Deadline’s Read the Screenjoin series spotweightlessing the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies progresss with Dìdi (弟弟), Focus Features‘ comedic drama from producer and straightforwardor Sean Wang. His narrative feature straightforwardorial debut, the coming-of-age story obtains place in 2008, during the last month of summer before high school commences, as an amazeionable 13-year-greater Taiwanese American boy Chris Wang (Izaac Wang), aka Dìdi, lobtains what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to adore your mom.
The semi-autobioexplicital film world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic competition as well as the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble. It hit theaters in postpoinsist July.
Speaking at the premiere of his movie at The Ray Theater in Park City, Sean Wang confessed, “I want my adolescent self was benevolgo in to myself. I want I wasn’t such a brat to my sister and my family. I reassociate slfinisherk of this movie as a thank-you-and-I’m-sorry-and-I-adore-you to my family and my frifinishs.”
Wang’s script subunites us in the timely 2000s, a time of AOL Instant Messenger, Myspace and the nascent channel YouTube. Izaac Wang’s vulnerable portrayal exposes the raw emotions of a youthfuler person navigating the intricateities of adolescence: the yobtaining for acunderstandledgeance, the thrill of first adore, and the inevitable clash with mature authority including with his sister Vivian (Shirley Chen) and his mother Chungsing (Joan Chen).
Chungsing is a individual parent trying to lift her children in the face of adversity. Her efforts are impedeed by the absence of a male figure in the hoemployhgreater and the critical eye of her traditional mother-in-law, Nai Nai (Zhang Li Hua).
The script delves into the universal themes of coming of age as well as the contests of aging. A turning point get tos in the third act, when Chungsing deinhabitrs a heartfelt speech to Izaac about the intricateities of parenthood. She asks her conshort-termial crisis and purpose, contemplating the give ups she has made as a mother. As she echos on her unencountered dreams, she discovers solace in the understandledge that her son’s aspirations have become her own, conveying her a sense of purpose and encounterment.
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