#2000s romcom

13 Going on 30

The Devil Wears Prada

Brown Sugar

Years ago, I watched a crappy version of Saving Face (2004) on a shady website because it wasn’t available on any streaming service or physical medium. Today I sobbed on a Tuesday evening as I watched it in the theater. I never thought I would get to experience this. As a fellow Asian woman with a mom that royally fucked up in her own love life, making her all the more desperate to seek redemption by raising me to be the perfect daughter (while I go behind her back to be with my girlfriend)—there is perhaps no other movie that encapsulates my life more. A tall masc Asian girl glanced at me and held the theater door open on the way in (lesbian chivalry is never dead) and on the way out a breathless desi mom said her fourteen year old daughter was the one who had wanted to come watch this, she hadn’t expected the intimate scenes! It’s the small things in life. I only wish my girlfriend could come with me, but I’ll hope for a next time. Can’t wait to buy it in DVD. Thank the stars for Alice Wu.

This was the very first page

Not where the story line ends

My thoughts will echo your name

Until I see you again

These are the words I held back

As I was leaving too soon

I was enchanted to meet you