The vibrant colour of Eastern culture is so beautiful and I
love it. But I don’t love, because it
involved too many “yellow-washing” (not racist here) and other controversial
issues. Of course, a lot of people just watched a movie from a viewer point of
view. But, I am very much less shallow on the movie production because to me, a
movie is sacred with the cast and storyline, even pre-filming is important. Actually, one of the producers (unnamed)
suggested to “white-wash” heroine Rachel Chu, but was declined by the author, #KevinKwan. Now, with all cast mainly be Asians (excluding Indians and Malays),
isn’t this a form of “yellow-washing”? This contradicts with Sepet 2004 in
which all dialects, races were featured in the movie (https://ipohboyjourney.blogspot.com/2020/06/sepet-2004-Yasmin-Ahmad.html).
(Sepet available for free at Sepet 2004 starting 30/5/2020 for a week)
The main reasons the whole movie were attractive for its
storyline, and how taboo an interracial relationship can be in Malaysia, and of
course, it was filmed in IPOH. (1 mark for location; 1 mark for the director).
The word “Sepet” is kinda a mean word to laugh at the small and single eyelid
of Chinese. But, I like how Yasmin turns this around. To me, my eyes have been
quite nice and double-eyelids, so nobody did tease about my eyes though. Hahahahahaha.
With so much racism issues going locally and internationally, I highly
recommend this movie on exploring how differences could co-exist.
