A problem with streaming is that lots of content is needed. To get that a certain formula has been developed: Teenagers, drugs or alcohol, sex, maybe some nudity, a wedding or funeral, some diversity, cars and guns. This film is almost unique among American films with no guns, but the rest is there. The film opens with a flash forward to a nude beach with plump middle-aged men and women showing their floppy tits and pubic hair. The point is that this may be a film with lots of teenage action but not really for teenagers.
In fact, this is a film about making decisions with limited information. The main characters are a Chinese American male with a 16-year-old half black daughter he is raising. We are told early that he has cancer in his brain that would require risky surgery to cure, a ballpark 20% estimate of success. Should he forego the surgery and have some quality time with his daughter? He chooses the latter, a car trip to try and find her mother. An important sidetrack is a visit to a casino where the father explains the principles of probabilistic decision making. But in this case he is missing several important pieces of information.
Unfortunately, the film is rather annoying with the daughter doubling as the narrator. But it is an original attempt at combining the formula elements in an interesting way.
In fact, this is a film about making decisions with limited information. The main characters are a Chinese American male with a 16-year-old half black daughter he is raising. We are told early that he has cancer in his brain that would require risky surgery to cure, a ballpark 20% estimate of success. Should he forego the surgery and have some quality time with his daughter? He chooses the latter, a car trip to try and find her mother. An important sidetrack is a visit to a casino where the father explains the principles of probabilistic decision making. But in this case he is missing several important pieces of information.
Unfortunately, the film is rather annoying with the daughter doubling as the narrator. But it is an original attempt at combining the formula elements in an interesting way.