Don't tell her: a game and blend of Eastern and Western cultures. Please enjoy this Moment with me. This article contains minor spoilers, but absolutely nothing to watch. Because you see life as an individual, this is precisely the cultural difference between the West and the East. Orientals see life as a collective, a family, and a society. ——"Don't Tell Her" What kind of story does this film tell? A family whose members went their separate ways reunited for a wedding in Changchun, China, while hiding her own cancer condition from an elderly grandmother, to see her "one last time". Such stories seem to be commonplace in China. The concept of family plays a pivotal role in Chinese people's life from birth to death. Some cancer patients do not even know their true condition at the end of their lives. In traditional Chinese culture Come, concealing the patient's condition is to protect them, such a big lie. Wrapped in a icing of goodwill. In the film, the grandmother played by national first-class actor Zhao Shuzhen is such a terminal cancer patient. Three generations of the whole big family chose to hide the real condition from her, and even went to the photocopying shop to change the text about cancer to "benign shadow" at the first moment of getting the diagnosis report. However, there is always such a person who will question such a family's behavior of concealing the illness because of cultural differences. Billi, the granddaughter played by the popular Hollywood Asian actress Awkwafina, is such a person. She was separated from Chinese life and influenced by American culture since she was a child, and she neither understood nor agreed with her family's practice. I believe that most American audiences will not understand this approach, nor will they understand the especially strong family-oriented view of the Chinese. But within a few days of living with her grandmother, Bili took those viewers who were difficult to put herself in their shoes, lived with her grandmother, and experienced "Chinese granny-style morning exercises", "relatives quarrel at dinner table", "Chinese-style wedding" In the eyes of the Chinese nation, it is so ordinary that it can no longer be ordinary. During this short farewell trip, the audience also learned that Bili misses her childhood in China and her regret for not being able to see her grandfather for the last time. They also gradually understood that the Chinese people are painstakingly managing their own families. Abandoning traditional Chinese symbols such as "dragon and phoenix", "kung fu", and "ancient costume", and instead choose to use a very ordinary family story in the urban forest where tower cranes stand under the gray sky, and make the whole family very carefully. Audiences around the world can feel the family culture rooted in the hearts of Chinese people for thousands of years. certificate. Although I still hold a conservative, objective and neutral attitude towards "ZZZQ" (for the sake of survival, please Baidu), the birth of "Don't Tell Her" is a medicine, and one may change the Western society's attitude towards the East. Impression medicine.
Finally, can you give "Grandma" a nomination for Best Supporting Actress?
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