Review of The Big Sick (2017) by Yezo — 18 Sep 2017

I am afraid this movie is not as appealing to myself as an asian. I understand this movie could be a culture shock to American, European or Australian, but to asian, it was the norm back in a 100 years time. Parents would arrange marriage and apply family pressure to their kids. In addition, the pressure about career for asian is probably no less than Kumail in the movie, and it is not even funny and I am still a disgrace to my family in terms of career choice.

I do agree the view from Kumail about how their people behave as where they are from instead of being American, which is a rare opinion. As a Chinese in Australia, I have seen 99% of Chinese would hang our with Chinese in China town, talk Chinese, eat Chinese food. And they would never interact with the local community at all. Some of them would have never watched a T20 or football game despite they live in Australia for more than 10 or so years. I try hard to be part of the community, and tbh it is not as difficult in Australia because the Aussie are generally not racist. I get most of the jokes, and they are not as funny, whereas I find the situation / interaction between people is funnier. I would recommend you to watch it.