I saw this guy on Lucifer and I really liked him - though that was a shitty episode full of GAWD etc. But some really great cgi composite work towards the end. And the piano playing was ace.

We are less alone!!!!
My dad's going to SL soon, but I haven't been in years.
Hey unsolicited book recommendation : Rajith Savandasa's Ruins. It's a debut from an Australian Sri Lankan author and it deals with the end of the war and so on.

Yes. Even though, if you examine a lot of these parents they too seem to have issues with anxiety. Irony

OMG! I'm embarrassed at how excited this makes me!

Hey I'm interested in good films, but on this head, yeah my points are about representation of Asian immigrant stories. Thanks for the recommendation though.

Yeah but even the bitches are fetishised in some way. It angers me Erica. Of course, it would be great when Asian men are less stereotyped too.

Thanks - though more a claustrophobic thriller if it's the one I am thinking of. Also not really an immigrant story but I'll check it out.

If I can insert myself into the convo, as a SEA immigrant my perspective is that SEA parents view education as a job. I teach now and overwhelmingly I see SEA kids whose parents push education as a potential status getting thing.

Silly me. Though I think that the idea of Asian women being decorative, and sexually objectified (see The Quiet American - I still can't quite figure out if Greene was being ironic) in Western art is what annoys me about this.
I mean shit I'm cloistered but Bend it Like Beckham is the last film I can think of where…

I'm not saying that this is some kind of demographic grab by filmmakers, I do find it strange that Asian immigrant stories seem (to me) to be overwhelmingly coming-out stories. Again, my perceptions are flawed.

I guess My point is that it seems cinema is only interested in presenting special Asian immigrants, and the wideness of experience is condensed into one very specific story. Thanks for the recommendation.

Thanks for the recommendations, like I said I have very little knowledge of wider cinema.

Yes this is really the point I'm trying to make. Even if the immigrant experience is not explicitly dealt with, if you have a immigrant as the protagonist, the story deals with the experience.
I sometimes feel like the explicitness simplifies the conflict. For instance I would love to see a story where the Asian…

I have no problem with there being gay protagonists in any film; it's just my impression (which is flawed) that Asian immigrants aren't interesting to the cinema world unless they are dealing with this specific prejudice from their community. And the problem I have with that is, I feel it's already a well mined space.…

Hey thanks for this. As I said my lack of film buff-ness is totally contributing to the impression I have. I will look these up and hopefully be able to catch them. I live in Australia so it might be harder.

This sounds good. Though sometimes I wish we could have cinema about Asian (including South Asian) immigrants that doesn't deal with very similar issues. I feel like I can name three films about gay, male Asian protagonists and I'm not even a film buff. Why isn't there a film where the mother is the protagonist? Or…

No

Thass jus plain ole prejudice right thar

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Yeah but Australia is not just white - though that is ALL Hollywood wants from us.