Gender Differences In Spa Night

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In the movie “Spa Night,” it narrates a story that a filial second generation of Korean American tries to financially support his family after his family restaurant business went bankrupt, so he chose to secretly work in a spa instead of filling his parents’ desire to prepare and take the SAT exam. During his work in a Korean traditional spa place in LA, he observed customers’ homosexual behaviors while he started to orient his sexual preference. I think the director focuses more on reflecting the idea that the Korean-American parents from working class tend to neglect their children’s psychological education. Therefore, I deem the protagonist of “Spa Night”, David’s misconstruction of his sexual orientation was led by the pressure from his family and the whole American society. …show more content…

The movie starts in a spa place, David’s parents are talking about their future expectation to David. His mother expects David to marry a Korean girl. But David replied his parents that he wants to marry a Caucasian girl instead of a Korean girl. Their conversation seems to be ordinary; however, it delivers a lot of key information to audiences. David’s parents are still under traditional Korean conservative thought. Although the movie director does not give any clues about what David wants to do in his future, his words indicate his resisted feeling to what his parents want his future be like. However, David regards his family as more important than himself. He did realize the

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