LIGHT YEARS better than Lost in Translation

I had a film in the Napa Valley Film Festival and this was playing so I checked it out expecting a 'decent' romp, a stranger in a strange land finding love... but man, what a fresh, AUTHENTIC script. The "white guy" was the local while Jamie Chung was the foreigner, when everyone else would have had it the opposite. The dialogue was spot-on, to a T, of real banter between two people and taking a seemingly simple situation "two people walk around Hong Kong getting to know each other" it's a very endearing journey.

You are battling your morals as well (won't give anything away), wanting these two to get together. There are two "fall off the cliff moments," the dancing scene and the end where you get mentally exhausted because you want them together so badly. I do feel Bryan is a 'little' too honest in the first bar scene. 98% of guys wouldn't just reveal his situation to her... they'd just go with it and figure it out later.

This film should have failed on so many levels but it doesn't, I promise. This delivers on what I thought "Lost in Translation" was going to be... that film let me down and was so pretentious and it just all felt forced and you don't care about them. This? Total opposite. I can't fathom who gave this a 6.6 rating so far... it's not, not even close. I will warn you though that the end is definitely aggravating, haha. It's "Inception"-like, and I'll leave it at that. The audience was hilarious, they were all like, "What!? WHAT!!!?"

Emily Ting -- you should be proud of yourself and this film. This is EXACTLY the kind of film I'd like to direct next. Bravo.