''Crazy Rich Asians' is the first time I've seen my specific conflict taken seriously, treated with the existential gravity that pinned me to my bed most mornings.' THR's therebeccasun explains how CrazyRichAsians mirrored her own trip to the altar
is no exception. Rachel Chu and Nick Young are in love, but Nick's mother, Eleanor , does not approve. It's a classic trope: Boy loves girl, parents forbid it, the end.
"I'm Rachel," Mike quietly said to me after we saw the movie for the first time, at an early screening in April 2018, a month after he proposed to me. Unlike me, he hadn't read Kevin Kwan's novel and was blindsided by the triggering parallels to our own story. At each viewing, every time Eleanor corners Rachel on the stairs of Tyersall Park and delivers the devastating line, "You will never be enough," the muscles in his arm would tense.
My mother is Kerry and I am Rachel when we lie side by side in bed, our tears eventually dissolving into laughter. Mike is Nick and I am Rachel when, in gaze, word and touch, he makes me feel like the leading lady in a Hollywood romance. Mike's proposal to me was heartfelt, personal and romantic . He had arranged for friends to film the whole thing, and it looks picture-perfect — one knee, Getty terrace, surprised tears. Happily ever after. But when we watcheda month later, and I saw Nick get down in economy class and propose to Rachel a second time, I sobbed. As soon as I saw Eleanor's ring in the box that Nick presented — finally, a sign of his mother's consent — I realized my truth..
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