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Bulldog
USA 2016
produced by Mo Hussain, Stephanie Pumilia, Alex Lin, Benjamin Tran, Minh Tran (executive), Pam Tran (executive)
directed by Benjamin Tran
starring Vin Kridakorn, Cherry Fu, Michael Song, Tong Lung, Timothy J. Cox, Justin Chan, Alex Suh, Kar Logan, Javon Jones, Johnny Lee Sanchez, Daniel Tunas, Hunter Wolfsan
written by Benjamin Tran
short
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Caught between a gambling mother (Cherry Fu) who's too busy losing all
their money to look after him, a father (Tong Lung) who has long lost the
family, and a deceased brother he knows he'll never live up to, Sean (Vin
Kridakorn) starts at a new school - but that new school has little to
offer other than some thugs fighting it out among one another, plenty of
drugs to keep everyone happy, and ethnic clashes in the hallways. And it
only takes Sean a single day to be suspended by the principal (Timothy J.
Cox), upon which his father, who's never even there other than when Sean
pays him a visit for a scolding after another suspension, tries to wash
his hands of the whole thing ... A rather empathetic portrayal
of who on the outside might be considered as a thug, but who's a deeply
torn individual inside, a guy with no roots in his country,
disenfranchised and alienated by everybody but other thugs, thrown into a
school that's more part of the problem than the solution - but what makes
this movie work is that it doesn't try to offer any simple solutions to
complex problems: It handles its topic subtly and with sympathy but
without judging, and gets one to think in the process. A very
interesting short, actually!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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