The documentary What Jennifer Did (What Jennifer Did) aroused great interest from audiences around the world. The journey to find the real culprit who attacked the Pan family, leaving one person dead, shocked and shocked viewers. In addition, the film also successfully attracted Vietnamese audiences because of many Vietnamese details and elements scattered throughout the film, while also causing a lot of controversy.
Specifically, in the first third of the movie, the audience has the opportunity to look at Jennifer Pan's interrogation documents nearly 15 years ago. Besides, Netflix brings viewers some new details such as shares from neighbors, friends… Pan's family. Among them, a girl named Hong Ngo is a friend and often comes to Pan's house to play and eat. She shared in Vietnamese that “Some evenings, I went to her house to play and she invited me to dinner. They are very cheerful and generous. They love their friends very much. Mr. Hann works 5 hours a week. Every day, if he has overtime, he still works. He doesn't participate in gambling or drinking at all. He is a simple, ordinary man.”
Hong Ngo – friend of the victim's family
But at this time, What Jennifer Did illustrated Hong Ngo's interview with some pictures of Vietnamese family meals, recounting how Hong Ngo was often invited by the Pan family to stay for dinner together. It is worth mentioning that the way Vietnamese meals are arranged in the movie makes many audiences, especially Vietnamese people, confused and startled. Because the dining table in What Jennifer Did has a strange combination of dishes, the longer you look at it, the more you laugh and cry.
The dining table includes dishes such as braised meat with eggs, bitter melon soup, but in addition there are banh xeo, banh tet… The scene in the movie shows the character wrapping banh xeo while in front of him is a bowl of bitter melon soup. too large, or more strangely, there wasn't any bowl of white rice on the table.
The meal was “examined” by Vietnamese audiences in What Jennifer Did
This detail is currently causing controversy among Vietnamese netizens. Some people criticize the Hollywood crew for “studying for the sake of formality”, not really understanding Asian culture and also not seeming to ask authentic people to provide details that are true to reality. “The props team probably just went online to search for keywords like 'outstanding dishes in Vietnamese meals' and chose a few eye-catching, most diverse dishes and put them together…”, a frustrated netizen said. expressed.
However, there are also viewers who think that this is just an illustration that appears for a few seconds, so viewers don't need to be too critical, instead focusing on the main content of the movie.
Audiences complained about the strange Vietnamese meal in the movie
Currently, What Jennifer Did is still ranked #1 globally in the movie segment on the Netflix platform. The film exposes the horrifying truth behind the robbery that left one person dead on the evening of November 8, 2010. The victim who reported it to the police, Jennifer Pan, turned out to be the real culprit. She and her ex-boyfriend hired someone to set up a robbery to kill her parents. However, the fact that her father is still alive has contributed greatly to bringing Jennifer Pan to light and receiving appropriate consequences from the law.