Angela and Grace
As I think about the two films Searching for Angela Shelton and The Grace Lee Project I find that there are more differences than similarities. First of all, both of the films were made for different purposes when compared to each other. Although both of the main characters were on a quest to find something they both had different reasons for setting out in the first place. Angela Shelton seemed to be very selfish in her film because she was the most interested in her own life instead of the other people that she talked with. Grace Lee, on the other hand, was more selfless as she talked with other people. She was interacting with the other people in a way that made it very clear that she wasn’t on this journey for her own well being. She was interested in finding and voicing the differences in people that makes them who they are.
As far as the issue of the road being “raced” and “gendered” in both of these films goes, I also see more differences than similarities. Angela Shelton’s movie was neither raced nor gendered because its issues dealt with and confronted many different races while including the views of both males and females. Grace Lee’s film, on the other hand, was both raced and gendered. She mainly focused on the issues that surrounded Asian women living in the US. She did include the views and thoughts of the male gender and other races but only in small amounts, which were not significant enough to provide enough imput for the movie to not be raced or gendered. Grace Lee's film didn’t relate to as many people as Angela Shelton’s did because she narrowed her movie down to only being able to tell the story of Asian women.