Director: Alan Yang
Cast: Hong-Chi Lee , Tzi Ma , Christine Ko , Joan Chen , Yo-Hsing Fang , Kuei-Mei Yang , Fiona Fu , James Saito , Hayden Szeto , Cindera Che , Queenie Fang , Akio Chen , Kunjue Li
Plot: In this poignant multi-generational drama, Pin-Jui (Hong-Chi Lee) is a free-spirited yet impoverished young Taiwanese factory worker, who makes the difficult decision to leave his homeland -- and the woman he loves -- behind in order to seek better opportunities in America. But years of monotonous work and an arranged marriage devoid of love or compassion leave an older Pin-Jui (Tzi Ma) a shadow of his former self. Unable to sympathize with his daughter Angela (Christine Ko) and at risk of living out his retirement in solitude, Pin-Jui must reconnect with his past in order to finally build the life he once dreamed of having.
My Movie Review: The movie is half-wit melodramatic the flashback's better than it's present:( Tigertail, a new Netflix drama from first-time director Alan Yang about the immigrant experience of a struggling Taiwanese-American family moving drama but a muddied father-daughter story! Yang’s unfussy direction jumps back and forth effortlessly between four different time periods, sparking waves of nostalgia as it weaves a tangle of repressed family ties with assured clarity:) This multi-generational drama follows a Taiwanese factory worker who leaves his homeland to seek opportunity in the US, where he struggles to find connection while balancing family and newfound responsibilities I've find it a little boring when the old man's around and perhaps underdeveloped commentary on immigration my advice to keep it interesting I wish they added more youthful takes once he arrived in America' so that more compelling and mostly appealing! What seems fine doesn't mean its good it takes a skilled artist to get an audience to truly see those shadows looming on the cave wall of one's growing up. Bluntly put Yang's not there yet:0
Critics Consensus: Uneven yet revealing, Tigertail offers a well-acted -- and ultimately valuable -- look at the immigrant experience in America. The film feels like a three-hour epic that's been slashed to 91 minutes, with crucial details reduced to crude bullet points for economy's sake. It isn't intimate, it's small. Yang's script is thoughtful and precise -- every character gets to be three-dimensional. Alan Yang has given us one immigrant's story that feels like his dad's unique, deeply felt experience, but also makes it reverberate like it's his own - and ours. The lack of dimensionality given to the daughter's story weakens the potential impact of Tigertail. Yang's eye for beauty and composition sometimes gets in the way - poverty in Taiwan is more picturesque than painful, and New York's grime is also given a romantic sheen - but he makes a convincing case for everyone to forgive his or her bottled-up dad. Its a very quiet, moving, and poignant intergenerational family saga with some lovely directorial flourishes. Alan Yang's Tigertail finds rich beauty in a sea of regret and perhaps still well acted:)
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