"The Quest from Different Perspectives"
I thought that the two films were similar in many ways in the way "the road" and "the quest" were portrayed. For example, both films were about finding answers to life's questions (i.e. who am I, why are things the way there are etcetera). Searching for Angela Shelton and The Grace Lee Project were both a quest to find happiness. Happiness of course were two different things for the two different filmmakers. Angela's was finding closure from her horrible upbringing and Grace's is figuring out where she fits in with her Korean culture. Another difference between the two films was that Grace was behind the camera more often making "the road" the more center of attraction, while Angela was usually the main focus of the film. One way that "the road" was "raced" in Grace's documentary was how culture/being Asian American was a central motif. Her narration, the images on screen were constantly being brought back to the idea of the Asian/Korean in America or at home. Both documentaries were "gendered" in the fact that they were from a female perspective and because females were the main characters in both films. Men, when rarely shown, were usually unimportant or the problem for the female film director.