Another reviewer was confused. It's not confusing. The story is simple - "killing" oneself in order to fit into the mainstream.
We see a, Asian (Filipino) young man who, on the surface, at least, is accepted by his white coworkers and by his fiancee, the daughter of the owner of a successful finance company.
She thinks he's accepted and his race doesn't matter. He knows otherwise and is very insecure. He tries to hide who he really is by denying his language and culture. His mom has dementia, but can still see things most cannot see. She occasionally doesn't recognize him, but the fact is, she doesn't recognize the person he's trying to be and not his real inner self.
They toss in a scene where he refuses to speak tagalong in getting of his peers and goes along with a tasteless "joke" at his expense. He goes to get a bottle of liquor to drink shots with "the boys"and his confronted by his "ethnic self" in a deserted parking lot of the company (he's there to get an award).
One of the commenters was confused by the characters' appearances, saying his sister looked Hispanic and his costume looked Mexican.
Maybe he should read up on Filipino history. *The Philippines were claimed in the name of Spain in 1521 by Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer sailing for Spain, who named the islands after King Philip II of Spain. They were then called Las Felipinas.*
At one time they were occupied by the Spanish and in fact many have Hispanic surnames. Also the outfit looked a lot like the types of clothing Asian farmers wear and the big brimmed hats they wear to protect their eyes from the sun.
*The Philippines' main agricultural crops are rice, corn, coconut, sugarcane, bananas, pineapple, coffee, mangoes, tobacco, and abaca (a banana-like plant). Secondary crops include peanut, cassava, camote (a type of rootcrop), garlic, onion, cabbage, eggplant, calamansi (a variety of lemon), rubber, and cotton.*
Not the best acting or script but certainly not incomprehensible.
We see a, Asian (Filipino) young man who, on the surface, at least, is accepted by his white coworkers and by his fiancee, the daughter of the owner of a successful finance company.
She thinks he's accepted and his race doesn't matter. He knows otherwise and is very insecure. He tries to hide who he really is by denying his language and culture. His mom has dementia, but can still see things most cannot see. She occasionally doesn't recognize him, but the fact is, she doesn't recognize the person he's trying to be and not his real inner self.
They toss in a scene where he refuses to speak tagalong in getting of his peers and goes along with a tasteless "joke" at his expense. He goes to get a bottle of liquor to drink shots with "the boys"and his confronted by his "ethnic self" in a deserted parking lot of the company (he's there to get an award).
One of the commenters was confused by the characters' appearances, saying his sister looked Hispanic and his costume looked Mexican.
Maybe he should read up on Filipino history. *The Philippines were claimed in the name of Spain in 1521 by Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer sailing for Spain, who named the islands after King Philip II of Spain. They were then called Las Felipinas.*
At one time they were occupied by the Spanish and in fact many have Hispanic surnames. Also the outfit looked a lot like the types of clothing Asian farmers wear and the big brimmed hats they wear to protect their eyes from the sun.
*The Philippines' main agricultural crops are rice, corn, coconut, sugarcane, bananas, pineapple, coffee, mangoes, tobacco, and abaca (a banana-like plant). Secondary crops include peanut, cassava, camote (a type of rootcrop), garlic, onion, cabbage, eggplant, calamansi (a variety of lemon), rubber, and cotton.*
Not the best acting or script but certainly not incomprehensible.
