Word: lin
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...other Asian-American filmmakers, “they’re holding on, to see how this film does,” Lin says...
...These kids are so smart that they build façades, which leads to more repression, and I wanted to explore that,” Lin says. “That was the most important thing to me, the number one goal...
...don’t want to fall into the model minority myth,” Lin says, “I didn’t want to make a film about teen violence where the kids were all ‘good.’ You see plenty of these kids on TV, and they’re always there for an Asian reason...
...even Lin says that he had trouble “looking outside the box” and crafting realistic characters...
With its specific perspectives, it seems that Better Luck Tomorrow focuses on an extremely narrow microcosm of life. But Lin says he is confident that identifying with the characters—Asian or otherwise—will not be a problem, emphasizing that the complexity of life is a common thread that ties everyone together...