Why this is capturing audiences? I don't know. It won the Sundance award for the best script. Come to find out that when they started shooting the documentary, nothing was scripted. They did, however, have a 5 page outline/treatment. Oh, if only all scripts could be shot by having nothing but a treatment.
I'm not trying to diss the film. Charlyne Yi is charming and funny, but sometimes she laughs too much (was she thinking "laugh and the whole world laughs with you"?). It did seem the audience was laughing way more than me. What was I missing?
So there is the documentary format for half of the film (the fact that a documentary gets an award for best script is disturbing!). And then there is the Michael Cera narrative that is script, or obviously would have been before there w... |
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