Didi
Messy, but good-messy like real life, Didi is the coming-of-ager working most of the angles in an attempt not to do the “arcs” of this sort of thing, and mostly succeeding. The other thing it’s doing is successful too, maybe even more so – depicting that dewy moment in the early 2000s when social media was still fresh and new and offered a vista of exciting possibilities, exactly like this film’s subject, a kid on the cusp of the rest of his life. “Didi” is Mandarin for younger brother, and refers to Chris Wang, Wang Wang to his friends, an American Asian growing up in suburban Everywheresville with an absent dad, a typically … Read more