EEAAO Review blog
Reply from Nicholas McClinton Overall, I really liked the movie. The two things that most impressed me were the narrative and the cinematography. The plot was straightforward in some respects but complicated in others. A mother who is Asian American tries to comprehend her family better before it all falls apart in front of her. She spends the entire film trying to ultimately escape the numerous decisions she made that she despised since birth and improve herself for everyone in her life. She initially understands that nothing she does genuinely matters. However, she is able to draw the conclusion that in order to ensure that what we do have is what we need, we must maximize the minor joys we experience in life. It matters what we go through in life. It would probably take me a day to talk about how wonderful everything was in this movie because there are so many more tiny little lessons and stories that are told inside it. But I also want to talk about the film's cinematography. T...