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I'm going to come to the point because I think my gut reactions are valuable. I wasn't crazy about the first, third, or fourth short films.
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The reason why the second film ["The Robot Fixer"] was a gem, and why it should be the kind of thing we should see more from Greg, is because not only was it wonderfully original in style, but because it held all the complexity of Asian American emotional truth. The second film made me "feel" in exactly the way that I associate with being Asian American. The way that a mother loves a boy who is so physically and emotionally distant. The mother's way of berating the little boy's stupidity in getting hit, as a way of expressing grief. The mother's need to keep "doing" as a way of dealing with the pain, and only breaking down
emotionally at one frail point, when she finds that she has the wrong robot arm. The emotion that I felt watching this film was exactly the way that I find my parents have taught me deal with emotion: not with too much sentimentality or indulgence or humanism - but always with reserve, always with the next step in mind - and this is what makes the sad parts of this film even sadder, this is what gives the film a kind of respect and humility in its own expression of something which is tragic.

"The Robot Fixer," with the combination of its great acting, its clever plot structure, and its emotional truth, makes me excited to see what will come of Greg Pak in his next works.

-- wbird