“A Great Divide” is a Compelling Exploration of anti-Asian Racism that Deserves More Time

A Great Divide is an earnest, serious-minded examination of the ways systemic racism shapes and damages lives, and while uneven at times, offers a vision of hope and resilience for the future.

An expansive, desolate wilderness. A lone, gleaming mansion on a hill. A family arrives at their palatial new abode, but spends more time casting haunted, far-off looks into the distance than luxuriating in the fineries that surround them. 

From the beginning, A Great Divide has the key elements of a gothic tale – the kind rife with displacement, dark se…