Wuki Watches Wonderful Films

 Stand up isn't a field that I am particular involved in, so seeing a stand up routine got me excited.  I feel as if I must be the worst fan of stand up because I feel like half the jokes fly over my head because I may not be paying attention or I just miss the joke.  The only real standup experience I have really only comes from big names like John Mulaney.  With this in mind, I wasn't the biggest fan of PsyCHO, and I am unsure if that opinion comes from the humor or just my lack of engagement in the stand up world.   Despite not being a fan of the whole show, the comedy was defiantly unique to Cho and she really made the routine feel personal.  I think this stand up has a place with multiple people, I guess I just didn't find a lot of humor in the some of the type of jokes.  I have seen a stand up routine of Ali Wong, and the difference between these two stand and the humor stands out for me.  I think that the readings for class and the discussions we had actually helped

Although I was not a particularly huge fan of the film, "Better Luck Tomorrow" is a breakthrough film for Asian American film directed by future Fast and Furious director Justin Lin.  The movie does a great job in achieving its goal of braking certain stereotypes that exist in mainstream media like Hollywood, but some things that the movie is trying to parody left me confused.  I don't think the movie in itself was bad, its actually a good film, but this one wasn't for me.  Maybe this is because I have seen so many movies of a similar genre lately, but I digress Continuing on what I said earlier in the introduction of this blog, the movie the parodying the teen movie genre and also being a standalone film for mainstream cinema.  The biggest break in stereotype of this movie is just simply how the main characters are portrayed.  Margaret Hillenbrand breaks down this intention in her reading Of Myths and Men: Better Luck Tomorrow and the Mainstreaming of Asian America C

 "A.K.A. Don Bonus" was an extremely interesting film to watch.  Through out various film classes and just watching films for fun in my own free time, I can safely say that I have not seen a documentary film quite like this one before.  The way Don interacts with the camera is very unique, and this type of film is something that you can not expect in a Hollywood documentary.  The vlogging of Don's life feels very unfiltered and natural, bringing the audience along for the ride. There is a couple of scenes that really stand out to me in this film, particularly the string of scenes around the courthouse.  The camera is obviously not meant to be here and Don knows this, but he brings it anyways, allowing us to hear what is going on.  Through out now only this scene but the movie as a whole, I was constantly thinking about Don's motive for addressing the audience the way he does.  He is very clear on his attempts to show his life, and his narration is supposed to explain

Hello! My name is Davis Wukovits, and I am a Sophomore and currently living on campus.  I come to Lawrence all the way from my current home state of South Carolina because I love the cold weather and the Midwest in general.  Aside for South Carolina, I have also lived in Georgia and California, which is where I was born.  Although far from home, I feel at home here at Lawrence, and I am glad to be back on campus for another wonderful term.  I am an intended film major at Lawrence and a history minor. My two biggest hobbies are film and swimming.  I have been swimming for a large majority of my life, but only have been swimming at a serious competitive level for a short time.  I am also a member of the Lawrence University Swimming and Diving team.  My film passion developed mostly in High School, but have been evolving rapidly in college.  I took a class in high School about media production, where I helped produce multiple award winning journalism pieces for our school's broadcast