Better Luck Tomorrow

I found this movie to be very interesting, how Ben went from being someone who was kind of low key, and sort of a loser to being part of what was pretty much a gang. Some other aspects of the film that tied into previous class dissuasions was the whole idea of getting beat with a baseball bat, and I dint make the comparison with Vincent Chin in till Professor Middleton brought it up. I guess I dint see it because it was a Asian beating an other Asian. Another I found interesting was the part when Derek wrote the article about how Ben was the “token Asian” on the basketball team. In the Article he wrote about the only reason that Ben was on the team was because he was Asian. This demonstrated how when you only look at someone only within a racial context it can cover up the person behind the race. This Article was the steeping stone in Derek’s plan to loop Ben into his gang. Derek used Asian identity to convince Ben and his friends to get involved in what looked like mafia activity. I found it weird that when Ben said he was done with the group that Derek said he was done with the group, but it was just a way of getting Ben back into the same activities as he was doing before . It was also interesting at the beginning how Ben said that because he was Asian and that he got good grades that no one would suspect him of bad behaviors. Even when they got into that fight at the party they never got in trouble for it.

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