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Never Perfect (2007)

Name: Never Perfect
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1970-01-01T01:00:00+01:00
Cast: Mai-Anh Tran

Documentary | 64 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 64 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Regina Park

Stars: Mai-Anh Tran

IMDb score: 8,3 (14)

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Never Perfect plot

In this confrontational documentary, Korean-American filmmaker Regina Park follows a young Vietnamese woman who has her eyelids corrected to start a new life. What do you do if you live in an American suburb and you are 27 years old? Then you end up in a 'quarter-life crisis', says the Vietnamese-American protagonist Mai-Anh. The solution: an eyelid correction under the motto 'new location, new lifestyle, new look'. Park follows Mai-Anh in the weeks leading up to her surgery, which she has planned just before moving from a drab American suburb to exciting Los Angeles. In this way Park portrays the tension between the Asian ideal of beauty - just like whites a double eyelid - and finding one's own identity as an Asian-American immigrant daughter.