‘The Half of It’ Creates a Whole Picture of Regional Queerness

A queer movie review of Alice Wu’s new film

(Warning: This review contains minor spoilers of the film.)

IMAGE: The Half of It, Dir Alice Wu, Netflix (2020)

For a movie whose Netflix premise vaguely reads like another take on Twelfth Night, Alice Wu’s second major film, The Half of It, steers clear of visual paraphrasing and instead takes a clear snapshot…