The face runs through the entire play from start to finish.
Xiaowei is the same as her mother, but not the same. Xiaowei's girlfriend hopes that Xiaowei can kiss her in front of everyone; Xiaowei's mother hopes that her boyfriend can stand up and tell everyone about their relationship.
Xiaowei and her girlfriend need to take care of face when they are in a relationship; her mother needs to take into account her father's face when she gets married; her mother needs to take into account her face when she becomes pregnant.
Just like Xiaowei and her girlfriend talking through the fence, face, worldliness, vision, like a fence, hinder the two.
Face is the thread that drives the plot and is at the heart of the discussion throughout the film. There is a lot of Chinese traditional thinking of "loving face". Among them, the discussion of acquaintances around is also a kind of booster to make people love face.
The ending was a bit of a surprise. Xiaowei put down her face and said "fuck them", and her mother dared to tell the fact that she didn't want to marry that person in front of her father. Probably because of her experience with young lovers, her mother accepted that her daughter liked the same sex, and encouraged her daughter to pursue true love. Maybe the mother doesn't want her daughter to be restrained because of face like herself.
At the end, the mother hopes that she will hug her grandson sooner, which is also a happy ending.
The film isn't just limited to same-sex romances, but moms and young lovers. Do you still dare to love bravely under the eyes of others and in front of your face? The ending of the movie is certain. Yes, leave them alone.
"I love you, and you love me, isn't that enough?"
This sentence is not only said to my mother, but also to Xiaowei and everyone.
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