Model Minority In Justin Lin's Film Better Luck Tomorrow

Model Minority: Better Luck Next Time Often one’s perception of an individual could set a fixed idea of them before even meeting them. Usually race plays a huge role in how one is perceived by others. Minorities especially face this discrimination; however, there is one social group who is praised among these minorities. This social group is none other than the model minority. The model minority myth is nothing new; it’s often been used in popular culture as a background theme. One example of its use in popular culture is Justin Lin’s film Better Luck Tomorrow. The film exhibits use of the model minority myth in both positive and negative connotations. The positive portrayal of the myth being linked to social groups, such as Asians, and the belief that all Asians exceed in school is the main ideology presented in the film. Yet, the movie also displays a darker side of this mythology such as, exploiting this misinterpreted conception of appearance in terms of an alibi to commit crimes. Leading the mythology of the model minority to be interpreted in serval ways. In Better Luck Tomorrow the film exhibits ideologies of the model minority myth that proves to be problematic to some ethnic groups. Notably, the model minority is linked to being the prime example of the perfect social group. First off, a model minority is a minority group whose members are perceived to achieve a higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population …show more content…
The mythologies presented show the positive attributes that the film seems to support such as preparing for their future success, and being extremely in tuned with school. However, the film also presents the dark side of the model minority such as using the mythology tied to their race and using it as an alibi to escape consequence’s. The film Better Luck Tomorrow