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Everyone I know finished the movie so it's just me. Going by the usual Academy logic and the contenders this year, I can also understand why it won. I just got bored so fast - barely 20 minutes in, right at that tax meeting during her 2nd mental fade in/out of the janitor closet after changing her shoes. The next 31 minutes before I paused it was really me hanging on for dear life cuz I was trying to like it. I really think Michelle Yeoh was 👍in it and the lines of her pov on her life/marriage were refreshingly brutal and raw, I think it's a first!
Apart from that, the entertainment factor is mostly seeing on big screen and laughing along at familiar aspects of the Asian family stereotype living in western country, showcased as THE primary setting in a Hollywood movie for once, and not as one of the stories within. I think the balance was just nice, authentic so asians will find it funny but not overly so 'western' audiences who have been exposed to asian behaviour will also chuckle along. Which means for audiences from countries that don't really have the whole chinatown community going on and therefore less intuned with it - the movie is likely to suck monkey balls cuz it's watching a bunch of unfamiliar actors warping in and out of universes (the jump thing gets old real quick by the 3rd time..) with a matrix knockoff operator support that's not really humor, fun absurdity or satire at all. Plus you can guess the ending from by the time they say Jobu..