This is not just a light comedy about Asians showing off their wealth to the old beauty, but also a modern version of Cinderella's story that uses courage and true love to break cultural differences and class barriers and gain the respect and approval of Oriental mother-in-law. The Asian films that Lao Mei watched, the performance of the cultural differences between China and the United States could not escape.
Rachel is a banana man born and raised in the United States, the youngest Eco Professor in NYU, a typical western independent female character, smart, humorous, self-confident, ambitious, brave and independent. The male protagonist Nick is a super rich second generation in Singapore. He is handsome and stature. He is rich and considerate and romantic. He is the prince charming of most women. He is going to take his favorite Rachel back to his best friend's wedding to meet his family and meet his family on the plane. Only then did Rachel know that her boyfriend is a rich second generation. But she still underestimated the wealth of Nick's family and the full malice of the wealthy family towards Pan Gaozhi.
Fortunately, Rachel is a brave and strong fighter, facing ex-girlfriend Amanda and other jealous women teasing her with dead fish at the bachelorette party, "I am not gonna give them the satifaction" she bravely said. Facing Eleanor's disapproval, when everyone thought she would not dare to appear again, she dressed up to attend, fought back the bad-hearted Amanda, faced Eleanor directly, and sat in the first row and became friends with Princess Intan, who is also westernized and independent. . But in the end, when grandma strongly opposed to fleeing to the United States because Eleanor found out that Rachel's mother was derailed and pregnant, Rachel couldn't accept the fact of her life experience, and began to feel inferior to her own life experience and didn't have the courage to return to Nick's side.
Fortunately, Nick found Rachel's mother, and Rachel's mother is also a very optimistic and self-improving woman. Although she was unfortunately married to a domestic abuser when she was young, she fell in love with a teacher and became pregnant, and ran to the United States to save her life. But she never contacted the man she loved again for the safety of her daughter. She has no regrets or regrets because of her past self-esteem or self-pity, but has a strong foothold in the United States, raised her daughter by herself, and is proud of her smart daughter. Mama's optimism also gave Rachel the courage to bounce back. But when Nick proposed to Rachel, she refused, not this time because she felt unworthy, but for her own dignity.
The passage between Rachel and Eleanor playing mahjong explains what true love is. When Eleanor said: only a fool fold a winning hand, it just proved the psychology that Rachel taught in class before, that is, how much people are afraid of losing, in order not to lose Making many wrong choices also highlights how much sacrifice she made for giving up on love later.
Rachel took the initiative to let Eleanor win, because she knows that there is no winner or loser in love, no gain or loss of her own, only hope that the person you love is happy. In order to prevent Nick from losing his family and his mother, he chose to let it go. When Eleanor won with Rachel's eight of a kind, Rachel also showed her his cards, and Eleanor knew that Rachel had deliberately lost to her. she fold her winning hand for love. It was she who really loved her son that she chose to let go. It also finally made Eleanor realize that he had always thought that he was good for his son but did not really start from the happiness of his son. Rachel finally won Eleanor's respect for letting go of love.
Michelle Yeoh's Eleanor is also a very rich character: first of all, she is a powerful and wealthy wife, noble and elegant, she can't be emotional, she arranges things at home in an orderly manner, has her own circle of rich wives, and still loves people she doesn't like. Maintain superficial restraint and courtesy. At the beginning, the scene where Eleanor Young wanted to stay in a hotel but was treated unreasonably by the hotel lobby, and then she made a phone call and bought the hotel. On the one hand, it reflects how rich Asians are, and how self-willed they can be with money, and it also reflects that Eleanor Young is a ruthless character who will not suffer from dumb losses. Of course, there is also a hint of racial discrimination in it. Many ignorant white people one-sidedly think that the Chinese are all smugglers and poor people living in Chinatown. Their ignorance and discrimination even exceed the professionalism that their hotel staff should have. They have a sense of service, so they don't let the Chinese live in even if they have a room, and they let them go to other places to find a room when it rains.
She is also a very traditional Chinese elder. Her disapproval of Rachel is not only because Rachel has no wealthy family, but also her disapproval of Western culture: she does not like the pursuing ones passion, open mindedness and independence of Westerners, because Eastern parents are used to it In order to treat the children as their own property, obedient with shaping the life of their children, she believes that women should focus on their family, rather than being selfish like Westerners, who only consider their own happiness and not the family. Consider family. Chinese people eat dumplings made by their families and Westerners eat macron cheese bought in microwave ovens. Orientals pay attention to filial piety, of course, to support the elderly, while Western elderly will only be sent to nursing homes when they grow old. So she worries that such a western-minded daughter-in-law will not be filial to take care of her in her later years.
Eleanor is still an unacceptable daughter-in-law. It turns out that she is also an ordinary family who has never been recognized by her grandma, so she is scheming to make her son pampered, even at the time of separation from mother and son to let her grandmother raise her son and make him her grandma's favorite. The grandchildren gain the approval of the grandmother, and also allow the son to inherit the most inheritance. So when she saw that her grandmother actually recognized and liked Rachel, an ordinary born girl, she was jealous and jealous, so she told Rachel that you wil never be good enough for my son.
But in the end, she is also a mother who loves her son very much. After the Mahjong talk, she realized that she is not the most competent mother. She is selfish to impose her own consciousness instead of love on her son. After Rachel gave her her engagement ring and helped Rachel gain the approval of her family, she also kept her son's love and had a smart daughter-in-law.
Sister Astrid is a combination of wisdom, wealth, beauty and kindness. She is obviously the most qualified person to do whatever she wants, but she is not free and easy to live her true self. She is afraid of her husband's inferiority, so every time she comes back from shopping, she has to hide things. She cares too much In the eyes of others, he always shows himself very well. He is a person who is perfectly armed by himself on the outside, but is very fragile and lacks love on the inside, and always feels that he is not good enough. So she was extremely considerate to her husband and even deliberately rejected her job so as not to make him feel inferior because of her excellence, but in the end, this cowardly and pleasing love was only exchanged for this cowardly man because of his own inferiority. of women cheat in search of presence. I really like the part where my sister finally awakens to be herself, finally no longer overly blamed and over-pleasant to maintain a fragile relationship, "The problem of our marrage is not my family money, its that you are a coward, you gave us on us. its not my job to make you feel like a man, I can not make you sth you are not.”
In contrast, Peik Lin lives a very confident and free life. He looks crazy, but he is actually very smart and truly confident. I am Peik Lin, I am always right. In addition to having a fashionable aesthetic, he also talks about loyalty, integrity, and wisdom. . Always help the heroine to grasp the key points at critical moments, "Its not getting Eleanor to like you, its about getting her to respect you." Encourage the heroine to be brave, and to be strong in the face of strength. When the heroine finally rejected Nick's proposal, she also humorously said: You have no one, no net worth, but you have your integrity, that's why i respect you.
In addition, the performance of the rich people's life in the whole movie is really eye-opening. The bachelor party and wedding scenes are really shocking. I really like the water corridor of the church wedding. The bride comes in a white shirt and steps on the water, so pure and clean , There is also a kind of meaning that after baptism, a beautiful new marriage life begins. The medieval wedding march "Can't Help Falling in Love", which was resident at the wedding, also made the whole wedding scene more beautiful, and people couldn't help but want to get married. (Additional: Only Happy Ending meets the mainstream needs of the audience, and it also gives the audience a material and moral double standard answer that can satisfy them: You can have money without worshipping money.)
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