The Most RELATABLE Asian Movie Ever Made?

is Dee possibly the best Asian-American Coming of Age film ever and should you go watch it when you have the chance we're going to talk about it Andrew you especially like the movie de because growing up you were the Dee uh we got to talk about it Andrew it says the film DD tackles Asian-American teen anks at the peak of Myspace aim and flip phones and a lot of people are calling this the best Coming of Age Asian-American movie ever and by the way there have been quite a few in this play both mainstream and Indie oh yes on Rotten Tomato's audience and Tomato scores uh has very high scores right now almost 100% uh acing it you know like a Asian parent would love you to have uh also it had a limited theater release it is out in theaters right now but limited theaters so you guys go check it out I watched the movie and I got seven reasons why you might want to watch DD and trust me I'm not getting paid to say this I just think it's a pretty good movie real quick what do you give it out of 100 and what's it about all right I watch it my Tomato score is I got to give it at least like a a 90% I think it's pretty high it is definitely up there uh maybe the best Coming of Age story but we're going to talk about it because there's been some other ones guys real quick I just want to shout out to better luck tomorrow the debut that was a Filipino one uh chain can dunk counts Boogie counts DD these are coming of age for Asian-American guys particularly right right right the main actor is Isaac Wang he played a uh nerdy Asian kid wanting to become like a cool hip-hop skater Maha Park the director Shawn wng and actually the legendary Joan Chen still hot by the way plays the mom Joan Chen still looking good in the movie uh Shirley Chen also is one of the actresses plays the biggest sister uh I guess she graduated from Harvard in real life so so so it's a long story short what it's a kid growing up in Fremont California his dad's in China he's being raised by a single mom he wants to be cool but he's not cool and he wants to participate in the mainstream American culture where he doesn't get any of the things that the other kids get right because he doesn't his mom's from China or Taiwan uh essentially I would say that that was not wrong uh yeah but yeah basically he's a kid he likes skating he likes filming it's Loosely based on things from the director's life Shawn Wang I don't think that it's exactly his life obviously but I think some of the stories are inspired by his life all right Point number one Andrew you said it's the best of the similar style of Coming of Age movie by the way if you seen what Andrew turning red the farewell tiger tale I mean we could just go down the list there's a lot of coming of age Asian-American films is there yeah I think for a millennial Asian-American guy uh particularly a Chinese American guy from the West Coast but I think that this can I'm going to talk about how it can relate to a lot of people but particularly a Chinese American from the West Coast guy who's into who's trying to be cool there's some twists in it too right that make it unique because I heard that his mom is not a tiger mom in the movie yeah so uh it's more there's aspects that are going to relate to you in aspects that won't but essentially I will say it's very well written it's very funny it shows very accurate depictions of uh all the lifestyles of the early 2000s when you're on AIM and you got Myspace you got flip phones you know YouTube is just starting up uh JK films is featured in there as one of the YouTubers that he watches so I guess that it is so it's so of that time and I think that there's a lot of Asian-American guys who are in their late 20s and 30s who are going to heavily relate to this right right right Point number two um it has some typical traits to it like they rated it R for cursing but not much else there's not a lot of sex or nudity in yeah yeah so I would say for an Asian-American coming a film with like a kid on the front cover you'd be like oh is this like some Disney stuff is this like PG-13 at most no it's R-rated because they just curse a lot but other than that there's I mean there's a little bit of violence uh you know some teenage uh not even sex it's SM weed at least yeah there's some weed I say this man I like that they made his mom a quasi single mom because growing up when we were going to Chinese Church you did have kids that were doing like five hours of cello and piano and like straight Kuman straight Harvard but you also had kids whose parents were single moms like I'm saying even at church there's a range of experiences but only the 10 out of 10 tiger mom gets depicted in media yeah yeah and I'm glad that she's not a tiger mom you know the mom without giving too much away you know she's struggling on her own to raise these two kids because the father is in Taiwan making all the money and who knows what type of Life he's living out there but over here essentially in this movie functionally she's kind of like a single mother but there's also another side to her cuz she's an artist too so it's like you have an artistic mother who's trying to raise two kids who isn't the bread winner but the bread Winner's not pres so it it does provide a lot of other um I would say aspects that are maybe not super super typical of a Taiwanese American family but there's definitely you saw it it's real it's real you know a family that was like that point number three you will resonate with some of the other aspects like his relationship with his older sister being very contentious yeah and I would say it's a pretty extreme uh version of the contentious relationship with his sister but it is very relatable I had I was there with another I was there with a Taiwanese American friend who actually has an older sister and he was like wo like the aspects of that the vibe between him and his sister that was very relatable to me also having a lot of Indian friends yes because now here's the thing about the at typicalness of this movie is that it's not like so better luck tomorrow did take place in Orange County which most of the the cast was Asian right because you know that that was Asian some there was East Asian and some Southeast Asian in there and then a lot of other films kind of depict Asians