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Joan Chen Brought Real Emotions to Dìdi’s Perfect Final Shot
Chen and director Sean Wang on the real histories and emotions that went into Dìdi’s quietly moving final moments.
There is a moment at the very end of Dìdi, director Sean Wang’s feature debut, where it becomes clear that the film you’ve just seen is so much more than the story of one 13-year-old’s coming of age in Fremont, California. With a sister about to leave for college, a grandmother who has entered a slow physical decline, and an absent father, Chungsing is Chris’s only true constant and therefore the easiest presence for him to define himself against. Watching her, it’s hard to not feel a sense of relief at her character’s complexity, given our culture’s oscillating obsessions with the stern aesthetic of the girlboss mother and the submissive tradwife.
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