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Every once in a while, a very special film comes around that expands the range of your sympathies and makes you feel a greater sense of oneness with your fellow man without in any way being emotionally manipulative or maudlin. In what has otherwise been a very weak year for movies, we have been blessed with three such films:
Sound of Metal, Nomadland, and now,
Minari.
Minari, nominated for six Oscars, including best picture (the winners will be announced between the writing and the publishing of this piece),
tells the story of Jacob (Steven Yeun) and Monica Yi (Yeri Han), a hard-pressed Korean couple who come to America in the 1980s in the hopes of escaping poverty and achieving their own version of the American dream. Jacob and Monica have a daughter, Anne (Noel Cho), and a young son, David (Alan Kim), who has a taste for Mountain Dew and a heart condition that adds to the family’s worries.
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Directors Chloé Zhao and Regina King on the making of their award-nominated films
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Eight standout films are up for the highly coveted best picture award at the 93rd Academy Awards this Sunday.
Director Chloé Zhao s drama Nomadland has dominated the category thus far during award season earning best film at the BAFTA Awards, best picture drama at the Golden Globes, best picture at the Critics Choice Awards and best film at the Producers Guild Awards.
As a child, I dreaded being assigned the “family tree” project. As the daughter of a first-generation Korean immigrant mother and a second-generation, half-Lebanese father, I wasn’t exactly set up for success. I would usually put the project off until the night before, then, in a panic, ask my parents for the names of their parents and their siblings, half of which I couldn’t spell, and with equal parts frustration and shame write a series of question marks for great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents.
My complex heritage, along with being part of a constantly relocating US military family, also made the common question, “Where are you from?” difficult to answer. At times, my family seemed to be from nowhere. I could easily believe we had sprung up from the ground, grown from scattered seeds.
CHENNAI: Minari is a kind of vegetable that grows in the East Asian wilds and is treasured for its medicinal properties and detoxifying effect. In the film directed by Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari” takes on a mysteriously providential sign, indicating that good things can come from the soil. We watch how the movie’s protagonist Jacob Yi (Steven Yeun) insists on a livelihood from
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