Floor By Love Analysis

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Another film that explores queer East Asian women body is Floored by love (2005) which was all written by Desiree Lim. Whats interesting about this film is that it consists of two stories by Lim and Tulchinsky that are intertwined together in a larger narrative to deal with people reactions to homosexuality and cross-cultural relationships. However, I will focus on Lim’s story which looks closely at two East Asian women living in Vancouver who struggles to recognize as a lesbian couple by their family members. The story revolves around Cara (a Malaysian-“Chinese”-Canadian) and Janet (a Japanese-Canadian) who are dating each other, the conflict arises when Janet inform her parents that she would like to marry Cara. Yet, Cara has not yet informed

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