Obviously not the best face

Wei Er (Yang Yahui) is a third-generation immigrant in the United States. As a promising surgeon, Wei Er can be said to be the pride of her mother (Chen Chong). Except for the father's departure, their lives seem to be called happiness. Wei Er attended the Chinese gathering held every week at the request of her mother, and accepted the blind date arranged by her mother. Wei Er meets ballerina Vivian (Chen Ling) at a party, and the two have a crush on each other. After the party, Vivian took the initiative to contact Wei Er several times, and the two finally established a relationship. Just as the two fell in love, Wei Er's mother had to live in Wei Er's apartment because of her pregnancy. The mother guessed the relationship between Wei Er and Vivian from the interaction between the two, and opposed the relationship between the two. Her mother, grandparents, and the entire Chinese social circle, the pressure that Wei Er faces makes her have to keep silent about this relationship. Tired of Vivian's escape, Vivian decided to accept the invitation of the Paris Ballet and went to Paris alone. Wei Er finally confessed her sexual orientation to her mother, and with Wei Er's encouragement, her mother finally did not marry the person arranged by her father because of her face. Wei Er and her mother ran away from the wedding and rushed to the airport to find Vivian, but they still failed to save Vivian. At the end of the film, Wei Er and Vivian reunite at the party, and this time Wei Er is no longer bound by tradition.

The story takes place in the United States, but the Chinese circle in which Wei Er lives is like a miniature traditional Chinese society. So when the mother was pregnant but refused to reveal the father of the child, the grandfather was annoyed. How could such a dignified professor have such a daughter. In the traditional Chinese concept, only married can have children, and unmarried mothers are not accepted. Even in the end, my grandfather asked my mother to marry someone she didn't like in order to save face. And Wei Er, as a woman, of course can only like men. So Wei Er can only talk about a quiet love. Vivian was disappointed with Wei Er's withdrawal, and finally decided to leave. Wei Er finally decided to be honest with her mother. Fortunately, the place where they live is New York after all, so even though the mother is pregnant out of wedlock, escape from marriage and how deviant Wei Er's sexuality seems to the Chinese are acceptable. In other words, the environment they live in is much more accepting of their stories than the small Chinese circles. The grandfather did not cut off relations with them in the end, although he said that the child born by the mother had to be brought by himself, so as not to let Wei Er and the mother bring it harm. To some extent, my grandfather also accepted his daughter and granddaughter. This is probably related to another Chinese tradition.

The film is classified as a comedy, so don't worry about seeing a heart-wrenching tragedy. The director used the shooting technique of children playing with sand to express the ecology of the small Chinese circle. During the party, a group of mothers stand together and there will always be endless hexagrams, and the group of old men who are controlled by their wives eat and pass "secrets between men" to each other. The "children" who have successful careers and are single dance "blind date dance" under the arrangement of their mothers. In the director's lens, there is not that much seriousness. It seems to H that the director told us an adult fairy tale. The protagonist of the story crossed the mountains and crossed the ocean to defeat Godzilla-like monsters to defend his love. Then finally, let our film have a fairy tale ending: from now on, the princesses live happily together forever.

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