Karaoke

Karaoke begins as a story about childhood rivalries and a mothers innocent mistake causing prepubescent dreams of becoming a child star to be devastated and crushed silently and without incident until one day when those feelings of resentment suddenly rise back to the surface upon watching a wandering VHS tape on which the scene of a starstudded concert takes place Alongside this grainy colorful footage the details of that dreaded day begin to reveal themselves while the hips of a belly dancer shakes or an angelic voice woos an applauding audience Gradually the narrative transforms from an adorable episode from infancy to a deeply personal and tragic portrayal of memory loss and the towering figure that is the mother