I don't know what it means for a movie to be sexist, but the film chronicles social outcasts gaining power and riches and the "male fantasy" fulfillment that they engage didn't seem surprising or out of place to me.
I don't have much of a response to the core thrust of your post. She was portrayed as a crazy, paranoid and power hungry. As far as I am concerned, her ethnicity was not central to her character. The movie never seemed to suggest that her behavior was related to her Asian-ness. Not being acquainted with the prevailing Asian-American female stereotypes, I'm in no position to judge whether this was inspired by them, but if it was, the movie did a poor job of propagating them.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2010-10-11 11:50 pm (UTC)I don't have much of a response to the core thrust of your post. She was portrayed as a crazy, paranoid and power hungry. As far as I am concerned, her ethnicity was not central to her character. The movie never seemed to suggest that her behavior was related to her Asian-ness. Not being acquainted with the prevailing Asian-American female stereotypes, I'm in no position to judge whether this was inspired by them, but if it was, the movie did a poor job of propagating them.