In ‘Dìdi,’ emerging director Sean Wang maps teenhood shaped by AIM and MySpace

At turns erratic and gentle, trippy and earnest, 'Dìdi' affords us a visual vernacular of what it means to love without measure

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“ were things that I think a lot of kids grew up with, but I hadn’t really ever seen them in movies, like shown the way that we use them,” Wang, in a modest dark turquoise shirt, tells me over Zoom.

And it’s a story he’s long been wanting to create. “I think it came about from just a love for movies,” he says of the film’s provenance, “like, just movies about adolescence that I felt like treated adolescence with as much emotional maturity that I think adolescents can be, that it wasn’t pandering to kids, and just wanting to do my version of it and see what I could uncover by diving into something that was sort of more through my perspective.

This sort of do-it-yourself, YouTube-to-filmmaking trajectory of Wang’s career parallels that of his idol, Spike Jonze, also a skater turned filmmaker, that he would later meet and cast as a voice talent in the film., Wang recalls his first conversation with Jonze. “We just talked about process and he was like, ‘Dude, if there’s anything I learned in the last 30 years of making stuff, it’s that anything can be anything.

Of Joan, who imbues her character, Chungsing, with so much emotional weight, fortitude, patience, and grace as a mother also caught in liminality, Wang says, “I think working with was such a gift. She really upped everyone’s game and she was so generous and kind and warm.”, his documentary short that premiered at last year’s South by Southwest where it won the grand jury prize and audience award.

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