And you call this a review? Glad that at least someone enjoyed experiencing numbness for a while (most of us were alienated), but where's your plot summary, analysis of theme and story, remarks on directing style, score, or photography, brother?Look, Hulu is full of crappy flicks like that. I don't let some nomination at some obscure festival fool me. There's a reason why we never heard of them and we get them for free. Can't be too picky and they can kill time, but let's not call them masterpieces... The fact that one element resonated with you is great, and you should mention it, but this is not to be confused with the piece being any good.Then who wants to see 'reality'? I wouldn't want to watch a movie of what I did today, especially filmed like a talentless documentary, and I'm a little more colorful than this poor sap, lemme tell you (I'm a bodyguard for a celebrity and am typing from his estate).
The protagonist is socially inept and uninteresting. This may be how many gamers are (no offense), but... why make a movie about gamers, then? It's like watching paint dry, and I don't confuse a slow pace for anything - sometimes it can serve the story and enhance the experience, but in this case there is none (story or experience).So this movie is probably realistic, I'll give you that. But a two hour clip of a couple of insects milling around with no sound or music would be too. That's no cinema, my man. The "it's just like real life" argument is empty. This flick has nothing to say, unless the point is the one you made about Asian girls. And it makes it with the same modern-day, illiterate lack of eloquence as its text-style title R U There.I didn't appreciate your last comment, by the way, seeing as my girl is Korean and I happen to know a lot of Asians from all over (Japan, Korea, Phillippines, Thailand). Thirld world people can be desperate, and desperate people do desperate things. They want food and money for them and their families (monsters!). On the other hand, THEY happen to view westerners as sick and disgusting. Because what we want from them is usually sex, a sex that we are often unable to get at home and want on the cheap, like this film's loser.
Now since we're into stereotypes... It's often believed that white guys drawn to Asian girls are either nerds who can't get laid, doormats tired of being walked over by western women, or abusive bastards with pedophilic tendencies. Well, that guy fits the first two. And I see it ALL THE TIME.

That's a constant problem in indie movies: in their search for truth about the human condition (and, frankly, because of a lack of budget), they can focus on very small slices of daily life and use non-actors for 'realism'. Well, unless director and writer are exceptional, the result is often less interesting than a documentary. If art is not the representation of a beautiful thing, but the beautiful representation of a thing... what is the flat representation of a boring thing? This movie.

I agree with your review. I thought that a gamer might somehow be able to relate, but you show that this movie has no appeal whatsoever. As for the girl's smile, I think she kept him around out of her own boredom and because he was a 'walking ATM', so she threw him a bone to kinda keep him interested in their icy non-romance.