Movie Review of Crazy Rich Asians

 Crazy Rich Asians is a 2018 American romantic comedy film.

I watched this movie on board my first business flight to Vietnam, when I worked in Malaysia.

As I couldn’t catch each line of the drama, I didn’t understand the details of the story, but I understand it now because I watched it with Japanese subtitles yesterday.


The drama starts with the meaningful words of Napoleon Bonaparte, “Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” 


In 1995, London, an Asian lady who looked to be rich and proud came to an authentic hotel with her family, and said to a clerk that she had a reservation for their suite room, but a hotel employee refused their staying.

As she had called to her husband, the owner of this hotel came out from the elevator and invited them to the suite room, and he told his staff that he had sold this hotel to her family who were plutocrats in Singapore.

The hotel men, who were white people, were surprised and embarrassed.


After about two decades, her son, Nick, became an adult, and fell in love with a Chinese-American woman, Rachel Chu in New York.




He invited her to Singapore to see his family, and they would like to participate in the wedding ceremony of his best friend.

However Rachel suffered many kinds of harassment there, because people around them, especially Nick's mother, opposed their relationship due to her nationality and the gap of status.     

Though Rachel had decided to leave Nick, lastly they were engaged with the blessing of their family.


The story of this movie is very simple and understandable, and the party scenes in Singapore were gorgeous, amazing and just suitable for the title “crazy rich”.

I wonder if the theme of this drama was concerned with the words of Napoleon, which were shown at the beginning of the movie, or not.


Commentaries say it is so rare for Hollywood to produce a movie with an all-Asian cast.

That’s because authorized people had believed that movies that casted mainly white people would be marketable. 

However this movie overturned the myth, and empowered Asian performers around the world.


I was also surprised this movie was successful in China, which is controlled by the communist party, even though “Crazy Rich Asians” is applauding capitalism.



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