The respective creators of 'Past Lives' and 'Joy Ride' discuss tapping into the universal human experience through hyper-specific stories.
This past summer, two movies exploring facets of the Asian-American experience hit theaters. Both arrived by way of female filmmakers marking their feature-directorial debuts. Both drew critical acclaim, but they couldn’t be more different.
The reason this feels connected to what we’re talking about is that when an industry standard does not support the language you want to write in, that’s a structural way of communicating to you implicitly that the industry doesn’t want your story. So you can either say, “I don’t think anyone’s going to want this,” or you can say, “I want this. It’s gonna make me happy.” AL: It’s an act of faith. I grew up in Malaysia and came here when I was 19. Until then, I was Chinese in Malaysia.
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