as a side character amongst non-asians but in this movie because it's Fremont California heavily Brown and heavily Asian still and back then when they were growing up and to this day also I want to say Hassan Minaj is from that area too you know so it's like there's a lot of like funny brown guys in it too like he he got some cool like sik friends and like Hindu friends and he also has a Korean friend he has like there's a Filipino kid somewhere in the mix you know what's interesting it's like and I I'll pop up the photo of him with the seek friends here it's like I always noticed that growing up my Indian friends or the SE seek people we knew growing up obviously in South Seattle there was a lot of seeks it's like they don't struggle as much with trying to feel cool even though people do treat them different because they feel cool because of their religion and their identity yeah yeah and you can see like it I would say in a lot of these Coming of Age teenage films there always is like a hipop influenced nerdy Indian guy which totally is a archetype by the way oh my goodness in Mean Girls there was that I mean if you went to just any sort of like in college and above you have a Indian homie who's essentially like a college educated version of nav but I will tell you this the interactions between the boys is funny and it is very relatable so Point number four I think it can actually appeal to non-asians I think it doesn't hold back it doesn't feel like a too squeaky clean of an Asian film you know there is a lot of cursing there's a lot of like young bro teenage talk there's about they talk about girls there's a little bit of violence there's uh some partying obviously some slight drug use so you're saying non-asians won't be like dude I can't even watch this it's just like way too Asian yeah and I think it depicted the non-asians in the film as being uh you know in the Bay Area they're more open it's not too racialized there's obviously race is talked about it him being Asian is part of it but not the main Crux of it is the wolf pack and the cataracts in it that's what I need to know blueberry afcan I I think they play a uh a a a a the sneak or like they I think they they definitely play a couple bar area songs uh Point number five I think that this is a great movie to get us over the hill so that we can also move on to other topics like I think that this coming of age story was actually done very well it was very good and that you know I don't know of this exact type of character I would want to watch 10 more of these movies I don't need to for my life you're saying this is the coming of age story to End All Coming of Age story well I think for a particular type of kid um because I think that I have a feeling that like certain things of the childhood like I don't need to watch a hundred of those Coming of Age movies to understand myself I think that I'm at a point where I appreciate this movie but I think there could be definitely space for another Asian guy coming of age story but from a different perspective like maybe more from a Southeast Asian perspective bang bang did the the gang gangang bang bang did it but that that wasn't a big movie and and uh that was good though but I would say like yeah definitely like in the coming years I would like to see some like Southeast Asian kid or like a younger Filipino kid or another Southeast like a Vietnamese kid I think there's a lot of stories to be had there all right Point number six Andrew we have to support Asian Indies not just the Hollywood stuff uh because even though a lot of the Hollywood people we know them we're friends with them we came up with them I'm happy for them it seems like everything in Hollywood is got like five or 10 people of the same people in it yeah I love to see the new faces and I think that these the people in this movie are potentially the next generation of a lot of the Asian actors in Hollywood you know um I think they're very hopeful uh and then point number seven guys obviously it's the fun Bros Channel we always talking about media depictions of Asian males and in this movie We're very you know it can get very picky if you want it to be and I would say honestly I thought the depiction of being a young Chinese American teen was fair I thought it was realistic he had the flat he had the flat bull cut yeah he had the bull cut um he's trying to be cool he likes to skate uh he doesn't really get clown on for being Asian too much and obviously depending on where you grew up in the United States you got made fun of more but I like how people did point out his race but it wasn't the main thing about the story you know like they have some Asian nicknames of course but that's essentially it so I feel like I also I think in the Bay Area because there is such a variance you could be like quote unquote a nerdy Silicon Valley Taiwanese or you could be like a B boy DJ Filipino they they they they don't just go off race they go off race and how you act and your personality and your culture yeah and I think that basically for a lot of people they want their a24 film I'm not saying this was produced by a24 but it kind of could have been saying they want their Donald Glover Atlanta high-end take on their Community yeah you know whatever the farewell did for certain Asian girls like I think that this movie does for Asian guys for sure all right let's get into the comments section somebody said hopefully it's better than Chan can dunk I never got pissed off with the Asian-American based movie since the farewell that movie made me mad um I thought Chan can dunk it's not really good but there was some moments that I liked but yeah I would say that this from what I'm you're telling me and other people are saying this movie doesn't have a lot of cringy moments yeah I mean I would say this movie actually has a lot of authentically awkward moments that kind of make you go squir and your seat a little bit if you relate to it be like oh I know what that feels like oh but uh no it was honestly not a cringy film obviously Chen Ken dunk was coming from the super Disney side they kind of made it like this Fantastical like uh Luck of the Irish or like High School Musical type movie it was like mixed with like airbud yeah yeah yeah I'll say this the next section of comments said dude this might