Angela and Grace
Searching for Angela Shelton is a quest for closure. Angela is picking up the pieces both of her life and the women she is interviewing and trying to piece them together. There is an inward movement in the film as Angela tries to relate her experience with incest and molestation with the other women around her. She takes the stories of all these women and creates an overlaying template for violence against women and their reactions to it. This differs form The Grace Lee Project which is more interested in observation and description. The film is an analysis of the asian american womens stereotype. By interviewing a select few Grace Lees she accentuates the strengths, weakness, commonalities and differences between them. Grace Lee's approach to her film give us real people, while Angela Shelton gives us caricatures of women by ignoring the other aspects of the women.