Condescending
Though this is the result of a seven-year exploration into the Asian fetish phenomenon (white male for Asian female, not Asian female for white male), Lum can't find a pattern across all of the men she has researched, and so she focuses on this lone, rather unusual relationship. The man is an aging bridge toll taker, lonely, likeable, not of privilege or advantage, while the woman (thirty years younger) is, in essence, a mail order Chinese bride that he meets on the internet. Their story makes an interesting study in desire, connection, cross-cultural fascination, and cross-cultural tension. But Lum focuses her judgmental eye so narrowly on these individuals that she fails to see the larger forces at work in the shaping of the couple's relationship--globalization, infatuation with the exotic or different, balance of opposites, need, evolution, beauty, and--eventually--love. The movie might have also gone outside the box and explored the white male's rejection of his 'own kind.'...
Interesting but...
Interesting exploration into this topic but where is the rest of the documentary, Amazon??? The original film is supposed to be 84 minutes long and Amazon only has 35 minutes. Did I pay the rental fee for a trailer???
interesting documentary, but the instant video stream is incomplete.
the product is incomplete as the documentary cuts off at 35 minutes, as mentioned in the other review. please fix this!
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