1. Wedge
Many people think that their family members are weird. Many people don't like the life style of the people, things, and things of their native families. Some people simply do not accept their native family, and feel that their lives are unlucky, pitiful, frustrated, and miserable, that's why they "born here and grow up here." It's as if the protagonist Tula is confused, why? What you eat, drink, wear, use, live, talk, cook, marry, give birth... are all Greek!
There are also people who cannot accept themselves. They always make themselves too ugly, too fat, too thin, too stupid, too poor, too boring, too pitiful, and then complain about themselves under the self-label. This kind of person uses his immutable self to certify the label that others have put on him. It's like Tula, a 30-year-old ugly woman, Tula who can't get married, Tula who "you look very old", a Tula who is extremely Greek through and through. It's as if Tula said her mother "My mother always cooks vegetables, and the dishes are filled with warmth, intelligence and guilt."
2. Tula from Greece and her
father Tula, with her mother and siblings We, the Greek family composed of three generations, tried their best to preserve and reflect the folklore, ethics and life style of Greece. In America’s Greece, with Tula’s father as the core, the Greek-style life circle extends to every inch of Tula’s self. From 6-year-old Tula, 12-year-old Tula, to 30-year-old Tula. Tula resents himself for being so Greek, and for the endless years of such Greece. She is tired of the Tula of the past, she is tired of the Tula of the present, and she is even more desperate for the Tula of the future.
The first time I saw him, I looked through the window and kept seeing him at the table. She was stunned in front of Ian "like a Greek god" Tula said. She heard that they were in college, and after returning to God, Tula decided to go to college. With the help of his mother, Tula left his father’s Greece and began to look for "his own Tula." Tula after school, Tula who started to make-up, put on contact lenses, changed her hairstyle and clothes, and turned her mood into a pretty and charming Tula. After winning a job in a travel agency, she officially bid farewell to the ugly girl who carried the plate and bid farewell to Greece, and she found her own Tula. Who detonated this war? The antidote to Tula's soul is a man---Ian.
3. Own Tullah and Tullah's Greece
Because of the wedding "My Greek Wedding", Tula accepted Greece-her native family. The man who infused Tula's soul antidote---it was Ian. Ian fell in love with Tula, he looked in from the window, saw her for the second time, and saw Tula from Olympia Travel Agency. This time, she looked like a Greek god by him. In order to love her, "I became a Greek" Ian said. He anointed her and was baptized. He worked hard for her to integrate into the Greek relatives and culture. He even changed the American wedding of the village club to the Greek wedding of the Orthodox church. Just as Ian and Ian’s parents were in the process of integrating into her native family, she also gradually awakened the love between her parents and Greece. After marriage, she sent her children to learn Greek, just like her childhood, this is "Tula's Greece."
What is there in Tula's Greece? All are exactly the same as Tula in Greece. The ecology, environment, people and interaction mode of the whole family have not changed. What has changed is the one-way attitude and value connection of Tula. Tula without Ian, Greece is like an octopus, controlling and binding her past, present and future. She just looked at herself pityingly, like others staring into the distance pityingly. She didn't want to escape, she didn't want to change. She has no motivation to change, nor the ability to change. She thinks so, and everyone else thinks so.
There are many people around us. Their lives are like Tula in Greece. They feel that all their sorrows come from the outside world and others. Tula gets the medicine, she has Ian. In Ian's eyes, she saw her love and a beautiful self. "Why do you love me?" Ian replied, "After I met you, I came alive." "You are so fun, you are beautiful and funny!" In fact, after Tula met Ian, she also came alive. She is rich in spirit and self-satisfied. When facing the same Greek and Greek relatives, she not only does not suffer, but satisfies the mustard seed. She ate Greece and became the Greece of Tula. Can everyone get their own "Ian"?
4. The fruit
woman is an orange, and the man is an apple. How to change from "an orange is an orange, and an apple is an apple" to both of them are "fruits"? Oranges have always been afraid of being eaten by apples, and Tula's father became the patron saint of oranges. "How could she treat me like this? Why is she not filial?" He is not just a sad and angry father, he is wailing for the broken orange. Why did Dad see "fruit"? When he saw that Ian and his parents had put down their apples and turned into oranges, he released the "orange persistence."
The antidote to my father’s mind is also Ian. Ian represents the melting pot of American culture and also shows the difference between the big culture and the small culture. Ian is not limited to the subculture of his native family, but bravely integrates and reveals the subculture of Tula's native family. The opposition between the two subcultures, large and small, lies in allowing small subcultures to be independent. The amazing thing is that the small subculture can find its own foothold in the large subculture. This is not just a love between individuals, but a demonstration of the capacity for tolerance and self-limitation in culture.
When this characteristic contained in the culture is integrated into the most affectionate love, people can inspire each other to become better people. The opposition between people and oneself, family and culture can also be dispelled intangible because of the abundance of the individual. For contemporary human beings in the impulse of multiculturalism, the most beautiful thing is to learn the uniqueness of multiculturalism, and to love and sympathize with the people in front of them sincerely. Ignoring the true love of the people in front of you and the days of staying together day and night, and clinging to the regrets of the past and the uncertainty of the future, paranoidly playing certain outdated roles, and knowingly bad old habits have always been the biggest of contemporary people. sorrow. Hope that everyone will meet his "Ian" and everyone has his "Greek wedding".
5. Comedy
This film is a comedy. Everyone enjoys watching this film diligently, passing through Tula's life lightly and comfortably, flying over the three generations of Tula happily. The smooth beats and beautiful music fully interpret the three transitions of life. Ian’s love for Tula, the love for the purpose of satisfying Tula’s needs, gave him Tula and a new self, and allowed him to have Tula’s Greece without losing his own America. How can a person become "Ian"? After watching the film, there is only one hope. I hope I can have an "Ian" and become someone else's "Ian". Because Ian turned all tragedies into comedies.
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