Meeting You, Meeting Me
Meeting You, Meeting Me
Meeting You, Meeting Me: Lina Suh spent her childhood in Korea, in rural America, and in New York. It was there in New York and Los Angeles that she produced short motion pictures, and in Cambodia, she produced a short documentary for the World Bank that was aimed at developing countries. This woman was employed at the New- Yorkesque campus of the French film soil ESRA Ecole Superieure de Realisation Audiovisuelle.
After that, she worked on two short films entitled So F*cking Happy For You and Good Face which she later turned into a series in collaboration with Sony and HBO Max. Now she is generating copyright-bearing content with a focus on Korea.
She served as story editor for “DR. Brain” apple TV+’s first korean series, which she also edited. This is a debut feature from a writer/director who has previously made “Meeting You, Meeting Me” as a short.
Sav, a college dropout from California, discovers herself after being subjected to cancel culture. Therefore, she heads to the airport for an asian trip, although before doing so, she has to buy a cheap used backpack from a post created by Simone who is a Korean American divorce lawyer overwhelmed by the values of her immigrant family.
It is quite clear that Simone is in a sour mood and since Sav has lots of time to waste prior to her flight, Simone and Sav start conversing and later, Simone offers Sav to come to her place. Over food, alcohol and cbd the two get even closer and closer in a relationship until they start revealing some very sensitive issues.
In this, Lina Suh is quite methodical in the directing of this movie, just as one would specified in directing for the stage as all the action is confined mostly to two places one of them being Simone’s suburban residence where most of the action is set namely the action being the greater sense of the word.
It is not surprising “Meeting You, Meeting Me” does not go without dialogue and this is just where a weakness was relied upon to cowardly sink the film and so the writer and director Suh was not blissfully inventive.
Suh came out with some dialogue that was quite with good dramatic effect and emotion which contain effective persuasion, describing what Sav is doing, what kind of situations she is in rather than only expressing sympathy.
This is one of those cases where it is easy and satisfactory to describe the antithesis between the two women. Sav is a 20-something, quite social media and generally open and free of spirits, though also rather childish and a lot of fun and hippy spirit.A very different story is that of Simone who for the most part is brought up Asian or Asian America and doesn’t really find it easy to let loose.
I mean she is very quite, self has bombarded her with selection and does not socialize much on the web, add that it’s really comical because while Simone just got divorced Sav seems to be enjoying the best time of her life with a Latino boyfriend.
But just as Simone does not cope well with divorce due to psychological causes neither does her counterpart Savizabeth aka Sav due to social media as after getting bashed for saying very insensitively something online, she got canceled.
The way these characters connect with each other through their strengths and their weaknesses is probably the best aspect of this film in which the gradual development of their friendship is fun to see. Furthermore, it is somehow more interesting when there is some hierarchy between the two, in the first part Sav is the one who is controlling Simone, and the second part happens in reverse order which is even funnier.
As previously mentioned, one more ‘reversible’ and a distinctive feature of this antithesis, is that it enables Suh to touch upon the topics of other women’s features in the United States, especially when trying to differentiate between Americans and Americans with Asian backgrounds, while also demonstrating their similarities.
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- Genre: Drama
- Country: United States
- Director: Lina Suh
- Cast: Annika Foster, Sam Yim, Patrick Luwis
