Big Tony

Wonderful Indi - Film by Alice Wu, Joan Chen, Michelle K, and Lynn Chen.  Produced by several producers including Will Smith. Alice Wu had tried for 4 years before being able to make her film.
Wonderful in it’s delivery, the film shows the interactions of 3 generations of main land Chinese. References to the revolution, & Shanghainess are spoken through out the film with each generations of characters having varying degrees of accents.

I am quite amazed by the subject matter of the film. Joan Chen a widow and pregnet mother at age 48, and Wil , a successful surgeon and Americanized young Chinese -American at age 28 with a girlfriend from a broken family. (Divorce at a young age). Naked love scene between Lynn and Michelle was tender yet loving. The cute couple that calls each other old dog fart and I love you in Shanghiness during the uproar @ the wedding, and MA commenting to Wil, that she should not tell her she loves her, and that she is gay in the same breath.

Although no strong Chinese males were portrayed other than the older generation, I think people would have gotten the wrong idea about the gay topic and asian males mixed into one plot. It’s a good thing Yao Ming is around. But certainly, there must be a movie with Asian males who are not gangsters, nerds, factory owners, red guard, accountant, kung fu master, software engineer, lab tech or restaurant waiter in flushing, who also do not speak hip hop ebonic English.   I guess this is better than,  the  dude in the most recent Deuce Biglow, European Giglo, who decides he wants to take his 3 inches somewhere else.
A chick flick? A Chinese culture merging with western culture flick? (Like My Big Fat Greek Wedding?) Perhapes. But it was definitely more entertaining than American Pie 4 Band Camp.

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