(06-19-2023, 04:31 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: People see what they want to see, what they're conditioned to see or what they can relate to. It depends on what they want to get out of whatever they're watching, reading or listening to.

I haven't seen the movie, and the Atlantic article came out first,  but I got the impression that if the CNN reviewer hadn't connected "fire people = my parents", they wouldn't have enjoyed the movie.  All they wanted to talk about was the Asian thing.

I remember I read a lot of stuff about Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, before and after I saw it.  A lot of that stuff barely mentioned that the main characters were Asian immigrants.  They mentioned how it defied categorization and expectations and was really fun, and then maybe they mentioned the creators were Asian.

Representation of minorities is a good thing.   But it's no good by itself. If it's the main good thing you can say about a new movie, it's probably not a good movie.

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