Something that I quickly noticed watching this weeks #BCM320 film, Furie, was how easy I found it to become fully immersed and invested into a story that I had little cultural connection to. Having never travelled to Vietnam or engaged in any type of Vietnamese content before, I was surprised by my experience during this movie. I felt a sense of familiarity with Hai’s story not necessarily because it related to me culturally but because of how it was presented.
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One of the reasons I believe I found this film so accessible was because of its genre as an action movie along with the simple plot. The film has the typical Hollywood style (possibly because it’s a Netflix original) with engaging/well crafted martial arts scenes, and a basic conflict and resolution based story structure. I personally related Furie to other popular films I have seen in my lifetime…
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