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1. I was amazed to find my local theater filled for the Weds. matinee

Reply to lunasun (Original post)

Thu Aug 23, 2018, 09:19 AM

Aug 2018

And I live in a small town in Maine where almost everyone is white. This film has really crossed the cultural divide.

I'm sure a lot of the cultural references go right over the heads of white audiences, but in case anyone's wondering about what was actually going on in that mahjong scene, there is a LOT happening and you have to understand mahjong to understand the symbolism of the various tiles the two women held. A very detailed explanation can be found here:

http://blog.angryasianman.com/2018/08/what-was-really-happening-in-crazy-rich.html

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I was amazed to find my local theater filled for the Weds. matinee mainer Aug 2018 #1

Thanks ! lunasun Aug 2018 #2