{"id":30922,"date":"2014-02-17T12:10:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=30922"},"modified":"2014-02-17T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T20:10:41","slug":"chu-and-blossom-charles-chu-and-gavin-kelly-2014-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=30922","title":{"rendered":"Chu And Blossom (Charles Chu and Gavin Kelly, 2014): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Johanna Carlsson at Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2014.<\/p>\n<p><b>C<\/b>an you imagine how it would be if you moved to a new country?<\/p>\n<p><b>H<\/b>ow it would be if you came there and had a hard time speaking the language and to fit into the society?<\/p>\n<p><b>U<\/b>nderstanding the language is one thing and then you also have to understand the people.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A<\/b>ll of this is something a boy named Chu does in this movie.<\/p>\n<p><b>N<\/b>ow he has moved to the United States from China to study.<\/p>\n<p><b>D<\/b>o you think he is going to make it?<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>B<\/b>ecomes best friend with a guy named Blossom.<\/p>\n<p><b>L<\/b>earning how to let go and enjoy life.<\/p>\n<p><b>O<\/b>h so beautiful, he falls in love with a girl.<\/p>\n<p><b>S<\/b>uch a different person he becomes.<\/p>\n<p><b>S<\/b>o withdrawn in the beginning but now so happy and an enjoyer of life.<\/p>\n<p><b>O<\/b>h, may he take this with him when he goes back to China!<\/p>\n<p><b>M<\/b>issing the beautiful in life is no longer an option for Chu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Johanna Carlsson at Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2014. Can you imagine how it would be if you moved to a new country? How it would be if you came there and had a hard time speaking the language and to fit into the society? Understanding the language is one thing and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3727,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,3,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}