TAKEN FROM THE LOVE LIFE OF AN ASIAN GUY (facebook) because everyone needs to know
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Stiles5339 — 10 years ago(January 08, 2016 08:21 AM)
I have no idea who this question is targeted to. So, I'll answer the best way I can if it was directed toward me, a name is a name - is a
name
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kirsten_ot — 10 years ago(February 07, 2016 12:07 PM)
You're right, but if they'd cast a Japanese woman, or any other east Asian (cos lets face it, Hollywood thinks all brown people are interchangeable), it would have made no sense to have her speaking English. Obviously many Japanese people do speak English, but it would make no sense in the film to have a Japanese person interacting with other Japanese people in Japan, in English. And they wouldn't be able to market it as a blockbuster horror with subtitles.
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GravityCakes — 10 years ago(March 25, 2016 08:44 PM)
As a person who went to school at Berkeley and lived for years in the Bay Area, I just laughed out loud when I read your comment about the Golden Gate Bridge as you are wrong. People travel/have traveled from all over the country to jump off the bridge in addition to actual Bay Area residents just as the other poster commented about the forest in Japan and Niagara Falls. Very famous, iconic sites like these attract just that sort of attention (people also have committed suicide by jumping in front of subway trains in New York). It is not that much of a stretch when I visited Niagara Falls in fact I remember reading stories about people who had traveled from all over the world to commit suicide at that famous site, and they were even doing this in the days when a country wasn't a short ride on a jet away.
I love Natalie Dormer (since her days on The Tudors), and the cinematography in this film looks beautiful so I plan to see it at some point. Rejecting it for purely political reasons (and I am very sympathetic to the poor treatment of Asian actors in Hollywood, believe me) seems gestural and empty. Maligning this film will accomplish zero as far as the suicide epidemic in Japan is concerned.
"Hearts and kidneys are tinker toys! I am talking about the central nervous system!" -
viciouslove — 10 years ago(January 06, 2016 09:37 PM)
The woman that dissappears in the movie was working in Tokyo as a school teacherso she was already there. Obviously you just assumed and don't know much about the movie. A lot of Americans take jobs in Japan and many other countries.
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dreamdoggie — 9 years ago(April 05, 2016 10:10 PM)
Exactly, I highly doubt everyone that goes to that forest to commit suicide is one race or another. Every race, every gender has more than likely taken their life in said forest, so it is realistic. If statistics said 100% this race or this gender committed suicide in this forest, that's one thing - but, that isn't the case here.
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inuimari — 10 years ago(December 21, 2015 11:42 PM)
This " LOVE LIFE OF AN ASIAN GUY " can F Off.
Just got banned from his site cuz I told a girl not to be so judgmental. He basically said that a lot of Asian parents beat their kid. Some posters said that that is abuse and they recanted how abusive their parents were. And this one chick went on dissing all those people who were saying it was abuse. I told her not to be so judgmental and then I got banned. I wasn't even using a swear word. And some of the posters were saying that people who are saying that spanking their kids is abuse where pu&&y white people. SMH.
He's okay with child abuse but is now complaining about mental health among Asians? WTF, man. Total hypocrite. According to this ridiculous site, "tone policing" is a real thing and it's bad. What the. There's nothing wrong with being nice to people online and your assumed minority status (as in people assuming they are in a more disadvantaged class than those they are speaking to) does not make it okay for people to be a b1tch online. -
gumshoebelly — 10 years ago(January 01, 2016 05:19 AM)
Most Americans are to lazy to read subtitles . I like being able compare different directors vision of the same story. Why make a crappy American version when there's an original that kicks ass i.e. "Old boy" , " a Tale of Two sisters". Laziness pure and simple.