"Tigertail": Movie Review
Across three generations, "Tigertail" illustrates the problematic immigrant expectations of America, while revealing the everlasting pain and significance of love lost. Even with its potent imagery and filming, director/writer Alan Yang fails to capture the critical nature of its contents.
Tzi Ma is consistently wonderful, but his morbid characterization plateaus all too early to care. His relationship with his distant daughter is baffling and the conclusion to the story gives no answers to his harsh frame of mind. This pesty issue never is able to course correct and strips away its higher significance.
There is a reliable, palpable love put into "Tigertail", but Yang's lofty ambitions do not translate well onto these characters. While more voices like this need to be heard, this is an unsuccessful attempt for Yang's first feature film.
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