07142021 Crazy Rich Asians

Pete 2022-04-19 09:01:51

I am trying to read, read and record more, and write my feelings. The overall feeling is pretty good, although the front is relatively procrastinated, it has always been portrayed by Western stereotyped Chinese upstarts, with overwhelming luxury, unrefined etiquette, conservative traditions of large families, and various dramas. . The plot is relatively flat as a whole, and there is nothing special about it. The love between Cinderella, a woman who pursues independence and freedom in the new era, and the children of wealthy families, the three aunts and six grandmothers eating melons, and all kinds of passers-by pointing and pointing, and finally the evil mother-in-law and prank. The mother-in-law didn't like Rachel from the beginning, and didn't like her background. But from the beginning to the end, I felt that there was a softness in my mother-in-law's heart that was deeply touched. Like the heroine, she was also a daughter-in-law who was not favored at the beginning, not the first choice of a wealthy family. For love and family, she dropped out of school and broke the heart of continuing to study as a lawyer. When making dumplings, after marrying into this family and dedicating for so many years, she is still the daughter-in-law with rough housework in the eyes of her grandmother. Perhaps, she saw a little bit of herself in Rachel. The highlight of the whole play starts from playing mahjong. Rachel bluntly said that she chose to leave and choose to withdraw from love, not because of fear, nor because she felt unworthy; on the contrary, she did not want Nick to betray her family for her. The ending is that Nick catches up on the plane and proposes marriage, which is a perfect ending, and the mother-in-law also agrees to the marriage. (Actually, it can't be said to be a perfect ending. I feel that there is a sudden reversal. Rachel fights for dignity in a dashing manner, and when she withdraws from the mess, she suddenly doesn't count anymore. It also seems that her mother-in-law suddenly agrees, which offsets her coming from the proud family. I don't know which side compromised this, whether it was the mother-in-law who endured her grandmother's dissatisfaction for the happiness of her son, or Rachel who faced the pressure of the wealthy for the sake of love. Throughout the film, there is also Mia (she should be the protagonist in real humans, let's call her that for the time being), the rich daughter married the poor boy, but her husband ended up cheating on her. Mia's last words, I think may be the bigger highlight of the show, "it's not my job to make you more like a man.

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  • Rachel Chu: Thanks for meeting me here.

    [Eleanor eyes the other two women at the mahjong table]

    Rachel Chu: Don't worry about them. They're half-deaf and they only speak Hokkien.

    [Long pause as Eleanor reluctantly settles into her seat]

    Rachel Chu: My mom taught me how to play. She told me mahjong would teach me important life skills: Negotiation. Strategy. Cooperation.

    Eleanor Young: You asked me here, I assume it's not for a mahjong lesson.

    [Shows her tiles]

    Eleanor Young: Pong.

    [Snidely remarks]

    Eleanor Young: My mother taught me too.

    Rachel Chu: I know Nick told you the truth about my mom, but you didn't like me the second I got here. Why is that?

    Eleanor Young: There is a Hokkien phrase 'kaki lang'. It means: our own kind of people, and you're not our own kind.

    Rachel Chu: Because I'm not rich? Because I didn't go to a British boarding school, or wasn't born into a wealthy family?

    Eleanor Young: You're a foreigner. American - and all Americans think about is their own happiness.

    Rachel Chu: Don't you want Nick to be happy?

    Eleanor Young: It's an illusion. We understand how to build things that last. Something you know nothing about.

    Rachel Chu: You don't know me.

    Eleanor Young: I know you're not what Nick needs.

    Rachel Chu: [pauses] Well he proposed to me yesterday.

    [pauses]

    Rachel Chu: He said he'd walk away from his family and from you for good.

    [pauses]

    Rachel Chu: Don't worry, I turned him down.

    Eleanor Young: [sighs] Only a fool folds a winning hand.

    Rachel Chu: Mm no. There's no winning. You made sure of that. 'Cause if Nick chose me, he would lose his family. And if he chose his family, he might spend the rest of his life resenting you.

    Eleanor Young: [after a long pause] So you chose for him...

    Rachel Chu: I'm not leaving because I'm scared, or because I think I'm not enough - because maybe for the first time in my life, I know I am.

    [Choking back tears]

    Rachel Chu: I just love Nick so much, I don't want him to lose his mom again. So I just wanted you to know: that one day - when he marries another lucky girl who is enough for you, and you're playing with your grandkids while the Tan Huas are blooming, and the birds are chirping - that it was because of me: a poor, raised by a single mother, low class, immigrant nobody.

    [Shows her tiles. Gets up. Walks to her mom, who turns and glares at Eleanor]

  • Astrid Young Teo: It was never my job to make you feel like a man. I can't make you something you're not.