He tells her he’s planning to visit the city.
Given this situation, I knew at least one person would be very upset by the end of the movie.
For most of the film, I felt like that person was going to be me.
On the one hand, as a Korean woman, I really wanted Nora to pick the Korean guy.
The maddening corollary to the white savior trope is that the Asian guy never gets the girl.
Persons:
Oppenheimer, Oscar, Nora, Arthur, Hae Sung, “, I’d, Anna May, ”, Chow, Mira
Locations:
Korean American, Korean, New York, South Korea