#lisa chow

[phosphorusab]

Nobody talks about this, but Remmick violated Bo Chow just as much as he did Grace Chow. He already knew of Lisa - he could have called his own bluff and send Bo out into town while Grace watched. He did not need to voyeur himself to a memory Bo had of he and his wife being sexually intimate, and then harass Grace with this information in her and her husband’s native language, all while Bo is standing there being puppeteered. The Chows were both violated.

Remmick is one of those cult leaders that when a husband and wife join the cult, the marriage is dissolved and they become obsessed with and controlled by the leader.

[fourteentrout]

God, the color symbolism in Sinners. Remmick being the only one with red reflection in his eyes, even after he turns person after person, still isolated within his unreachable, hate-fueled fantasy. Stack wearing red for the majority of the film until he's turned. Red being the only color that Grace has to paint the Club Juke sign with. Someone else mentioned this, but Lisa's red shirt being the delineation between herself and both the white-customer and black-customer storefronts her parents own---the ability to walk between worlds, and yet to never really be a part of either one. It goes beyond "oh, red is the color of blood." Red is foreshadowing for bad things to come, red is otherness, red is violent isolation. Stack no longer wearing red in his 90s mid-credit getup. I'm losing it. Don't even get me started on blue.

[teenagecriminalmastermind]

we talk about the most impactful and powerful scenes in sinners, and most of them are solid contenders. but to me, no scene will hit harder than this.

this right here shows what they had, and what they lost. family. friends. community. freedom. this is what smoke is willing to die for. it’s not just remmick that took that from him, but the klan, because the klan was going to take that from them come morning light anyways. but it’s not just the contextual importance of the scene that makes it the hardest hitting one for me - it’s the social importance.

because THIS is what colonialism and white supremacy has taken from people of colour, especially the black community.

I am not a member and so cannot speak on the matter, but as someone who comes from a country very heavily exploited by colonialism, I felt this in my bones. our oppressors took this from us - they took our brothers and fathers, our husbands and sons, our grandmas and sisters and wives and daughters. our friends, our culture, our history.

and with a civil war darkening america’s horizons, this scene is a powerful reminder of what we’re fighting to keep.

[spookytuesdaypod]

happy thinkin’ ‘bout it thursday this thursday i am thinkin’ ‘bout lil lisa saying “guilty as charged” in her incredibly thick southern accent before leveling stack with a no fucks stare. i’m not convinced that if remmick DID go to her home she couldn’t have ended him with a look and her sass alone. oh you want to come in????? how about you give me one good reason why i should even entertain that idea 🤨🤨🤨

[braininthefridge2000]

Thinking about how Lisa Chow went to bed one night safe in her room while her parents were away at a party and woke up an orphan. Did she ever find out what happened to her family? Maybe Sammie could tell her. What happened to her then? Who took care of her? Did she know her mom died protecting her?

[vampirefunkmetal]

thinking abt bo chow and the twins being best friends.

grace wears a cross so the chows are probably some denomination of christian. do you think one of the twins is lisa's godfather?

[incompleteth0ts]

I'm still not over Sinners

I just rewatched Sinners for the third time, and it just keeps getting better and better. Something I haven't seen anyone talk about —back when it was still trending —is the Chow family. Not only the Chows, but also their connection to the color red and its use throughout the movie.

Bo and Grace are a Chinese family with their daughter Lisa. When we meet Lisa, her shirt is red. Stack, the twin with the red hat, asks Grace to paint a sign for the Juke Joint; however, the only color they have available is red paint. When Grace leaves the shop to paint the sign and help step up the Juke Joint, she's wearing a red bandana; other than that, she or her husband does not wear any red.

On Chinese New Year, it is tradition to wear red, as it symbolizes Good Luck and protection from bad spirits. While there might not be any bad spirits, there is a Remmick, and even though it's not CNY, the opening of the Juke Joint is symbolic for new beginnings for the Moore family. Ironically enough, the only one of them who wears red is Stack; however, once the night started to kick off, he took off his hat, leaving him vulnerable to evil spirits.

Lisa, presumably, was able to live a long- if not sad- life, untouched by the evil that got to her parents. Grace was able to live longer than her husband, protected by the small bit of red she did wear.

The Juke Joint. Its brand new sign painted with red kept the people inside of it safe for as long as she could until Grace let Remmick in.

[darkcrowprincess]

kind of wish Grace and Bo could have gotten their own song in the Sinners movie. Maybe they did in the cut. Plus I just want a few more scenes with them. I like to imagine they got their own version of together in heaven scene and that their daughter is ok.