Heard about Crazy Rich Asians? I’m sure you have.
It is very difficult, if not impossible, to not have heard about it. It is all over the news and social media.
Crazy Rich Asians centers on Rachel Chu, a American-born Chinese economics professor, who travels to Singapore to attend her boyfriend Nick Young’s best friend’s wedding. It’s there where Rachel discovers that the Young family is not only well-off but extremely rich.
The often told storylines of its attractions and popularity are a breakthrough in leads casting, casting a storyline of asians different from stereotypes and the celebration of soapy tale of love in spite of discontent challenges in a opulent and crazy world filled with wealth excesses.
The movie is a first full-length film in over 25 years to feature a predominantly Asian-American cast (the last being Joy Luck Club) in a story that’s set in present-day. None of them are playing scientists, martial artists, assassins, or courtesans — the kinds of roles Asian and Asian-American actors are frequently reduced to playing. Instead, Crazy Rich Asians is the rare American movie that allows Asian men and women to be objects of affection, glamorous wealthy villains operating in Singapore society’s most elite circles and a love story of tug of war between seeking personal ideal vs fulfilling family responsibility.
Many movie goers could identify one or more aspects of the movie, be it one’s identity, personal values & ambition and of course the triump of love above all else.
What Nuseir Yassin, Internationally Recognised Vlogger of Nas Daily has to say about the movie Crazy Rich Asians, in Singapore context.
My perspective as a Singaporean is …
“Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.” – Tim Blake Nelson
We all, everyone of us, live in our own bubbles and of our own making. – Reubeno_Wise
I want to conclude by including an extract of Effel 65-Living in a Bubble
The bubble’s not reality, but it’s inside your mind
And makin’ you forget where you’re from and what’s behind
Isn’t it suspicious how the world is now your friend
And gettin’ in return one thousand more than whatever you could ever send?
The bubble doesn’t make you, but it’s you that’s made the bubble
And you better try to remember that it’s in your head
The bubble is a very tricky thing, all full of hype, and it’s not easy to try to see
The way that things are and they’ll always be
I’m starting a Mastermind Group, with the aim of members achieving Zest For Life through the guiding motto of “Heaven On Earth”.
If interested to join the group, please drop me a line to reubeno@zestinlife.com, stating your aim and how the Mastermind Group can help you to achieve your fulfilling life goals.
Thank you for dropping by.
Reuben Ong
#Singapore Is Our Home