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At the beginning of this year, a film telling the story of a Chinese family stunned the world at the Sundance International Film Festival.
It has been nominated for Best Feature Film by Sundance, Audience Choice Award at the Atlanta Film Festival, Best Feature Film at the Los Angeles Asia Pacific Film Festival and many other awards.
The Chinese female director of the film, Wang Ziyi, was hailed as "one of the 25 rising female directors" by IndieWire, an authoritative film review website in the United States.
She was also selected as "one of the 10 most noteworthy directors" by the famous entertainment media Variety.
This is "Don't Tell Her", which is scheduled to land on the domestic big screen on November 22.
This story is very Chinese and family-oriented.
The heroine Billie (Awkwafina) is a Chinese girl who grew up in New York.
One day, Billie suddenly learned that her grandmother with whom she had a deep relationship was diagnosed with terminal cancer in her hometown of Changchun. This accident caused the family to rush back to their hometown from all directions and reunite.
Because of the belief that "it is not the disease that really defeats people, but the fear of disease", the elders decided to hide the disease from their grandmother.
Should my grandma know about this?
The huge cultural difference between East and West makes Billie confused.
Like most family films, this one doesn't have any special lighting skills.
The director just told the whole story flatly and completely.
But there is truth in the bland.
And the truth is precisely the biggest success factor of this film.
First, this story of love and deceit is real.
It has happened and still continues to happen to director and screenwriter Wang Ziyi.
Empathizing with her, she made a good movie by borrowing this reality of pain and absurdity.
Until the latest interview, she still didn't have a clear answer as to whether the lie about her condition was correct. "I don't know what's right," she said. "What I do know is that this lie cost me three months with my grandmother in China. It gave me all these experiences with my family that I wouldn't normally have. . But on a moral level, I'm still conflicted."
Second, despite being a Chinese director who grew up in New York, she still keenly captures the various contradictions that can arise in an ordinary Chinese family.
It shows the Chinese-style parental status, the contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the comparison of family members, and the consistent denial attitude of Chinese parents to their children.
As for this contradiction, the trailer seems to be deliberately avoiding it.
The clips of family dinners circulating on the Internet have also been officially withdrawn, leaving only the warm publicity part.
Prejudice or smear? not at all.
Because this is our life, these contradictions are real. Especially the family dinner scene is really the finishing touch. The atmosphere was really unpleasant and suffocating.
Unfamiliar family members are forced to act as close family members under the huge differences in ideas and thinking.
For me at least, it's a nightmare.
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