Saving Face is not just a romantic comedy. It is a historical document of early 2000s immigrant queer life. Bad subtitles erase specificity. They turn a distinctly Chinese-American story into a generic one. Good subtitles, "better" subtitles, restore the film’s soul.
didn't start as a filmmaker; she was a computer scientist at Microsoft who wrote the script "on a whim" in a screenwriting class saving face 2004 english subtitles better