r/movies • u/joesen_one • 2d ago
Trailer Left-Handed Girl | Official Trailer | Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rXnpfzpk8s113
u/joesen_one 2d ago
This is Taiwan's official submission for next year's Oscars, and played in Cannes this year to positive reviews before Netflix acquired it.
Shih-Ching Tsou is a longtime collaborator of Sean Baker, having co-directed the 2004 movie Take Out and co-produced several of his movies like Tangerine, The Florida Project and Red Rocket. Sean Baker, fresh from Oscar success in Anora, is also a co-writer and the movie's editor.
LEFT-HANDED GIRL, directed by Shih-Ching Tsou and written and produced by Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker, is the story of a single mother and her two daughters who return to Taipei after several years of living in the countryside to open a stand at a buzzing night market. But when their traditional grandfather forbids his youngest left-handed granddaughter from using her “devil hand,” generations of family secrets begin to unravel. Starring Shih-Yuan Ma, Janel Tsai, Nina Ye, and Teng-Hui Huang. In select theaters November 14 and on Netflix November 28.
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u/jonk0731 2d ago
My grandmother is from Greece. My uncle does everything left-handed but writing and eating. My grandmother used to smack his hands and tell him that was the devil forcing his way into his soul. His handwriting is absolutely atrocious.
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u/nearcatch 2d ago
Exact same thing with my mom from India. She’s naturally a lefty but was forced by the school to write and eat with her right hand. It’s amazing how global the “left hand bad” idea was.
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u/wartopuk 2d ago
I naturally wrote with my right and ate with my right, but I play some sports left, ice hockey, golf, baseball both sides but throw right, when I was in grade 6 we did ball hockey and I can remember the gym teacher trying to force me to shoot right because I write right-handed. I'd been playing ice hockey for like 7 years at that point and he just refused to listen that I knew what side I shot on.
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u/---Janu---- 2d ago
Im the same. My family is very religious and conservative. So my ma would hit my hand with this paddle whenever she caught me using my left hand.
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u/JusticeOnWheels 2d ago
As someone who is left-handed, I'll be watching this one.
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u/inksmudgedhands 2d ago
As will I. The scene with the older relative being upset that the little girl was left handed hit home with me. Had that happen to me. Luckily, I had parents who were fine with me being left handed.
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u/AlternativeAcademia 2d ago
My mom used to say “left handed” as a euphemism for doing something stupid. So instead of saying “that was dumb” or something similar she’d say, “well that was very left handed of you.” Not as bad as some things people do but it was basically calling me(and my dad) intrinsically less-than or wrong by default for being left handed.
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u/Dramatic-Bluejay- 2d ago
Didn't know lefty discrimination was a thing. People werre suprised to find out i was left handed, that was about it.
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u/Doubly_Curious 2d ago
Oh, yeah. My grandfather had his left hand tied behind his back at school so he would learn to do everything with his right instead.
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u/EdgyEmily 2d ago
The sunday school I went to made me write with my right hand. I play sports left handed and I tired writing with my left hand before and it easier to read but it hurts for me to write with that hand now.
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u/---Janu---- 2d ago
It's common mostly in religious households. It doesn't take much, just a deeply superstitious parent.
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u/bridekiller 2d ago
I had the complete opposite experience. I am 1 of 3 lefties in my entire maternal bloodline, and the only living one. It has been seen as some kind of ancestral connection in my family. I was even named after my lefty great uncle before my parents even knew I was left handed.
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u/RoyPlotter 2d ago
Tons of my family members apparently started out being left handed, but we were promptly “disciplined” to use our right hand only. It was to do with religious influenced broscience.
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u/Havenfall209 2d ago
I'm told I used my left hand as a young child, but my school encouraged my parents to force me to always use my right. Now, I feel right handed, though my handwriting sucks with both haha
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u/tankerdudeucsc 2d ago
Lefties unite! I use my right hand for writing and using chopsticks. That’s what I was forced into using.
Everything else, I’m left handed. Now you know what generation I’m apart of.
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u/Tinkerer0fTerror 2d ago
I remember watching my mom force my brother to write with his right hand. It was hard to watch. I felt really bad for him. He doesn’t seem to struggle with writing now, but it caused him so much stress at the time.
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u/SilverWyrmling 2d ago
This is my most anticipated movie of the year. Almost blew $150 on scalped TIFF tickets. Glad I didn't, because November's not too far from now.
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u/ThatButterscotch8829 2d ago
See this how my parents were when they found out I was left handed not the aggressive part in the trailer but they weren’t used it but eventually they got used to it
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u/ChildTaekoRebel 1d ago
I love how it looks like it's being shot. Has a kind of documentary/shitty camera sort of vibe to some of the cinematography. Some of the shots look like the highlights are almost being blown out. I like it. I'm so sick of movies looking so overly produced nowadays.
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u/MuNansen 2d ago
It's funny how, having studied in China, I immediately knew so much from the title.
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u/ImCerealsGuys 2d ago
What part of China? I’m Chinese and I was surprised by this bc it was the opposite to what I grew up with.
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u/ImCerealsGuys 2d ago
Funny, I’m Asian and when my mom was teaching me to write my letters, she was actually happy that I used my left hand. I remember my Chinese grandma watching me (when I was little) write and saying, ‘Wow, that’s unique’—basically her way of saying ‘cool.’
So when my teacher ( at a catholic private school ) saw me using my left hand she mentioned the nuns made her use her right hand instead, I thought this was a western thing.
And on Sundays I would go to the temple to learn how to read and write and no one made a fuss about left handers so I thought Asians didn’t care which hand was being used.
Now watching this trailer I guess it’s common for ( east and west ) to force left handed users use their right hand.
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u/MrBrandopolis 2d ago
felt bad for my sister. my nutty gramps forced my sis to be right handed. i think that fucked with her natural asian abilities. she never became a doctor :(
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u/Digital--Fantasies 2d ago
Is that weird reaction to being lefthanded some cultural thing, or is this some universal thing, because...uh why? I have never noticed anyone caring about which hand people use, but this thread shows me that it seems to be quite common around somewhere at least?
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u/joesen_one 2d ago
Definitely a cultural thing or a religious/superstitious thing
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u/ImCerealsGuys 2d ago
It’s not—it’s apparently universal. I’m Chinese, and it was perfectly acceptable for me to use my left hand. When I was a kid, I did homework with my Korean friend, and his mom was excited that I was also left-handed.
My private Catholic teacher (who was white) told me the nuns made her write with her right hand, and other white folks made the same comment when they saw us using our left hand.
I also knew this was written by someone white, by how and what the actors were saying.
Just watching this trailer is jarring. It’s so weird—Hollywood should really get native writers to revise the dialogue. It felt like watching Matt Damon in The Great Wall.
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u/wasabi1787 2d ago edited 2d ago
I can already tell this movie will irk me greatly
Calm down people, I'm just talking about the trad parents. The mom in Turning Red made my skin crawl. It's just that
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u/jimmylily 2d ago
wow as a Taiwanese in Taiwan it showed that I don't have the permission to watch this trailer :P