This not only fills the screenplay with a constant feeling of discovery, wonder, and thrills but also ensures that there isn’t a single dull or exposition-heavy moment in the film

he challenges of parenting haven’t changed much over the years and have only metamorphed and assumed different forms owing to the changing state of the society, sexuality, relationship dynamics, and socio-economics of the times.

While racism and sexism in older films are usually rationalized (if not excused) by historical context

Asian man, one with virility and impossible physical abilities. Lee's characters were cold, violent, and a bit mysterious, but undeniably alluring.

the fear traces back to sex — the men were either sexless or sex-crazed. The women were conniving dragon ladies or docile concubines.

casting white actors to play Asian characters, or “yellowface”; outright replacing Asian characters with white ones to justify casting white actors; and centering whiteness in stories set in Asia or based in Asian mythology or culture.

Treating Asian American representation as conjectural is a sly rhetorical move to show how Asian American representation is not actually allowed to exist in film. That said, there’s a fine line between Asian American representation not being allowed to exist and its not actually existing to begin with.

as white people around me made jokes about how Asian men are sexually undesirable because they’re overly academic, unathletic and insecure.

During the yellow peril era, the notion that Asian men were feminine or asexual also took root, says Connie So, an American ethnic studies teaching professor at the University of Washington

of the strongest prevailing ideas

I think it's just a testament to the fact that a lot of people are curious and asking why and how we exist in the chaos and frenzy that we do. It seems like a piece of vocabulary for our society right now to try to unpack the cosmos.