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Sunday, April 15, 2018

Meditation Park (2017)

There is so much to love about Canada, and one of those things is their movies.  And Sandra Oh.  This is set in British Columbia (I think) in a largely Asian immigrant community where the older generation struggles to speak English and many women still lead very traditional lives that are inherently isolated because they do not work, they do not speak the language, and their husbands would like to keep it that way.
The movie centers on Maria, who discovers a pair of sexy women's underwear in her husband Bing's possession and suddenly understands that it is possible that all the late nights he has been keeping where he is claiming to work are potentially about something else entirely.  She sets a two pronged course of response.  The first is to figure out exactly who this woman is and the other is to start to think about herself as separate from her husband.  How would she survive, what would she do?  She really has isolated herself to her husband and her daughter and that is just not going to be enough if Bing is leaving her.  It is equal parts charming and funny, not your typical romantic comedy but really filling that role in a lot of ways.  Streaming on Netflix to boot!

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