Suite Suite Chinatown

As an experimental film, Suite Suite Chinatown explains some typical situations which Chinese American usually have to experience when they try to adapt to the life in the United States. The film uses a parallel film style made up with separated fragments mirroring different aspects of the life of Chinese Americans. For example, the first segment about the animation of Chinese novel Journey To The West, mirrors the nostalgia of the Chinese culture; the learning Cantonese and mandarin section corresponds to the communication difficulty between the old Chinese immigrants dominating by the Cantonese speaking Chinese and the increasing Mandarin speaking new Chinese immigrants. When addressed why this film is named Suite Suite Chinatown, the reason is that most of Chinese American share the memory related to Chinatown in common, although many of them might not live there nowadays.