On A Clear Day

The clues amass very slowly but at the end you realize it was all about bereavement and a futile effort to undo it. A brief scene of a husband videotaping his gagged and handcuffed wife, dressed in tight black leather, in public and in broad daylight, is comical rather than disturbing. In three brief scenes an Asian man learns to assert himself in the face of racism. The collapse of a character on a sidewalk looks like anything but the panic attack diagnosed in the emergency room.

assertiveness | bereavement | panic attack | Sexual Masochism | Sexual Sadism