Tie A Yellow Ribbon
The sister and I used our free film festival ticket last night. I got home a little earlier than usual and really wanted to get out of the house. We had these free tickets from volunteering to be in the trailer. The festival only runs through this weekend, and we didn’t really have any other opportunities later in the week to use the tickets. A quick flip through the program guide, and we had picked our movie – Tie A Yellow Ribbon.
Despite being sold out, there were a few extra “rush” tickets that we were so lucky to get a hold of. Since the movie was at 9:30 and we’d picked up our tickets at around 7, we ended up killing some time getting desserts. Got back to the theater at 8:30, and we were first in line! Grabbed FANTASTIC seats and enjoyed the movie. Loved the performances and the various story lines – very interesting…
Read for yourself. Here is a synopsis from the film’s website:
In the feature-length narrative film TIE A YELLOW RIBBON, Jenny Mason, a Korean adoptee and aspiring photographer, walks the streets of New York in a state of resigned indifference. Her days are spent with white friends and colleagues, her nights with white men. She has no contact with her Midwestern family due to a childhood indiscretion with her white brother, Joe. She rejects any attachment, dumping men as fast as she can pick them up. Yet she longs for a connection that would make her feel at home — a home that she has lost and is forever seeking.
One day, her roommate asks her to move out, fanning her fears of abandonment. But as one door closes, another opens. She moves in with the beautiful but troubled Beatrice Shimizu and meets super-cool Simon Chang, whose sister, Sandy, lives next door. Together they open a whole new world for Jenny, an Asian-American existence that she has never explored. Her indifference toward life starts melting away, as she embraces Bea, who battles her own self-esteem issues with family and a philandering boyfriend, Phillip. Bea and Simon encourage and help jumpstart Jenny’s career in photography.
Suddenly, Joe appears at her door, stirring up long lost feelings that she has tried to bury. As Jenny searches for a voice and photographic style that she can call her own, she finds that she must face her unresolved feelings toward her brother and family, and ultimately reconcile her identity as an Asian-American.
Making her feature debut, writer-director Joy Dietrich, also a Korean adoptee, introduces audiences to the world of Asian-American young women and delicately addresses the abnormally high rates of depression and suicide among Asian-American girls, creating a work great compassion and poetic beauty.
See it if you ever have the chance to. I’m very glad that I finally remembered to catch some of the film festival screenings this year!
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