The hysteria of Chinese ethics films

Jaime 2022-04-20 09:01:44

The scripts of the old dramas are really tired. . Some commented that they thought of "Thunderstorm", the keynote of thunderstorm is depression, which erupts in depression. This film is Aunt Mei's attack from the beginning to the end, and finally blows everyone up. Put it in China, it is a story of a middle-aged and elderly woman with a strong desire to control + a husband who has no sense of existence and daughters who are deviant. After reading this story, it will not heal, it will only make us reflect, if there is no love, why not let go earlier, why do we have to kill everyone? Is it just because you are being bullied? Or is divorce a failure in life? For those who have struggled from the bottom, money is very important, and "success" is more important? When Aunt Mei accused her three daughters of being losers, she felt that she was out of the values ​​of domestic aunts. .

Aunt May's brother-in-law is probably the only character in the film who has a correct view. In the end, he asked his wife why she couldn't respect others? He cherished 38 years of marriage, but if she stopped treating her biological son well, it would be less than 39 years. The son was the wife's unforgivable mistake, a secret forever, but Aunt May knew it long ago. How could these two hide it for so long, one punished his son to forgive himself, and the other punished his husband by taking drugs, just to be the winner of the marriage?

I always feel that this is not like an American story that advocates freedom, but more like a cliché domestic family ethics drama. Maybe life is one after another routine, everyone is crazy about "success", Aunt Mei thought she could let go, but she just stood on the moral high ground and defended her "success" again. There are only Indian nannies who have "failed" from their ancestors.

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