5/11/2023 0 Comments The interior chinatown![]() The text is in typewriter font, and sections are labeled by location or scene title. For once, the spotlight shines on him and everyone he represents, as he decides what it is that he truly desires.Ĭharles Yu’s Interior Chinatown shows a staunch dedication to its form, mimicking TV and movies and dissecting its tropes. Nearing success but pondering what that entails in light of the hardship and discrimination he and his people continue to face, he finally takes the lead in his life. ![]() Practicing lines and martial arts dutifully, he aspires to be the Kung Fu Guy, upheld as the best part Asian men can play. Growing up in an unspecified Chinatown to immigrant parents of modest resources, Willis Wu follows in their footsteps as an actor, portraying variations of Generic Asian Man in the background of a procedural crime drama and envying the attention its stars garner. People are the masters of their own destiny, but it’s hard to harness the courage and means to shape it when suppressive societal norms and financial burdens relegate them to a statistic or stereotype. ![]()
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