The first review written on Douban gave an almost unbearable movie.

Maymie 2022-03-24 09:03:20


Does it end at midnight in Barcelona? The absurd comedy ends.

cheap. very cheap.
What I can see from this movie is that the Chinese go deep into the bone marrow, into every inch of skin, and into the soul. So cheap that I can barely watch this movie.
1 hour, the first pause.
After 6 minutes, the second pause.
It must be admitted that without personal experience, there would not be such a big reaction.

"You are seeing the results of five thousand years of sexual repression."

I seem to see more. I have witnessed the five thousand years of long-standing inheritance of the Chinese nation. I was born in a year that China is most reluctant to mention, an era of the most turbulent thinking. This may be doomed to what this generation must endure. Inheriting the long history and tradition of the Chinese nation, Confucius and Mencius thought, and it is called Ayi Qucong. Inherit the major achievements of reform and opening up, open to the outside world and reform internally.
According to Confucius and Mencius, it means "benevolence" and "propriety". Kill yourself? Repentance?

Pull away. Tradition instills selfishness on the next generation. Children are their investment, their tool. We brought you into this world without your consent, in the face of abundance and poverty, in the face of hope and fear, in the face of equality and oppression, in the face of freedom and bondage. We are killed by the restraint of tradition.
We don't know what we like. What we like is what they told me I should like, and what they instilled in me I should like. I might like games, but that's not what I had to do.
We don't get it. Their so-called concerns are based on their own ideas. Understanding itself is nothing but the sum of misunderstandings.
We may settle for a lifetime in tradition. We may struggle all our lives with our traditions and our beliefs. We may be lost in our beliefs for a lifetime.
But we can't blame anyone.

I may not have a Wei Tong career. I may not meet Wei Tong's pursuit, and I may not be able to obtain Wei Tong's happiness. We all have to face the wedding feast.

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Extended Reading
  • Dandre 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    Another bitter tear to see. Gui Yalei has a good temperament. So the solution to this situation is to get a girl pregnant and start a happy threesome?

  • Kiana 2022-04-24 07:01:22

    "It's Simon who cooks, so Dad washes the dishes." Chinese-Western fusion is as simple as that.

The Wedding Banquet quotes

  • Wai-Tung Gao: I don't know, we should have moved you out.

    Simon: I'll survive.

    Wai-Tung Gao: Not if Wei Wei keeps cooking.

  • Justice of the Peace: Okay, now you: "I, Wee-Wee..."

    Wei-Wei: Wee-Wee.

    Justice of the Peace: "... take you, Wai Tung..."

    Wei-Wei: Wee-Wee.

    Justice of the Peace: Okay. "To be my wedded husband... to have and to hold..."

    Wei-Wei: Holding to have, husband, mine...

    Justice of the Peace: "... for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer..."

    Wei-Wei: Better and richer, no poorer.

    Justice of the Peace: "... in sickness and in health, till death do us part."

    Wei-Wei: Till sickness and death.

    Justice of the Peace: Groovy. Rings.