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Shirts & Skins (2002)
Shirts and Skins (2002) indie film
This film grabs your attention and holds it through its 20-minute showing on the IFC channel. The character, played by female Sam Tsao, is named Anne Wiseman, a cigar-smoking career climber who attends a diversity seminar with an older man of Chinese descent. An attractive woman who is trying to break through the glass ceiling of her male dominated workplace. The actor plays her role superbly. She wishes to be thought of as one of the boys and not the Chinese-American she is. She also wants to be considered non-Asian, by her peers. The ending of the brief film finds her expressing her emotions out of sight of others in the ladies' room. Highly recommend this film.
Kids in America (2005)
Light comedy, weighty subject, a moving feast of a film.
The film offers viewers an all too brief journey into politics and playfulness in a public school with an overbearing principal running for political office. She expels the male lead and Mr. D, voted teacher of the year for 5 years running and the one teacher who challenges his students to think, is fired and as expected the students rebel. A somewhat predictable story of teenage angst and a 2005-view of sexual orientation. A public school ruthless in its policing duties, the protagonist-principal has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of her own narcotic narcissism, spewing exclusivity and dominance over the intellect, conscience, human potential of the students and teachers at her every turn. Unreceptive to interrogation, she cannot form or tolerate new ideas, try as she might to shape the thoughts of others, or tolerate independent thought. Yet there it is - a diamond glitters: Emily playing an ABC (American-born Chinese, third generation) and a scene stealer of the first order, predatory, yet sentimental and sexy. We recommend you see Emily, oops!, the film.