"Don't Tell Her": 7 points Recommended crowd: overseas Chinese, Chinese
This film gives me the greatest feeling of comfort. This kind of film showing the difference between Chinese and Western cultures rarely does not have much curiosity about oriental culture. If you want to compare a movie, it should be Ang Lee's "The Wedding Banquet", both of which used weddings to express the uniqueness of traditional Chinese culture.
The director Wang Ziyi's performance in this film is not at all like the Chinese who grew up in the United States, and the temperament of the film is more like a Chinese independent film. This film cleverly uses the perspective of a loved one suffering from cancer to interpret the differences between China and the West. Cancer is a very serious matter in any country, and the views on cancer on both sides are the biggest conflict in the film.
What's interesting is that when we thought that a theme like cancer would make people on both sides develop fierce conflicts, the director used a very life-like form to resolve this conflict. Life is also the biggest advantage of this movie. Those soliciting customers in front of the airport, the men and women playing mahjong in the room, the family's conversation around a table, and the waiters doing nothing at the wedding, all these details are deepened. The reality of the story.
The film essentially tells the story of Chinese people who are overseas and find their roots. The vast majority of overseas Chinese are troubled by their identity. They have yellow skin and Chinese names, but they are very unfamiliar with their hometown. This kind of confusion is brought out step by step by the protagonist biliy. The final method used in the film is to let the protagonist accept the special culture of China little by little. In the end, the concealment from the grandmother is, in a sense, choosing to favor the Chinese culture. The final ending is also very intriguing. Biliy stands on the street in the United States where people come and go, and looks extraordinarily lonely, which exactly represents the local environment of overseas Chinese.
If this film can dig deeper into the identity of Chinese Americans, I believe it will be more profound. At present, I personally think that the biggest problem is that the handling of many places is too superficial, and the emotions of many characters are directly expressed by the characters, while the Chinese are a very implicit ethnic group, and many lines are repeated over and over again, which is very unChinese. , to give the simplest example, the controversial topic about the Chinese at the dinner table, the topic was very thoughtful, but it was too straightforward. The Chinese happen to be the most respectable people, especially in front of relatives and friends. Be more restrained.
This film has won a high reputation in the United States, and the box office is also good enough. The appearance of such a film has a certain positive effect on all Chinese. Last year's "Crazy Rich Asians" was one, and this year's "Don't Tell Her" is also one. I hope that there will be more and more Chinese films like this in the future, and they will open up a world in the world.
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