The Wedding Banquet Comments

  • Braden 2022-03-21 09:03:01

    85/100 Chinese contemporary master directors have paid little attention to the life of the people in modern cities. We actually yearn for more "wedding banquet"-style urban stories to appear on the big screen. The "Wedding Banquet" narrated by Ang Lee's simplicity is becoming a source of more and more pain for some people in the mainland society more than 20 years later. How can we pursue happiness under this blue sky and save the lost back of that old age...

  • Olin 2022-03-21 09:03:01

    Excellent script and use of camera lens, dramatic conflict, and each pair of contradictions is very representative: homosexuality and heterosexuality, China and the United States, mainland and Taiwan, tradition and modernity, parents and children. Ang Lee's understanding of Chinese culture is multifaceted, respectful, noisy, and conservative, yet tolerant, understanding, and reserved. The plot twists are unexpected and reasonable, and the characters are full and...

  • Brady 2022-03-20 09:02:37

    Seeing room number 1069, my glass heart...

  • Stanford 2022-03-20 09:02:37

    The level of Zhao Wenxuan’s debut is...

  • Kirstin 2022-03-20 09:02:37

    It seems that Dad Gao is also gay and has a relationship with Steward Zhang, but for the sake of this family, he has to get married and have a...

  • Laurianne 2022-03-20 09:02:37

    I don't have any good feelings about the gay sex, even if the girl is hired by money, I feel...

  • Daphnee 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    I still have a hard time accepting the plot setting that Gao Wei has lived with him for half his life without knowing his father understands English....

  • Eryn 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    The traditional bridal chamber is...

  • Hank 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    Therefore, when you get married, you must figure out the relationship between the best man and the groom. Be cautious in the slight...

  • Russel 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    How avant-garde this film was 20 years ago!...

Extended Reading

The Wedding Banquet quotes

  • Wai-Tung Gao: I don't know, we should have moved you out.

    Simon: I'll survive.

    Wai-Tung Gao: Not if Wei Wei keeps cooking.

  • Justice of the Peace: Okay, now you: "I, Wee-Wee..."

    Wei-Wei: Wee-Wee.

    Justice of the Peace: "... take you, Wai Tung..."

    Wei-Wei: Wee-Wee.

    Justice of the Peace: Okay. "To be my wedded husband... to have and to hold..."

    Wei-Wei: Holding to have, husband, mine...

    Justice of the Peace: "... for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer..."

    Wei-Wei: Better and richer, no poorer.

    Justice of the Peace: "... in sickness and in health, till death do us part."

    Wei-Wei: Till sickness and death.

    Justice of the Peace: Groovy. Rings.