Wuki Watches Wonderful Films

 Documentaries has always been something that interests me.  I feel like there are lots of ways to conduct documentaries and so many topics to explore, that it can be a fun and every educational experience.  Often times though, I feel like documentaries can be very difficult to nail.  In the case of the Asian Americans Documentary for class, the biggest problem here is the time allowed for the series. The five hours of this series just does not seem like enough for a documentary covering Asian American history.  The titles strongly implies that this is a series discussing the vast history of the culture, but it just doesn't seem to have hit the target.  I can't speak beyond the two episodes we were assigned for class, but it seem to only focus on a few things, specifically only Japanese and Chinese Americans, which leaves out so much history and stories.   I want to attempt draw comparison from this documentary to a different documentary.  I ...

 Last term I took FIST 402 and K-Pop was something that if I remember correctly we lightly touched on, so I am glad we got to spend more time on it this week.  I am honestly not sure what my opinions are of K-Pop.  I think that all songs that I have listened to are catchy, but it isn't really something I am interested in.  I know many people that are interested in the genre, and I can understand the appeal, but it just maybe isn't for me.  I am by no means saying it is terrible, I do think it is good, I'm just not the audience for it.   I feel like every single year K-pop along with other mediums of entertainment have only gotten more popular.  K-pop as evolved so much that I find it interesting to compare a boy band like One Direction to that of BTS.  I think the mass popularity of K-pop is said best in Yoon's article when he says, “Media studies scholars have recently defined the phenomenal rise of K-pop as ‘a way to counter the t...

 PEN15 was easily the most cringe piece of media I have seen all term.  This is, however, not the fault of the show.  When watching a show about people developing in middle school, you can't help but think back to your own middle school experience.  Middle school in general is just a pretty horrible awkward time for most people, I can't think of a person I know who genuinely enjoyed middle school.  I for one absolutely can't stand thinking about my experience at that age.  But that is simply just middle school, and that age is just a supremely awkward time.  Nonetheless, PEN15 does a decent job of exploring just how award and rough middle school can be.   The show did a number of things especially well.  One thing that I enjoyed was the use of music throughout the show.  I thought the music added an extra layer of comedy that helped the show.  I also thought the relationship between Maya and her family, or more specifically May...

 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 th...

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 Asia...

 "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 supp...

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...