white cis male film studies major who probably watches cinemasins: so you’re telling me you actually liked that movie??? you actually had a good time watching that piece of garbage???
me: yeah you see i have this rare medical condition called Occasionally I Enjoy Things,
this song makes me feel like I’m having a series of flashbacks in some smokey room lying buck naked in a completely disheveled bed, smoking a cigarette, while a gun and the dead body of my mobster italian boyfriend lays sprawled out on the floor
“This is the big reveal that’s mirrored in the game of mahjong. Rachel draws a tile in mahjong. It’s a set-building game; it’s very much like poker, so you can draw a card that gives you the win. So Rachel draws the win, but instead of winning, she lets Eleanor have [the winning tile], and so that mirrors the dialogue because what she tells Eleanor in that moment is, ‘Your son has proposed to me, but because I don’t want him to lose his relationship with his mother, I am going to say no and in the future, when he marries someone you think is appropriate, you’re going to remember that that’s because of me.” ~ Bourree Lam, journalist
