How I Learned To Drive

Went and watch How I Learned To Drive, a dramatic and engaging play directed by a 22year-old psychology student. Very impressive..

It;s a simple movie, talking bout how a lady, played along her teenage years, grew up sexually abused and learned to 'let go of the clutch' so to speak and floor the gas to reach a peace with herself.

The story starts at when she was 17 years old, went out driving, she behind the wheel, Uncle Peck, her mother's brother in-law, about to go for a high tryst. The steamy part was creatively made visual without the real flesh. 

Adjust backward,(in this movie is all about going reverse or forward like you are in car, U-turning as you go back in time when she's younger, exploring the seed of the tryst that settles so deeply and comfortably in the opening act) L'il Bit, the young protagonist, just one year younger was very uncomfortable with her family liberty with the matter of the bed between two consenting flesh. She was obviously disturbed by the openness, less of the uneasiness than the psychological trauma she was going through.

A few plots showed how she was not able to live a normal life during her teens because of her experience with her uncle, Uncle Peck. How she could not dance with someone else, or fall in love, or how she bores her friends because of her peculiar interpretation of teenage sex and love.

This play is very engaging and polished. Something that is far and way more sophisticated than the one I involved in. For obvious measure, one can only see how the person like and would mess up the whole show because simply of their command or lack thereof of their English. 

With our acting ability, this is just not happening. It would be a disaster even at the start. Why do I even bother to raise this up?

All in all, I totally enjoyed this show, the main protagonist was good, improving by the minute, must got warmed up by the debut night. Whereas I think Johann the lead actor was good at first but tend to lack stamina to push through the finish line. But his experience and his charm got him by. I should say through out of the two main acts, Johann inhabit the character much more consistently and cohesively, leaving no chance to the strength of his sparring partner. One can totally feel the empathy for his character.

However, this play can;t help alienating the audience, not by the sheer visual of the show, which is not that rampant anyway, but by the southern American elements to it. The director somehow fail to put a seamless mix of the story's essential southern influence with the fact that the characters are Chinese and lack the necessary tongue to pull through convincingly the right stuffs needed for the play. Some element of Chineseness does manage to spill out once in a while, one among the audience can't help but to think that the story tries to mesh the two spectrum of the human race together but fail, flip flopping back to the original element.

And yes, Johann has a nice ass :)