In this exclusive clip for The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, a filmmaker and his girlfriend argue about his reaction to a film that one might think he would be excited about, just because it included Asian American representation.
, which hits theaters August 4.centers around a filmmaker, Ben , whose girlfriend Miko moves from Los Angeles, where she works for an Asian American Film Festival, to New York for an internship. With Miko gone, Ben has to really think about what he wants from his life and his art.
In this exclusive clip for The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, Ben and Ally argue about his reaction to a film that one might think he would be excited about, just because it included Asian American representation. Or, as he calls it, “representation or whatever.” “In this scene, adapted from Adrian Tomine's graphic novel, Ben and Miko argue over the merits and symbolic importance of a movie they just watched,” producer Hieu Ho tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed. “Within Hollywood's cinematic history, from the early 1920s to present day, there's been relatively few multi-dimensional portrayals of Asian Americans.
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