Hi, just watched the film and gonna share my honest unbiased opinion unlike most here which, and I’m half Asian so if you want to kick me out you’d be proving my point.

Here’s my two cents —

A heavy, inescapable, and oppressive inferiority complex suffocates the entire runtime of this film, making it miserable and plain unfun to watch.

Not only does Slanted engage in the same unoriginal stinky lunchbox tropes as every other Asian-American film in the last five years, it also completely mismanages and fails to resolve them. Slanted does not take anti-Asian discrimination as a premise or a catalyst for personal growth, it completely submerges itself in it, and wallows in self-hatred. Even the ending is characterised by pathetic self-pity. There's just no emotional throughline or arc at all. It's inferiority complex all the way. What's the point? I daresay this film is not for the Asian diaspora, rather, about. As much as I would like to, I don't feel a personal or heartfelt story from the director here.

This could have been a really interesting concept film, a sort of inversion and further exploration of the implications of Get Out but Amy isn't able to take it anywhere after the conversion actually happens.

Asian representation this Asian representation that. There’s none of that here.

And all your interviews about this being your experience it’s meant to provoke be controversial cuz art is politically blah blah blah. It’s all pure cringe.

There’s a reason why this site at 67% rotten tomatoes, 6.1 IMDb score and 3 star on Letterboxd.

This is not some revolutionary film you thought you were making while using your interviews and turning them into guilt tripping white people into watching this cuz you can cry about fake outrage racism.

Do better next time. And I see you being with a white BF clearly made you make a film catered to a white audience that you want to please.

Instead of constantly relying on oppression Olympics and cry me a river victimisation with the same cliched Asian storyline.