"The Wedding Banquet" is not inferior to "Brokeback Mountain", and even to a certain extent, exceeds the connotation of "Brokeback Mountain". Perhaps that too strong Chinese-style feelings are incomprehensible to Westerners. This film is not only about one aspect of emotion, but also about family (parents and sons, husband and wife), love (same-sex, opposite-sex), superiors and subordinates (teachers, cooks and old men), etc. Feelings intertwined to make things seem like a mess. Sadly, the happy ending. Everything was unexpected, but the end result was what everyone wanted. A very Chinese film, and finally completed with a Chinese-style ending.
Ang Lee is a master at handling details. Many details seem to have nothing to do with the plot, but in fact they can reveal quite a wealth of information, which is fascinating. For example, Wei Tong drove Wei Wei to the hospital to prepare for the flow of people. The car drove past a hamburger restaurant and slowly backed up. Wei Wei said he was hungry and asked Wei Tong to buy a hamburger. What's more related to this scene is that Weiwei is sitting in the car eating and telling Wei Tong that this is what the child wants to eat. The implication is to keep the child and plan to raise the child by himself. At this time, looking back at the details of the car slowly backing up to the door of the burger shop, you can speculate a lot of meaning. First, the decision to keep the child was abrupt and not planned. Second, seeing the hunger for burgers made Weiwei realize his desire for children, seeing the store was an accident, and going backwards was inevitable. It was this short section of the road that Weiwei's one thought made a major turning point in the progress of the matter, and finally came to a happy ending. This detail seems simple and useless, but it actually contains an opportunity for the plot to turn.
What impresses me is often not the big action scenes, but the details that seem to be casual but have deep inner meanings.
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