Crazy Rich Asians (2018) - Our Bad!

★★☆☆☆

The two-star rating is for first, those enjoyable songs and music, especially the Coldplay’s ‘Yellow’ cover that is lyrically good and a bit touching, and second, the sort of shocking news about Rachel’s family revealed in the end that actually works like an in time wake-up call as I was considering the film a complete turnoff.

I started dozing off just 30 minutes into the film to be honest. To me it’s like a boring Cinderella story without fancy stuff like glass shoes, or more specifically, a travelogue to Singapore! I know it’s supposed to make me laugh but I don’t find any of their jokes or acting funny anyway! It gets attention just because it’s the first Hollywood film featuring all Chinese. Well, they’re really not Chinese though. They’re just bananas—yellow on the outside but white on the inside! Being yellow speaking Chinese doesn’t make you Chinese! Being yellow speaking English doesn’t make you not either. It’s more than just skin colors and languages but of course we always tend to judge a book by its cover!

The film’s got nothing against the Chinese being crazy rich or anything. It’s not judging! You won’t feel inferior or superior watching it as Chinese. But those in the film considering themselves real Chinese are in fact having a problem with the ABC—American Born Chinese, or bananas, a more prejudiced way to put it! I guess racism, discrimination, prejudice or stuff is inevitable as long as there’s human, because men are raised and taught to differentiate and label so as to feel worry-free and settled. That’s our instinct! That’s our bad!