This is a movie where the sub-line is more interesting than the main line.
At least judging from the various film reviews I have seen so far, the audience's interest in discussing cultural differences is obviously greater than the slightly dull case itself. Everyone focuses on the incompatibility of the red-necked old beauty played by Matt Damon in France. The film also spends a lot of space to reflect the cultural differences between Europe and the United States: whether it is dress, language, communication style, thinking style, interest Hobbies, immigrant groups, and even political stances (once a friend of the heroine asked Matt Damon: Did you vote for Trump? Matt Damon didn’t answer directly, just said that I have a record of arrest, so I didn’t vote ; once the hostess refused to continue talking to the racist bar owner, while Matt Damon thought it should and said "I work around people like that").
But when I saw the male and female protagonists and their children praying hand in hand before dinner, I knew that no matter how different Europe and the United States were, they could always come together and reach a compromise in the end. No matter how different they may be, or even completely at the extremes of their political stance, they are still able to connect two different families through 5 seconds of prayer. This may not be the subject of the film, and I am not trying to amplify the power of religious belief. However, the values, historical views, world views and even identity embodied by religions will eventually influence you subtly, to judge who is "your own" and who is "outsider".
But as a Chinese, even if you have fully integrated into European and American society, even including religious beliefs, what they recognize and like may be only you, not the country, ethnicity or even the culture behind you. As for an American, even if everything is incompatible with Europeans, or even disgusting, this will still not affect the Europeans' identification with the country and nation behind him-because they all belong to the "West", and the "West" It represents the increasingly close collective identity of Europeans and Americans from the beginning of the Crusades to the era of great navigation, the two world wars and even after the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Therefore, even though we are the top two trading partners of almost all major European countries, Europeans feel that we are a threat to make them "economically dependent"; and even if the United States openly eavesdrops on the special lines of European countries, and even the leaders of France and Germany, But Europeans still feel that "Europe and the United States are allies with common values".
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