Watching the American drama "this is us" is entirely because of "Please Answer 1988". I originally wanted to see what the so-called American version of 1988 looked like, but I was surprised to see that the cultural and emotional differences between the East and the West are so great that I couldn't help it. I want to write.
The first difference is the position of the parents in the family. Although "Reply 1988" is Korean, I think the description of family love is completely in line with Chinese families. A very strange thing is that in China it seems that men are strong and women are weak, especially in ancient China, men could have three wives and four concubines, study and be an official, while women could only obey the four virtues and bow to the knees. It seems that the father is the head of the family, but in fact, the mother is the most important role in a family. filial piety is generally done to the mother, and the father is to deal with it hastily. When a big man like Li Kui begs for mercy, it is also said that there is an old mother at home , I have never heard of a family whose father was successful in begging for mercy, but an old lady has the final say in a big family, such as the mother Jia of "A Dream of Red Mansions", and the reason why "A Dream of Red Mansions" is great is because it was a Chinese 2000 The epitome of feudal society. "Reply 1988" portrays different mothers, gentle, strong and irritable. Although they do not earn money, they are the backbone of a family. A Ze without a mother is always more pitiful than Shan Yu without a father. We Chinese have deep feelings for mothers. The Yangtze River is the mother and the Yellow River is the mother's school. No one calls their own school the father's school, and no one calls the Yangtze and the Yellow River the father's river. Yi Zhongtian once said that the more he read Zhu Ziqing's "The Back", the more he felt that it was a father figure like a mother. It can be seen that the mother is the first in our Chinese family. In the United States, which is the opposite of our widowed marriage and fatherless family education, the father is the first, and he affects the entire growth of the child. The three adults in "this is us" recall the father's The shadow, the courage of the father, the teachings of the father, everything the father has seems to be deeply imprinted into the child's life.
The second difference is home education. It has to be said that Americans are more civilized and progressive in educational philosophy. China's patriarchal son is the oldest in China. In "Reply 1988", parents always let Paula and Deshan celebrate their birthdays together in order to save money. If there are no eggs, they will not give the second daughter to eat. Deshan always wears Paula. The rest of the clothes and ice cream were secretly bought only for my younger brother. Deshan didn't have a twisted mentality. I don't know if it was because we were from the East and we understood this kind of injustice since childhood. This is absolutely impossible to happen in "this is us". For the sake of the children's fairness, they held three different birthday parties and paid attention to the children's psychological growth. I still think Western education is freer and better.
The third difference is marriage. Westerners are cheerful, while Easterners are introverted, which is very different in terms of emotional expression. "This is us" hides a crisis under the marriage full of love mantras, while "Please Reply 1988" shows warmth under the indifferent surface. Westerners emphasize the dream of freedom and soulmate after marriage, while the understanding of Easterners on soulmate is that every family has a hard-to-read scripture. Don't envy others. The right one is the best. The scene where Deshan's mother picks up an umbrella in the rain is very impressive, which interprets our feelings for people who have been together for a lifetime, that is, companionship is the most affectionate confession. "Reply 1988" is afraid of parents remarrying, while "this is us" is afraid of parents not getting married. This is quite a big difference.
Westerners liberate nature, we suppress nature, Westerners inspire desire, we hide desire. There is a question that always bothers me. Why do Americans care so much about mental illness and emphasize fairness? As a result, there seem to be many perversions and various mental illnesses. And we don't really seem to have that many.
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