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‘Duddy’ Movie Review: Sean Wang’s 2008 snapshot of teenage life is intimate and effective

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It’s the stuff of horrors, mostly, to look back at your adolescence. Not just reminisce about the carefree days but actually Look In strange growing pains. Semi-autobiographical film by Sean Wang dd An equally ineffective and disgustingly specific teen snapshot capturing the final years of the Aughts.

Set in 2008 Fremont, California – a city defined by its proximity to Silicon Valley – dd Beginners are quick and eager to throw us into the deep end of social media. 14-year-old Chris Wang (Izaak Wang) rapidly switches from tab to tab on his computer as he punches through YouTube videos and responds to messages on AOL. Later, we see him in his basement, recording amateur skateboarding tricks, through the blurry lens of a webcam. Sean Wang directs his film within the vast scope of The Buffing Internet Age, as Chris and his friends “poke” each other on Facebook and learn about their crushes’ interests through their MySpace pages.

His script included Shawn Wang, whose documentary short I said no and I said Was nominated in 96th The Academy Awards balances the universality of a life marked by social media with the unique circumstances faced by a Taiwanese-American teenager. Chris steals his sister’s band T-shirt to impress his crush, skips a party and then samples a cigarette to fit in with his old friends. When around his friends, he is boisterous, reckless and a threat. At home, Chris is weighed down by his father’s absence, while he deals with his grandmother (Chang Li Hua), and a quiet but concerned mother (Joan Chen). At home, he is not Wang-Wang, who carries a dead squirrel in a backpack to show off to his friends, but instead “Daddy” as his mother and grandmother called him, which means “little brother” in Mandarin. Translates to.

DDI (Mandarin, English)

Director: sean wang

Mould: Izaak Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, and others

Run-Time: 91 minutes

Story: In this coming-of-age story in 2008, a Taiwanese-American teenager juggles her life with friends and her life at home.

Wang punctuates the outbursts among teenage boys with quiet inward contemplation. When Chris sees his mother using a knife and fork at McDonald’s, he chides her by saying, “You’re so Asian”. Later in the film, we see him leaving his school friends behind to go film skateboarding tricks with some older kids, to whom he lies and claims he is only “half-Asian”. The script, which at times can feel like it’s been filled out by Sean Wang with his personal diary entries, doesn’t concern itself with Chris taking himself through personal problems. To him, it all seems like a jumbled mess that he can’t understand. So, while the script is comfortable in its chaos in a similar fashion, dd Emerging as a standout coming-of-age film.

The film is underpinned by the performances of Izaak Wang and Joan Chen, who individually anchor the script’s pathos. Joan Chen plays Chungsing Wang as a reserved painter, a caring but cheeky mom whose scenes with Chris embody a range of emotions.

In ddi, Shawn Wang draws from his own memory, and from the public memory, of the experience of being a teenager in 2008. It’s a tightly shot, intimate, yet sweeping affair that weaves together personal memories.

ddi is available for streaming on jiocinema

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6GVE8GTSUU

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