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Behind the Camera as an Asian-American Woman (ft. Grace Kim)
Eat Your Crust
The Loneliness of a Character
The circumstances are so wacky and weird like you don't realize it's about loneliness per se. The plot is not about a lonely person when you get to the central theme of what is the emotional core of this film. i've never been the type of person to write explicitly about my human experience because also i'm kind of like my life's not that interesting, she says.
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Speaker 2
and stuff and so because the circumstances are so like wacky and weird like you don't realize it's about loneliness per se like the plot is not about a lonely person when you get to the central theme of like
Speaker 1
what is the emotional core of this film you're like oh i realize it's about loneliness but we're not like following a character who is struggling with loneliness per se so that's
Speaker 2
all to say the kinds of literature and like art that always even
Speaker 1
from at a young age that was oh i always found like stimulating and like exciting was
Speaker 2
alternate realities and like dystopian literature i always loved and like i always love like kind of reimagining the world we see it now that still has all the issues that are present
Speaker 1
today are pervasive in like this newly imagined world but everything's a little bit like crooked you know likely different or off yeah and to me that's always been like very exciting and so i've never been the type of person to write explicitly about my human experience because also i'm kind of like my
Speaker 2
life's not that interesting i'm a regular ass person i never wanted to write about anything like that because i just didn't think it was interesting and that's just not where my imagination took me you know something that really really frustrates me is that like people are all about quote-unquote like diverse voices and like creating opportunities for underrepresented people but it's still
Speaker 1
like in such a post colonial fashion because
Speaker 2
underrepresented creators are only identified by how they're different from the majority culture all the people that are in charge of these initiatives that are supposed to be for diversity are usually like most of them
Speaker 1
are like white people and like sometimes they'll have like people of
Speaker 2
color
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