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Drama, Thriller, Crime 90 min
Rotten Tomatoes80%IMDb
It only takes one shot.
A young Chinese-American cop unravels after accidentally shooting an innocent African-American man through a wall.
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A Shot Through the Wall offers a third alternative on an issue traditionally seen literally in black-and-white terms. Casting a lead of Chinese descent couldn't be more natural for writer/director Aimee Long, but there's more to this decision than just ethnic identification; accordingly, police officer Mike Tan (Kenny Leu) is not limited by his cultural heritage: his partner who may or may not also be his best/only friend, Ryan Doheney (Derek Goh), is white; his fiancée Candace Walker (Ciara Renée) is biracial; and his superior and future father-in-law D.C. Walker (Clifton Davis) is African-American. This carefully constructed microcosm comes tumbling down when, chasing a suspect through the hallways of an apartment building, Mike accidentally shoots through a wall and the stray bullet fatally lodges in one of the tenants, with part of the incident, including Mike’s and Ryan’s faces, being recorded on another tenant’s cell phone. In theory, Mike will not face any consequences other than emotional and psychological ones; after all, “It's hard to prove [criminal] intent when you shoot someone through a wall.” This is, however, where Mike's ethnicity comes into play on different level
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