Stay True – Hua Hsu
*Spoilers
A reminiscence of
his college years at Berkeley University in the 90s, Hua Hsu, originally a Bay
Area hipster and now a staff writer for The New Yorker, presents us with
dualities: the pull of (sometimes obscure) American pop culture for immigrant
outsiders such as himself and his father, the pop culture itself, where it’s
difficult to discern if high culture or any culture, is really any better than
the low; and finally, his earnest, imperfect, complex personal growth, which he
is jolted from by the violent death of a close college buddy, Ken, from a
car-jacking. Ken, a popular frat guy with an Americanized name, showed him how
little a difference it made, if you were in a frat or not, if you were a cool
cat who could talk deconstructionism or not, as long as you could stay true, one
of the catch phrases of their friendship.
If you are
interested in the exploration of the interior life, personal growth, the lens
of pop culture, particularly the pop culture of the 90s.
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