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Nice Modern Vietnamese Movie


I am 1/2 Vietnamese and grew up all over the US. My wife is full Vietnamese and very American. We both loved the film. I thought it was well acted with nice touches of comedy, drama, and action. Each character had depth that blossomed nicely as the film developed, making each of them likeable despite initial impressions. I also enjoyed how the movie showed that both high's and lows in the lives of the two main characters.

I highly recommended the movie to my daughter who is an intelligent, cool, Americanized young woman and was completely dissappointed when her major comment toward the movie was, "It was cheesy!" She lamented the low budget of the film and what she viewed as poor acting and typical storyline. I guess you can't please everyone. What can I say to convince her when she's grown up on a diet of high budget, fashion model actors, and crying on queue, world of Korean dramas? I finally found a contemporary, modern Vietnamese film that had a story that touched my heart without all that glitz and glamour, and wasn't about gangs or the war.

I know my own mother would love it, so maybe there's the dividing line... age.

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