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Yun Yun's Minari, a Korean Film by Lee Isaac Chung
Stephen jan has a beautiful zoom face. His lab top camera points slightly up towards his chin, which accents his sharp cheek bones and delicate nose. My face, by comparison, looks like a russet potato with eye slits scooped out with a spoon. By a visual code most koreans know, yun's pale skin and delicate features connote cosmopolitanism while my dark, musier features evoked the rural peasantry. The problem is that the anxieties never go away. Every capitulation to the white gaze comes with shame. Every stand you take for authenticity triggers its own questions about what tutes authenticity. And once you feel comfortable with the integrity of your work...