"ABCD" is a wonderful addition to the genre of small movies about young people grappling with their ethnic identity (like the gem "Double Happiness").
Here are well-educated, suburban-raised, South Asian Indian Americans (or American Born Confused Desis) trying to figure out their relationships.
In the best movie adult sibling representation since "You Can Count On Me" as the anchor, "ABCD" is bittersweet, unstereotyped, and unpredictable as the two sort out their loves and their relationship to their mother and her traditional culture vs. their work and outside social lives, white and Indian. There is certainly no clear Happy Ever After with the choices they make.
As a very low budget indie, the movie has some technical problems with the sound, but the acting is very natural.
(originally written 12/8/2001)
Here are well-educated, suburban-raised, South Asian Indian Americans (or American Born Confused Desis) trying to figure out their relationships.
In the best movie adult sibling representation since "You Can Count On Me" as the anchor, "ABCD" is bittersweet, unstereotyped, and unpredictable as the two sort out their loves and their relationship to their mother and her traditional culture vs. their work and outside social lives, white and Indian. There is certainly no clear Happy Ever After with the choices they make.
As a very low budget indie, the movie has some technical problems with the sound, but the acting is very natural.
(originally written 12/8/2001)