There's a riot going on in Justin Chon's urban drama. Before anyone gets carried away with the idea that the arrival of Justin Chon's Gook on the heels of Detroit constitutes "riot consciousness" in film theaters this summer,let's take a close glimpse at writer-director-actor Chon's ostensibly topical indie drama. Rather than portray a panoramic view of the 1992 Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, the provocatively titled Gook zooms in to a specific moment and region and a relatively small group of people — centering on two Korean-American brothers who own a makeshift-looking shoe store in the Los Angeles community of Paramount, and just east of Compton,on the day the disturbances begin.…
Source: eastbayexpress.com