be an unpopular take I am so sick of sad overly emo asan American stories all right all right somebody I think it was a friend of a friend who was a female who watched DD and said she cried and then I was going into it I was like okay how sad is this movie does the grandma die at the end spoiler alert it's not that sad it's not that sad it's not a sad movie I don't think it's a sad movie I'm the Asian guy you know if you're Asian guy that relates to that but maybe some of the trailers were you know what I mean different trailers some seem more make you cry is some of his relationship ship I think with his sister if you're an older sister and you felt like you had this type of relationship with your younger brother I could see it making you cry right you're saying crying not because of the intensity but the intenseness of the relatability and the depth of the relatability um somebody said are you guys ever going to speak on unspoken or what yo we just found Andrew our friend Ray kuang dpd this movie basically he shot this movie it's about an uh a Mainland Chinese dad his daughter is an international student gets murdered in the states and he comes back and goes on a rampage on everybody yeah I can't wait until this movie comes out guys we talked about in a past video we even showed a part of the trailer we're talking about this movie but I think it's make I heard it's making the circles around the the festival circuit right now listen listen here's the truth you could argue that unspoken is more of the theme that Asian America needs to address its actual problems more than another Coming of Age story but in terms of just the mechanics and the profitability and the marketing demographic pools it's hard to get these unspoken style I I'm a promote it though but it's hard to get them to get traction you know what I'm saying oh we'll do a review when we watch unspoken for sure um somebody said man the artsiness really just relates to me the other Coming of Age stories they were good in macro but the micro execution didn't relate to me this feels like hipster enough I agree um somebody said we got to talk about the othering experience a lot of us didn't grow up with extreme hate R hate from the world calling us the seword but a lot of asian-americans just felt super othered like uh like we were aliens but here's the thing Andrew is it our culture that is super alien or are people seeing us as alien or a combination right um other people just people are saying that it wasn't based around race it was more based around culture because the Bay Area has always had some super cool Asians depending on how they acted right um this one guy did say Andrew he doesn't like how it seems and he's saying this is this theme of this movie Just going to be like fully assimilate to the American MTV bet mainstream and then you'll be accepted you know what I'm saying you know some of the old school Asians they hate that but it's like also it is logical too that you have to understand MTV and bet all these influences they shape your generation obviously the Asian kids we may not have been allowed especially if you have traditional Asian parents Chinese parents you can't you're not allowed to watch MTV or bet so then how can you relate to the kids at school um no I wouldn't say this movie does that I don't think it promotes full assimilation I mean not any more assimilation than him at the beginning of the movie to be honest so it's not about that I will tell you that I don't think this movie really promotes that it's not like oh get your hair done like this and then start hanging all with the white guys like it's not I don't know right smoke weed and get bad grades and then you'll get the girl of your dreams no and I'll tell you this I thought the ending was fine I think some people have some debate about the ending of the movie I have some debate on how it could have been executed but honestly I'm okay with the ending I like it that's all I'm gonna say I don't want to spoil it for you this last comment said dude I don't know if this V movie makes sense cuz in 2008 all the YouTube creators were popping so this guy should have had more confidence okay there is some YouTube creators depicted in there if it takes place in 2008 maybe not all the kids were super on YouTube yeah I mean what are we arguing about a matter of years yeah 2004 and not only that I'll say this people's micro fish bowl that is made up of 30 to 50 people can be very different than what is like happening on a macro level two I will say you this Asian YouTube really really exploded 2013 in 20 no it started really exploding in 2010 so 2008 is still potentially early enough it's still at the time where like there's it's possible you're non- Asian friends didn't even watch one person on YouTube nowadays it's almost impossible because Asians review everything and there's some of the best product analysts mhm um ultimately I'll say this man I think that this is like when the the light bulb has the filament and the the light bulbs about to burn out and then you know how the light bulb Burns really bright right before it goes out this is almost like the filament of this like coming of age like Asians don't fit into the Western anglosphere World movie like this is the brightest one Andrew but potentially do you think it's one of the last ones you know what I'm saying because you had a string of these movies how many more are you going to make yeah well you guys let us know in the comments down below uh if you're going to watch the movie What's a what's another like are you into this coming of age idea I thought this movie was well executed and it's funny and there's plenty of cursing it's very relatable because yes kids curse surprise surprise I I'll will say this though Andrew do you think that these quote unquote sad emo movies this is just what Asians like because Asians like sad boy EDM they like keshi and they like to wear Essentials hoodies with ultra boost or whatever and I'm saying that those are kind of sad boy outfits so I'm saying that it's like yes yes they yeah that's why Asians will like this movie it is Artsy and kind of sad and edgy enough and cool enough for the Asians to appreciate all right guys let us know what you think in the comments section below until next time we the hopa boys we out peace