoiled brat in the total absence of any real support system visible to the film audience. Her alienation & loneliness is a metaphor for the age in which we live, where we may have more friends on social media than we have in real life.
That she at least felt for the life inhabiting her body, when most of her cohort were completely indifferent, made me sympathize with her.
The individual scenes of the movie were pretty well done, I thought, but when strung together did not make for a great movie.