A good story but....


... they could have afforded to make it a lot shorter.

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Could they?

Then they would have run into the issue of too abrupt a change from being wary of each other to liking each other and becoming affectionate.

Remember:
• This was supposed to be the 1950s.
• They had both lost children in WWII.
• At that time, neither Japanese nor American culture were all that tolerant of interracial friendships let alone interracial couples. (The neighbor Mrs. Rubin as well as the daughter and son-in-law all demonstrated that.)

They needed to show some hint of the time it took to overcome these obstacles. Perhaps what the movie needed was a better indication of how much time was passing between scenes.

I'm reminded of the film version of "My Fair Lady".
They are going on and on and on, apparently making no visible (or audible) progress at all. The staff is ready to "Quit, Prof. Higgins\ Quit, Prof. Higgins\ Hear our plea or payday we\ Will quit, Prof. Higgins." Then one more lecture from Higgins and Liza's speech instantly makes a quantum leap from gutter to posh.

"Answer simple. Question very hard."
— Inspector Sidney Wang — "Murder by Death"

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