At the same time, the intrinsic story of the movie I feel is not problematic, and can be enjoyed without guilt.
As an asian (and thus non-white), i gotta say this:
Can you the white-men move pass the guilt already? Like just jeez, one way to progress is to stop dwelling on the past. Yes, imperialism from your ancestors were terrible, now let's move on already. I am not asking any white person to ignore or practice revisionism, but rather treat people of races as 'normal', you don't have to feel guilty or have this 'burden' to compensate anything.
As an asian myself, watching the praise for 'Crazy Rich Asians' hollywood (and the general Caucasians) praising on it is annoying. It's an adequate film but just because it has an 'almost' all-asian casts, it's praised to the high heavens. It's like that neighbour with his son that scored A+ for all his test and then coming over to congratulate about my son for merely scoring a B-.
I want a film to be praised because of its quality regardless of its 'color'. I don't want a film to be (over)praised due to it being pretty good....for a hollywood film with a majority asian casts.
Ang Lee's movies (sans the Hulk) were praised not because he's a pretty good director for a chinese, but because he's a good director, period.
I don't want or need white men to pander to us like we are kids on the kids' table and awarding us a participation trophy.
But i digress :P
