The background of the story is the Chinese community in the United States. In a seemingly ordinary Chinese-style family, Xiaowei is the third generation who grew up with a modern American education and has a free and open mind. Grandpa is deeply influenced by traditional Chinese concepts and is stubborn and conservative. Parents are represented; mothers are in between. The storyline revolves around Xiaowei and his mother, mainly focusing on three things: homosexuality, unmarried advanced pregnancy, and love between siblings with a huge age gap. In the view of conservative Chinese, it can be regarded as a pervert. As soon as the matter was disclosed, the entire Chinese community seemed to explode, and a long confrontation between family members began. After the fierce collision of contradictions between all parties, the most dazzling spark is not the "homosexuality" in the legend, but the top priority - face.
When it comes to the issue of face, it is reflected to different degrees in different cultures in different countries, but once it is compared with China and the entire eastern world, it is nothing but insignificant - this is by no means bragging. First of all, everyone is caught in an overwhelming network of relationships. There are relatives, friends, colleagues, and neighbors close by, work partners and netizens a little further away, and then there are relatives, friends, colleagues, and neighbors of these people. , work partners, netizens... , there are no boundaries, so that even people who have no relationship with them are very likely to become nodes in their relationship network. This is particularly evident in the film, a Chinese-American community that talks big and small. Xiaowei asked her grandmother, "How did she know she (mother) was pregnant?" The grandmother said, "The receptionist at the clinic, It happens to be the wife of your grandfather's former student." Xiaowei shook his head and said, "Chinese people can meet acquaintances wherever they go." In addition, everyone inevitably lives in public opinion. People, who are not told behind their backs." Talking about others may be out of good intentions or malicious attacks, but more often it should be out of boring gossip - gentlemen and wives spontaneously group together at the party to exchange the gossip news they have. The news then spreads exponentially, far more efficiently than the best news outlets. They even use their own values to evaluate the right and wrong of others. If they unfortunately violate the judgment of mainstream values, it seems to be doomed to the tragic fate of "spitting stars crushing people". For the sake of a good image in the eyes of others, in order to meet the judgment of mainstream values, the "face" project came into being. The purpose is to save face at all costs. A sage once said, "People are not free because of the eyes of others."
But life is our own after all, and other people's opinions can be used as a reference, but the final decision should be in our own hands - we really don't need to neglect ourselves in order to please others. The happy ending of "Face" expresses this. the opinion of. But real life may not be as simple and easy as it appears in the movie. The more realistic situation may be as shown in "Dead Poets Society". People can plant the ideal of freedom in their hearts, but they have to face it. The cruel reality, tempering the will in the confrontation between ideal and reality, obtains short-term happiness, but it will not be eternal happiness.
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