Katy, seeing a young woman working on a research paper on their bus commute, laments that this is the daughter her mother wished “came out of her vagina” - a line that feels like a comic actress’s ad-lib, but clashes with what we know about her character’s educational background. Shaun and Katy’s friends ride them for their perceived underachievement - before immediately clarifying that Katy has graduated “with honors from Berkeley” and Shaun speaks “at least four languages.” At the beginning of the movie, Katy establishes that her Chinese “sucks” - as is true for many American-born Chinese - but by the end, she’s somehow able to follow obscure directions in a formal, even courtly, Mandarin. Each time the script tries to knock down some well-worn stereotype - for example, that all Asian Americans are academically exceptional and can speak their ancestors’ tongues fluently - it undercuts itself. The scenes set in the United States are less fantastical but hardly more imaginative.
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The movie also treats us to a rehash of the trashy rendering of “qi” that showed up in the recent “Mulan” remake, turning a philosophical concept about the body’s energy into a glowing, transferrable “soul ball.” The dijiang is just ethnic window-dressing, sloppily appropriated along with dragons and a herd of do-nothing xiezhi (獬豸) - mythical creatures of great intellect and empathy, used here as the punchline for an Englishman’s joke. The level re-contextualizes the game's events up to this point (including the 'Animal Room' sequences in The Metro, Tension, Push It, and Deadline) as a blend of coma dreams and memories. In this chapter Jacket wakes up in hospital weeks after being shot by Richter with a silenced uzi. “Shang-Chi” shrinks it into an adorably anthropomorphized plot device and dubs it “Morris,” so it can guide our heroes through an ever-shifting forest maze. Trauma is the twelfth chapter in Hotline Miami, occurring on July 21st, 1989. Catalogued in “The Classic of Mountains and Seas” (山海经), a classic of Chinese literature dating from the 4th century, the dijiang is an agent of chaos. Consider the film’s animal sidekick, a six-legged, winged, faceless creature that appears to be a Chinese cryptid called dijiang (帝江). That village is set-decorated with exotic cliches: recklessly and ignorantly depicted mythological creatures, guys with long beards.
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