This year the A24 really won hemp.
With the Asian American films "Instantaneous Universe" and "Whale", he swept six of the highest performance awards to become the biggest winner of the Oscar.
Recently, it collaborated with Netflix on a black comedy, which is really a strong team.
"Angry Life"
Time goes back 5~10 years, most of the Asians in American blockbusters are the background plates of Hollywood superstars, and the three or two shots that appear in the movie are enough for fans to blow for a year.
(Han Sung Kim so-hyun in "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald")
However, in the past two years, more and more film and television dramas based on the living conditions of American East Asian immigrants have begun to enter the audience's field of vision.
For example, last year's "Paches Game", which tells about the entanglement of four generations of Koreans.
Another example is the love story "Past Life" in which two Koreans know and fall in love.
The same goes for this Asian-American black comedy "Choking Life".
The male protagonist Steven Yuan-American Korean actor, the female protagonist Chinese talk show actress Huang Ali.
As we all know, the most taboo thing about driving is not only fatigue and drunkenness, but also road rage.
It all starts with "reversing".
The male protagonist Danny is a contractor who fails to do anything, originally he wanted to commit suicide, but in the end he couldn't do it.
He went to the supermarket to return the charcoal grill he had bought for suicide, but he couldn't get a refund because he didn't have a receipt.
Physically and mentally exhausted, Danny is about to reverse home, but almost collides with a white luxury car.
Danny has a road rage attack, and he didn't think that the white car driver is also a road rage master.
Facing Danny was an "international friendly gesture".
Why is everything not going well?
Danny was on his head in an instant, and the anger that had been accumulated for a long time finally broke out, and he drove at full speed to catch up with the white car.
Bai Che is not a vegetarian either, throwing bottles and yogurt on Danny's car along the way.
Danny was simply furious.
But his own car was too dish, and he was stuck in the grass on the side of the road when chasing the white car.
As he was preparing for his next move, the white car suddenly crashed into him.
A feint that brought Danny's anger to a peak.
He memorized the license plate number of the white car and prepared for revenge.
After returning home, he found the IP address of the owner of the white car through illegal inquiries.
It turned out that the owner of the white car was an entrepreneur Amy.
She had a successful career of her own and married the son of a Japanese artist, and the two had a daughter.
But only she knew that life was overwhelming her.
Tall and handsome has a false appearance for her Japanese husband, typical "mom baby + giant baby", does not make money during the day, and does not live at night.
Everything in the family needs Amy to take care of, even the mansion was bought by Amy, and the whole family is sucking Amy's blood.
It is probably because of this depressive and busy life that Amy has road rage and uncontrollably compares the middle finger to strangers.
However, what she didn't expect was that the other party actually found her.
Danny successfully enters Amy's home as a drain repairer.
And pee like a dog in Amy's toilet.
Amy was so angry that she ran out to chase Danny, but unfortunately she didn't catch up.
But despite this, she remembered Danny's license plate number and successfully found Danny's location.
Amy rushed to Danny's hotel with her one-meter-nine tall husband.
But she didn't know that Danny's cousin was in the hotel for secretly storing illegal items, and this hotel was no longer Danny's.
But Goose, Amy didn't give up.
She started swiping bad reviews on Danny's house repair website.
And successfully found Danny's social account and used the photo of his beautiful clerk to seduce the other party.
However, what she didn't expect was that it was his own brother who was holding Danny's mobile phone at this time, and the younger brother saw that the other party was a beautiful woman, and immediately added Amy with his account.
So Amy, without knowing it, began to frantically flirt with her brother.
The younger brother was provoked.
When Amy learns that she has provoked the wrong person, she chooses to make a mistake.
I got satisfaction that I couldn't get from my Japanese husband.
Danny looked at the sexy photos of the woman his brother had recently become obsessed with.
Can't help but use it to release energy.
One day he suddenly saw that Amy's back also had a tattoo of the woman in the photo.
He immediately realized that this was Amy's means of revenge.
As a result, the "fire" between the two escalated again.
There were even human lives...
The title of the play is "Beef", beef.
Why is it translated as "choking life"? In fact, there is an English slang phrase used here, "What's the beef."
It means, "Is there something wrong with you?" ”
This is related to "choking".
But it is precisely because of this choking East Asian appetite.
As soon as the play came out, it exploded directly on the Internet.
Douban has a score of 9.0, and the current rating is 8.9, all of which are four or five stars.
Netizens have given the highest evaluation: "The standard is so high that it does not match the tone of Netflix"
Originally, a trivial matter will not cause an uproar, but the protagonists are two people who like to choke, so it may not be.
That must be a day-to-day posture.
The male and female protagonists are hysterical regardless of the pressure of life, but they have room for everything, just like the male protagonist wants to burn the female protagonist's car with gasoline, but sees a child in the car, and stops in time.
They are a self-made female entrepreneur and a male contractor who is doing nothing.
The two people who seem to be parallel lines are actually the same kind of people.
Amy has a typical Asian native family, and she saw her father cheat when she was very young, and her mother knew that she chose to endure for the sake of the family and children.
Parents think that adults' things will not affect their children, but they don't know, so whitewashing Taiping pins their hopes on their children, and has a greater impact on their children.
A24 accurately captures the conflict between East Asian and Western ideas, and even after living in the West for a long time, the traditional Eastern thinking mode is still preserved in the mind.
Even if they have a fucking life, they want to defuse it in a lighthearted and humorous way.
But alas, Western therapies are of little use to Easterners.
Just like the male protagonist Danny always does not allow his younger brother to challenge his status, he will always inadvertently reveal the old-fashioned thinking of Orientals in his bones.
Orientals will only reluctantly "it's okay it's not important", while secretly crying and licking their wounds alone.
Both Amy and Danny are too easy to self-kidnap under the influence of their parents.
They will be guided by their parents to achieve what they want, but they never know what they want.
Although it is an East Asian American drama, the common diseases of East Asians reflected in the play are suitable for every East Asian in difficulty.
For example, the test editors who were driven crazy by their parents in the previous stage have too many lives that have been forced like this.
After watching this drama, I hope everyone can find what they want.