Film Review: The Half of It
Copyright © 2020 Netflix US, LLC. Égalité: Pride Month 2020 is our series commemorating or criticizing pop culture that relates directly to the LGBTQIA+ movement. Done in a non-chronological order, it will span films, music, and even historical events to show a concrete picture of the evolution of the movement from Stonewall onward. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To start off the week, we're commemorating the more recent attempts to pin down the emotional turmoil a child in the LGBTQIA+ spectrum would have. The Half of It is a 2020 LGBT romance film written and directed by Alice Wu--her second feature film. Previously, she had made waves with her 2004 film Saving Face , an exploration of the realities of being lesbian and Asian-American that tackles it with the qualities of a great romantic comedy: smart enough to ground the characters' problems and take it seriously, but light enough tonally to be easily rewatc...