Wong Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Film Analysis

How we see ourselves cannot be exactly how we are perceived by others. This is an ordinary situation for common people in daily lives because no one can know everything about another person and one’s impression is always depending on the background information on the particular occasion when judgment is made. If what we really are or what we see ourselves is an iceberg, only the small part above the sea is seen by the others but larger part below the sea is unseen. Sometimes, how people think of us is like a distorting mirror, which misrepresents the truth, makes funny exaggerations and misleads far away from who we are.
The pictures of Laura Swanson are personal examples of the ‘iceberg’ views by others. With a casual glance, one may only see the coat in

If staring at the picture, one may find that there are legs under the coat but as the legs are short one may only guess it’s a child there. So does the other picture “pillow”. The hands hugging the pillow and the feet in the front indicate the size of the person hiding behind the pillow is small. If I didn’t know it is Laura’s self-portrait, I would just regard the pictures are taken for children.
Kristina Wong’s concert film “Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” appeals much more to me. It involves a mixture of how we see ourselves, how we are seen and how we want others to see us. In the show, Kristina Wong claims to address the issue of Asia-American women having high rates of suicide. Indeed, she vividly presents the different tragic stories of various Asia-America women, by using the fast-rolled projector popping up as website flash, or just by performing on herself. Several serious reasons are referred such as a hard childhood, lack of communication, being alienated in school, or social pressure in the cultural community (you should get a