Chinese director Shi Zhiyu's "Baby Bao" won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. However, Chinese netizens have polarized comments on the film. On the one hand, it believes that it truly reflects the image of Chinese/Asian mothers, and even reflects their common problems; on the other hand, it believes that the film is full of prejudice against Asian groups, and even seriously distorts the image of Asian women.
Theoretical origins of two positions: 1. Opposition: Postcolonialism:
(1) The western world uses its powerful cultural discourse power to export their culture to the eastern society, control their thoughts, and then make them lose their native culture and national spirit. (2) Western societies that control the right of cultural discourse will use various ways to show their imagined eastern societies, that is, grotesque, backward and ignorant. It even strongly supports Orientals to create such works, so that such creators can gain international recognition. 2. Supporting parties: (1) ("Art for art's sake"?) Art does not necessarily reflect reality, and exaggeration can achieve unexpected artistic effects, and can cause strong spiritual shock to the audience/reader. The real purpose of art. (2) ("coding" - "decoding") a work will not have such a strong political influence. The critics' criticism is only based on their subjective understanding of the work, the work does not have a completely consistent (negative) impact on all audiences/readers, and different people have different understandings of the same work, and the impact is also different. Not the same. (3) The works show the facts, and there is no need to decorate the peace.
These comments are very interesting, in fact, many works have triggered a big discussion on "whether to reflect the truth deeply, or to distort a certain group to suit the taste of a specific audience/reader".
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