Crazy Rich Asians

Review Crazy Rich Asians from the perspective of a fastidious movie

The most notable feature of the film is the film uses all Asian actors. This ensures that the movie gets a certain amount of attention when it comes out as well as limiting quite a bit of heavy criticism after the premiere (I believe if this is not an Asian American movie but rather a white-American film or an Asian movie like any other movie, it won't be treated as politely like that).

First let's talk about the plot. Cinderella's Motip and the girl prince / prince are too familiar and old, so modern movies will always try to add another layer of lang to the story to increase the content point. The use of only this structure makes the story of Crazy Rich Asians so frighteningly short. Even the Cinderella story is mutilated to be pitifully simple. Nobody knows how the two met, but no one knows how to propose, then they solve the class difference issue - the future career inherent in the beginning (or rather in the middle) of the film like how. The whole film only accurately portrays a scene when Rachel discovers Nick is super rich and collides with some of the super rich and tries to give up but Nick does not compromise.

Such a standard and brief scenario is full of holes that are hard to ignore. At first, after a year of deep dating, if Rachel didn't know anything about her boyfriend's wealth, it could only be because he deliberately disguised, not merely concealed, by a great professor. Studying a miserable childhood between New York and his real estate broker could not help but realize the income of a person who has been with him for a year. Watches, bags, clothes, wallets, food, utensils, etc. How many things catch the eye without looking?

Second, Rachel proved to be full of fighting with bad girls or with Nick's mother, but at the right point is the climax at the end of the story, she broke out crying and did not need anything anymore. bewildered.

Finally, after being so noble to leave Nick with his family, Rachel acted cool and preached to his mother for a bit before hastily agreeing to his next proposal. So Rachel played psychology game with Nick's mother to win the ultimate is to make her accept her and Nick to leave Singapore with her, or she just lack of energy before Nick's proposal? Nobody knows, because the film director doesn't have any minutes to make that clear.

Next is how to build a sloppy, unrefined context. To "talk" about the wealth of Nick family, a lot of supporting characters appear to tell the story about this family just like the marketing staff reads the promotional product price. The director tried to present the "evidence" of the super rich: guarded mansions, luxurious parties, designer clothes, expensive jewelry, excellent spas, etc. but only placed them carelessly. because elaborate to let viewers see the "rich". Nowadays, it is not necessary to be the richest in Singapore - the super-rich island nation - to wear LV bags or go to the spa or shop or organize a pool party. Even a poor person living in a poor Asian country like me does not feel the "super rich" of the film context, how can the people who are slightly rich, or rich, or very rich really feel convinced with the movie? this?

In addition, the characters in this movie seem to be framed intact from a textbook to teach romcom making: the handsome male lead is very expensive with the tiger mother, the popular female lead but the outstanding talent with the flawless family perfect but full of love, ridiculous women, men to laugh, the lady lady gossip, super girls only envy and play bad. You can say that it is not wrong to use these models, but the director has cast the whole block without giving up the coloring for the character.

Nick, Rachel and the other characters are no different from hundreds of thousands of characters in countless romcom sets that have been produced. I feel like they're not real people but a do-it-yourself role model that comes in time for script reading. The same feeling also appears when the director introduces East-West cultural conflict into the film superficially and cliché, just like Rachel wearing a red dress to the Asian boyfriend's house.

If I try to find a certain plus point for the movie, maybe I will spend half a point for surfing the specialties of Singapore and a point for the strange soundtrack (for me and probably for Western audiences. ). Left me really dissatisfied, even with the beauty and shape of the cast.

If I were to say whether the film would give people any more knowledge about the rich Asians, I would say yes, but not through the details of the film but through the people who spend money to produce this film. .

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