What are you watching 2023?

[iris lilies]

So, what I and my daughter liked about it was this:

It's about a Chinese woman who has a super stressful life--she owns a laundromat, is caregiver for her aging father, her husband is about to ask her for a divorce, she has a stereotypical "Tiger Mom" attitude toward her daughter, and she's generally unhappy. Events unfold and she's pulled into an alternative universe--one of many "multiverses" that give her an idea of what she could have been had she taken different paths. There are dangers on all the multiverses that require her learning physical and mental skills. And of course, there's the moral at the end of the story.

I liked that premise.

What I didn't like was the modern, high-tech direction, with fast cuts and hyper-stimulation. And it was long. One of those movies where you feel it could have stopped at the logical stopping point but goes on to two or three codas.

That's the gist

I heard an interview with the actor who plays the husband. His is an interesting life story. His family fled Vietnam. While in American school he saw a casting call for the Indiana Jones film. His brother was interested so the two went. The husband-actor did not try out but instead coached his brother from the sidelines.

Spielberg observed the spot-on coaching of this kid, asked him to read for the part, and he got it. A big break!

After that he had a few parts but when they dried up, he went to film school to do technical work. Getting the acting bug again, he signed with an agent and the Everything film was the first part offered to him. He choked up when thanking Spielberg for his first big break at a recent awards event.