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Better Luck Tomorrow
2003 · Film · 101 min
Directed by Justin Lin
A group of over-achieving Asian-American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extra-curricular criminal activities.
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What comes to mind is the stories about "parachute kids" with (relatively) wealthy parents that sent the kid abroad, ostensibly for study. They end up in an extreme form of latchkey existence - still Eastern in intent, but living largely alone and with few obligations, they tend to be adrift at a much earlier stage of life, leading to occasional news stories about crimes that earn prison time, or of "little emperors and empresses" that have been spoiled and have difficulty adjusting to interaction with the rest of the world.
The film "Better Luck Tomorrow" explored this - not specifically the parachute kid status, but the trouble that overprivileged Asian teens get into. It's fictionalized but also based on some real events.
Oddly enough only today I was watching this movie "better luck tomorrow" in which there was this dialogue that is quite relevant as to why the author feels that way:
http://pastebin.com/KnVgnjM3
(posted as a link since the text is kind of long)
Scrolling actually does what you think it would do. Yeah, that's really nice. I like it a lot. Thanks for the link, hadn't heard about Seadragon before. I was also alluding to the fact that you can't text search the visualization for movies ie "New York, NY" ~ "Better Luck Tomorrow", both points on an image. Maybe easier said than done, but the whole point of the visualization is to give people a better understanding of the information.