Love Hard | Official Trailer | Netflix

[theemii]

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A romantic comedy about the lies we tell for love. An unlucky-in-love LA girl (Nina Dobrev) falls for a rugged East Coast guy (Darren Barnet) on a dating app and decides to surprise him for the holidays-only to discover that she’s been catfished by his childhood friend (Jimmy O. Yang). Directed by Hernán Jiménez

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[purple3purple]

Does this seem racist to anyone else? The guy in the photos is mixed and the fully Asian dude is the "ugly" one who has to catfish people. Reminds me of CRA (also with jimmy) where a mixed guy has to be the lead heartthrob, clearly deviating from the books.

[empyrealmaiden]

Some of my asian guy friends have expressed frustration that it feels really hard to attract interest on dating apps/Asian Men are more excluded on apps through behavior/preference settings. I wonder if that will be addressed at all? IDK it looks like it's written by a white dude and someone else so maybe I shouldn't expect this to approach anything related to race with any nuance...

[_forluna]

I agree, if this was a nuanced take (People are definitely racist/have racial biases when they date, so it would make sense if an Asian man felt sidelined when seeing a White/Asian biracial man date) that would be pretty realistic to the experience that Asian men have communicated.

[kris_terror]

I had a similar thought

[hardto_remember]

It made me uncomfortable as well. I guess they try to make a point by having his brother in that one scene she crashes into their house be a conventionally attractive asian guy but still, it feels weird

[love_keiko]

agreed. hollywood is like COMMITTED to projecting the idea that asian men are unattractive unless they're mixed fr

[h_wyatt]

Definitely.