It’s hard to imagine that this movie is a work more than 20 years ago, especially when I watched a digitally restored version, which is even more incredible.
Director Ang Lee’s thinking seems to have always been ahead of the public!
*****
Strictly speaking, this is my first Ang Lee.
I have always had doubts about Director Ang Lee, and it seems to be resolved at the same time after watching this movie.
And my misunderstanding of Taiwanese movies disappeared in an instant after watching a few works directed by Yang Dechang and Li Ang.
Although I sometimes feel emotional, I still hold on to hope, hoping that Taiwanese films can return to such a peak.
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After watching "The Banquet", there are actually a lot of disappointments and emotions.
Weitong and Simon are gay lovers.
In order to fulfill Weitong's parents' wishes, Weitong and Weiwei had a "fake wedding", but the development of the story became more and more uncontrollable.
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There are too many topics worth discussing in this film, and I choose the most intriguing "comrade topics" to share.
The relationship between Wei Tong and Simon has always been very stable, and such "stability" is based on deception.
I think just like many comrade friends, in order to meet the expectations of their parents and society, they choose to deceive, because as long as they "deceive", they can temporarily avoid some problems and censures.
However, a person cannot tell a lie for a lifetime. At the age when it is time to get married, Weitong's parents have also begun to urge the marriage, so in order to "round the lie", Weitong decided to tell another lie-fake marriage.
I originally thought that Wei Tong could live with Simon as long as he survived two weeks and his parents returned to Taiwan. However, things were unpredictable and the fake show was actually done. Wei Wei got pregnant with Wei Wei, and at the same time he and Simon. It fell out.
Although the story has come to a successful conclusion, I wonder if the "knots" in the hearts of these five people are also like a happy ending, untied together?
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In the film, there is a segment that I feel very touched.
When Wei Tong’s mother knew that Wei Tong’s partner was actually Simon, she was very unacceptable.
She said many and many possibilities, and assumed many, many impossibility. It
may be that Simon has damaged Wei Tong, it
may be that Wei Tong’s previous love experience has made Wei Tong afraid of girls,
it may be corrected as long as he is treated, and it
may only be a child. At birth, Wei Tong can begin to love girls... There are so many possibilities.
At this time, Wei Wei said: "I thought so before, but it's impossible."
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most unexpected, probably Towards the end of the film, Wei Tong’s father began to speak English,
and this lie that seemed to be close to perfect to his father was suddenly burst. Surprisingly, after the bubble burst, it remained almost perfect. The shape, without any waves.
Everything seems ordinary, not surprising at all.
The scene ends when Weitong and the three watch their parents walk towards the airport.
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Suddenly I am a little confused.
Often we will pour more thoughts on our mother, compared to my father who is much stranger.
In this film, Wei Tong is the same.
When he could no longer play the fake marriage drama, he said to his mother: "I am a gay, Simon is my partner." It
is catharsis, catharsis can no longer bear the pressure.
At this time, my mother added "Don't let Dad know."
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But in the end,
Dad is the one who chooses to accept everything, and Mom is the one who never accepts it.
Remember, the last scene was the two old men walking towards the airport. The
carpet was red, like a wedding banquet.
Mom cried. Dad asked her why she was crying.
Mom said: Because she was happy.
Dad also said: I am also happy.
However, whether it is facing what has happened in the past few weeks, or just this sentence, my
mother is telling a lie, and my father is telling the truth.
However, whether it is the viewer or Wei Tong himself, he always feels that his mother may be able to understand, and his father is the one who has been pushed to the farthest.
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In real life, we seem to be the same.
But, will it,
will it be true that dads are just bad words?
But as long as it is the children's choice, they can always support rationally.
I thought about it, maybe.
Just like Weitong's father, he would rather pretend that he is the one kept in the dark, so that at least the whole family will be fulfilled.
Dads seem to have always played this role: silently and silently, guarding the whole family.
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Finally, I want to say something in particular: about the grandest and most important wedding banquet scene in this film.
Pay attention to it. In fact, Ang Lee himself has a cameo, and I think he asked himself to say the most important sentence of the whole movie:
"You are seeing the result of five thousand years of sexual repression."
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For Of course, this sentence can be interpreted in many, many ways,
and I think in a certain way, perhaps Ang Lee wants to use this scene to break the stereotype of ordinary Westerners about the Eastern world.
For a long time, Eastern countries have been representatives of "conservative", and this sentence may be just like Li Ang's temperament, a warm, non-thorny protest.
Although that scene was a wedding banquet, it was an occasion where men and women stayed together for a lifetime,
But as far as the whole movie is concerned, that kind of repression is not limited to men and women. There is also great pressure between the same sex. For Orientals, it is shrouded in such a "conservative" atmosphere, any love It's not easy anymore.
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I think I will finish Ang Lee's "Father Trilogy" together in the near future. If I have a chance, I would like to watch this film again. I should have a deeper impression when that time comes. .
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Digression: I
don't know when to wait, everyone can stop lying about love.
I really hope that day can come soon.
LOVE WINS FOREVER
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