i can’t believe i had the audacity to think that this might be decent. i went in really wanting it to be good given the topic was interesting to me but it quickly unraveled from there.
so exaggerated and full of inaccuracies (despite the actual dr ming wang at the end saying everything was very much true in a bizarre plea to scan a qr code). my chinese dad grumbled “lies” when they said he was 1 of 4 out of a million(???) to get into his college. the mcat costing $1500 back in what, 1980? it literally only costs like $300 in 2024 😀 why would lili just disappear that did not happen back then in communist china lmao
there were moments that i wanted to enjoy like him working hard to balance his job with studying but the “racism” moments immediately brought me out of it. i think they wanted to show how hard it was for a chinese student to make it back then, but it came off as caricatured and 100% let’s laugh at these clueless asian people who speak bad english and can’t fit in. couldn’t help but feel like this movie was not trying to be sensitive nor go deeper beyond “i help blind orphans adopted abroad from third-world countries.” oddly paced, essentially nonexistent plot and overall hard to watch.
i actually liked the actors (esp teenage ming; praying they get booked on bigger and better things 🤞) but the accents were very inconsistent and from all over china. it isn’t a dealbreaker and i get it, it’s angel studios. they’re probably not going for historical accuracy and maybe it was hard to find actors, but that’s what precisely makes me so mad. the perspective is completely off. zero thought went into writing this or finding someone with an inkling of background knowledge to fact check. as a sidenote, for some actually (slightly) better historical chinese representation watch netflix’s three-body problem. i actually liked their depiction and everything felt as authentically chinese as a western production could get.
word on the chinese web is that the real dr ming wang financed the entire film himself, which, combined with the ending message with the qr code evangelism, raises even more eyebrows. i cannot help but feel like everything from the start felt ingenuine. it encapsulates everything i dislike about parts of the medical field. i guess i shouldn’t have expected much but i am still mad
also i’m just annoyed that bro still felt the need to put his MD, PhD (summa cum laude) degree in the end. who keeps track of that in grad school
i can’t believe i had the audacity to think that this might be decent. i went in really wanting it to be good given the topic was interesting to me but it quickly unraveled from there.
so exaggerated and full of inaccuracies (despite the actual dr ming wang at the end saying everything was very much true in a bizarre plea to scan a qr code). my chinese dad grumbled “lies” when they said he was 1 of 4 out of a million(???) to get into his college. the mcat costing $1500 back in what, 1980? it literally only costs like $300 in 2024 😀 why would lili just disappear that did not happen back then in communist china lmao
there were moments that i wanted to enjoy like him working hard to balance his job with studying but the “racism” moments immediately brought me out of it. i think they wanted to show how hard it was for a chinese student to make it back then, but it came off as caricatured and 100% let’s laugh at these clueless asian people who speak bad english and can’t fit in. couldn’t help but feel like this movie was not trying to be sensitive nor go deeper beyond “i help blind orphans adopted abroad from third-world countries.” oddly paced, essentially nonexistent plot and overall hard to watch.
i actually liked the actors (esp teenage ming; praying they get booked on bigger and better things 🤞) but the accents were very inconsistent and from all over china. it isn’t a dealbreaker and i get it, it’s angel studios. they’re probably not going for historical accuracy and maybe it was hard to find actors, but that’s what precisely makes me so mad. the perspective is completely off. zero thought went into writing this or finding someone with an inkling of background knowledge to fact check. as a sidenote, for some actually (slightly) better historical chinese representation watch netflix’s three-body problem. i actually liked their depiction and everything felt as authentically chinese as a western production could get.
word on the chinese web is that the real dr ming wang financed the entire film himself, which, combined with the ending message with the qr code evangelism, raises even more eyebrows. i cannot help but feel like everything from the start felt ingenuine. it encapsulates everything i dislike about parts of the medical field. i guess i shouldn’t have expected much but i am still mad
also i’m just annoyed that bro still felt the need to put his MD, PhD (summa cum laude) degree in the end. who keeps track of that in grad school
