Baby

Tale of an Asian American gangbanger sells its ethnic angle short

In theory, a film about Asian American youth violence would seem like a unique, if not quite mandatory, niche filler. But "Baby," a tragic tale of an essentially decent East L.A. kid who falls into thug life, is an uneasy mix of bloodshed and sentimentality that rarely digs beneath the surface of gang mentality, much less its specific place within Asian American culture. Trappings aside, the story feels ethnically interchangeable, relying more on routine movie criminal philosophies ("We gotta do what we gotta do!") than on mining distinctive territory. [...]

di Gary Goldstein, articolo completo (1683 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 26 febbraio 2009