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The Film Thread
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Hi everyone!
I thought, as we have a music thread that we should have a film thread also. I thought that perhaps we could put down TCK films or just films that we have enjoyed and perhaps add some quotes as well?
I’ll start: I just saw The Kite Runner. It is a film of two boys Amir and Hassan in Afghanistan prior to the Russian invasion of the 70s. Hassan is the son of the servants and a Hazara. The two grow up like brothers until Amir and his father flee to America.
Years later, he hears that Hassan is dead and thatHassan has asked him to go and collect his son from Afghanistan and to keep him safe.
Several points that i found interesting were:
- Amir is, essentially a TCK and i liked that he remarks upon returning to Afghanistan:
“I feel like a tourist in my own country.” To which his driver replies; “You always were, you just never realised it then.”
- The son answers in English in America to his father even though the father speaks to him in his native tongue.
- Only occasionally does Amir answer his father in his native tongue and it is slow in coming as if he has partially forgotten.
- The father at times speaks in English to Amir.
I liked how the film makers have done that — someone who is not bi-lingual or has never lived in a country where the language spoken there is not their native one does not understand the consequences of language loss or acquisition of their children.
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January 2nd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I remember seeing the book in the library before but never read it.
I don’t think this is very TCKish but “The Joy Luck Club” was a great movie about “culture shock”. I never read the book though. The kids grew up to be very different from their parents, there was a culture clash between the generations.
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January 2nd, 2008 at 9:09 pm
That’s with Nicole Kidman right?
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January 20th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Ok my favourite films.
AI by Stephen Speelberg.
About the creation of a robot boy and his trying to fit into a human culture. Very much a TCK theme to this one.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/
Empire of the Sun also by Stephen Speelberg.
About another TCK caught in the second world war in China. Another strong TCK theme to this one
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092965/
For some reason i got hooked on Pirates of Penzance.
Perhaps because the main character is trying to change his culture.
Paul T
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January 29th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
A new film in production by ThirdCat Productions.
On July 13th 2007, five students traveled to South Korea to document a life changing venture. “Going Home” will be a vehicle for exploration of the story of one transracial adoptee, his lifestyle and his journey to discover his birth parents. This endeavor is in affiliation with Emerson College as an entirely student-run Bachelor of Fine Arts Project.
From the website:
We learn a new love, a new laugh, and a new cry as we uncover ourselves with age. We might feel that this comes from our growth within- but we cannot deny that our surroundings and our culture plays a part.
A Third Culture Kid lifestyle embodies the adaptation of doubly dynamic surrounding cultures.
A Third Culture Kid grows up in an environment outside of their own parent’s native background. They discover the cultures they are exposed to, while not identifying with one in particular.
Their lifestyle touches upon facets of candid contradictions and interesting dichotomies. Similarly, transracial adoptees are exposed primarily to their adoptive parent’s culture and are unable to identify with their own genetic culture.
The documentary will explore the story of Jason Hoffmann, a transracial adoptee. Jason, an adoptee from South Korea, has been raised by a Jewish-American family in New York City’s Greenwich Village.
As a case study, Going Home will also explore the story of Mikyung Kim, an Adult Third Culture Kid. Although Mikyung is Korean, she was raised in Hong Kong where she attended a British elementary school, an American school, and finally college in Boston.
Going Home will put the spotlight on the social implications of discovering one’s own roots. Jason will immerse himself in the South Korean lifestyle and as he searches for his birth parents, we will see him journey into a new world physically, mentally, and emotionally.
For more check their site http://www.thirdcatproductions.com/
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July 27th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
For some strange reason Jason Hoffman reminds me of the actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt…
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July 29th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
To pick a mainstream movie, how about Mean Girls. Not a terribly good movie, but that’s a movie about a TCK trying to fit in, or rather at least the first 15min.
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July 29th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Yeah I heard Mean Girls was very TCK. Any other movies?
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July 30th, 2008 at 8:44 am
LOL the focus of mean girls is not reli TCK, more…on girls and their relationship with each other but um I thought tat movie was actually very insightful, definitely not just another teen movie. Very good.
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August 1st, 2008 at 9:36 am
“Seven Years in Tibet”
I’ve read the book too. It’s about a man living the tibetan culture just like a TCK would
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August 7th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Haha someone mentioned memento, and I’d immediately tie that to the TCK life b/c it’s a movie where every five minutes he forgets everything and has to figure out who he is, where he’s at, and what he’s doing. Hmmm, kinda like TCK life.
The movie Castaway really connected with me, on so many different levels, but the one scene that I remember the most is when he returns “home.” After the party he looks at all the leftover food and touches it slowly, recalling how he’d had to spear and catch his own food just a few weeks earlier.
Also, everyone’s best intentions to “bring him back to life.”
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