"The Wedding Banquet", as the name suggests, should be a sublimation of a beautiful love story. But at the beginning of the movie, the mother's nagging on the overseas phone call and various marriage urgings set off. I didn't see Qiong Yao's beautiful love, but in the excuses that Zhao Wenxuan made frequently, I found that the male protagonist was vaguely covering up his love Later, I saw some clips in the interview review of the variety show, and I was surprised that "The Wedding Banquet" had such scenes). Between ignorance and ignorance, I still wonder how the plot will lead to the "wedding banquet".
The direction of the story, which is somewhat unreasonable (the self-thinking of the year), is so smooth and so natural. The male protagonist Zhao Wenxuan couldn't resist the urging of his parents, and began to randomly request various impossible conditions; no matter what the conditions (such as having N doctoral titles in different fields), his mother, Gui Yalei, could also be found and arranged to meet. When we met, the boy's embarrassment and the girl's "I understand" expression seemed like a joke, but in retrospect, it was so vivid, just right. It's obviously an excuse, but I can't avoid it if I don't think about it. Simply starting from the difference between the two generations, parents will take the excuses of children seriously, they really believe every word you say, and then work hard to achieve it for you within their ability and beyond their ability, although they do everything. will not say. This is the traditional Chinese parents, the traditional Chinese marriage and love relationship cannot be separated from the two-generation relationship.
The film not only brings the conflict between father and son, mother and son, but more, is full of the conflict between traditional Chinese culture and western thinking on the other side of the ocean, the conflict between tradition and modernity. The traditional Chinese parents portrayed by Lang Xiong and Gui Yalei, adhering to the principle of "unfilial piety has three, no descendants is the greatest", faced with the choice of their children, they opposed, struggled, and even tried to save them... But in the end, they accepted. Just like the conversation between Lang Xiong and his son's boyfriend before the end of the film, no matter how traditional thinking rejects this emotional model, as a father, he still accepts this second son.
As for the definition of traditional mother, Gui Yalei's interpretation should be the most appropriate and most vivid. From the worry of urging marriage on the other end of the transoceanic phone, to following across the sea, to facing the orientation of the son, the choice of the younger generation, and finally to the final compromise. I still remember that scene, the third junior was going out to kill the child. Although she used other excuses to go out, her mother's natural sensitivity made Gui Yalei panic. She eagerly wanted to follow and stop it from happening, but in the end, she Still failed. As a traditional mother, she did what she should do, and she did what she couldn't do.
I forgot how the character Jin Sumei broke into my eyes, and the reason for her intrusion, but at the moment when she decided to keep the child after she hesitated, maybe she really did a fake show and really moved. Sincerely. (N years later, looking at Gao Jinsumei, who frequently shows up on Kojima News, the stubbornness on her face is exactly the same as the expression on Wei Wei's face in "The Wedding Banquet" when she decides to keep the child). Without going into the details, what is the meaning of Jin Sumei's role? In her mind, when making this decision, she should take the responsibility of her mother and choose a threesome. Maybe she has love for him, but more It's disrespectful to the child.
Because of this "Wedding Banquet" and the later "Diet Men and Women", I found "Pushing Hands". It is undeniable that Ang Lee's trilogy controls the relationship between "traditional China and modern thinking" and the relationship between the two generations is very subtle. But my favorite is "The Wedding Banquet". It tells the conflict between two generations, the conflict between tradition and modernity, through the wedding banquet, which is an iconic node of the Chinese people. It seems that there are conflicts everywhere, but there seems to be no conflict.
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