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  Today, with social media that is used to document every aspect of our lives, individuals have the ability to tell their own stories with ease. Despite the easy access we have to documenting our daily lives, it is difficult to find stories that are as open to the idea of documenting the life of the individual in its rawest form.  In aka Don Bonus , the filmmaker is not afraid of discussing his own emotions of loneliness, grief, frustration, and fear. He describes his feelings to us, while explaining where those feelings are stemming from. He does this openly and without judgement, but the audience understands that he may not share these feelings and emotions to the people that he interacts with in his daily life. It is a venting piece, a piece of documentation as well as a work of art.  Despite our technological connections to other people, there is always the question of an online persona. Even though people want to share their lives with others, there is a disconnect t...

  The release of the 2018 film, Crazy Rich Asians , introduced an Asian American experience to mainstream media. The fully asian cast allows a surface level view of Asian and Asian American experiences. Although this film attempts to display these characters as a fully developed people, it does not succeed in many ways.  Hollywood films rarely stray away from the structure that they are accustomed to. There is a conflict to overcome, and in this case the conflict is being accepted as a poor foreigner into a wealthy home. The characters react according to their surface level character traits. The male lead is supposed to take over the family business while his love interest attempts to leave in order to give him that future. The tropes that this film uses allow the audience to already know the conclusion, because a Hollywood film needs a happy ending with everything wrapped in a bow.  Although casting a fully Asian cast is an achievement for Hollywood, it feels the sa...