Attracted by the trailer, I went to the cinema with two friends from Taiwan to watch the movie today. After they came out, the three people were "dumbfounded." This film is highly rated in North America, but the first reaction of the three of us after watching it was full of question marks. We can understand the director’s intention and the main theme of the film. However, we are used to watching Asian movies in general. From the point of view of people, this film is too weird, right? ? The protagonist of the film, Billie, is a girl who came to the United States with her parents when she was six years old. She has a completely westernized mindset. She also communicates with her parents in English at home, and even walks slightly hunched, which is completely in line with the image of certain American teenagers. Then the other protagonist, Billie’s grandma, is a traditional Chinese grandma, kind and kind, calling Billie a silly boy, practicing qigong "ha" and "ha" downstairs in the community, wanting to give her own The grandson organizes a very elegant wedding and will give Billy a red envelope. The film introduces the conflict between Chinese and Western cultures, or in other words, introduces contemporary Chinese society to Westerners, using many shots. For example, the smog in the sky after Billie got off the plane, all the residential buildings in the city looked exactly the same, the barbecue booths full of smoke and dust at night, the newly built hotel but the elevator broke down, and she asked a lot of her family when she helped Billie carry luggage. The hotel waiter in the situation, brought the mahjong big money with the lady, the lobster was ordered at the wedding but did not know why it became a crab restaurant, the wedding staff who looked down and swiped their mobile phones when changing shifts, the massage parlor clerk who managed to call the guests uniformly beautiful... …Wait and so on, the places that may be used as background or unimportant shots in ordinary Chinese movies seem to be a little deliberate in this movie. Excluding these deliberate shots, influenced by the different cultures of China and the West, the views of Billie’s family collided, and the presentation was also very straightforward. Billie’s mother said how good America is, and Billie’s aunt said that China also has China’s good. Billie’s mother retorted that you still want your child to study in the United States. The aunt said that I just want him to have more opportunities. He may come back soon... Billy’s uncle who settled in Japan said, no matter we Wherever we went, we were all Chinese, but Billie’s father said that, strictly speaking, we are Americans, with American passports... At the dinner table, Billie said that the United States actually has many problems, which seemed very weak, and finally Someone came out and said that we still have to think about our mother (that is, Billie’s grandma). The most in-depth sentence in the whole film should be Billie’s uncle who settled in Japan, telling Billie that Westerners think that human life All are individuals, while Orientals believe that life belongs to the collective, to the family, and to the society. We didn’t tell grandma her true condition because we were helping She bears this pain together. If you tell her, you will actually get rid of the burden and responsibility, and let your grandma bear the sadness alone (probably it means this, I can’t remember the original words). The ending of the film is actually to the end. Billie didn't tell her grandma about her condition, but returned to the United States after attending the wedding and returned to her original life. This film, starred by Chinese people, is full of deliberate shots and straightforward descriptions. Although 90% of the dialogue is in Chinese, it has achieved success in North America and even broke the box office record of the 4 single halls of the Fulian. Many people around me think that the reason why Chinese movies have always been subjected to Waterloo in Western countries is because they don’t like watching subtitles? Is it because they are not interested in Chinese culture? But through the success of this film that has been talking about Chinese families, we discovered that they were not uninterested, but the film we exported before. The description of our culture was too subtle, and it was so subtle that we all need to move. Some brains came to experience, we felt very good after experiencing it, very good, very touching, but for Westerners, they did not understand it from the beginning. The Taiwanese boy who watched the movie with me said that I can understand what the film wants to say, but it is too superficial. I told him that it may be because you think it is superficial, so it has a very high evaluation among foreigners. high. I am not very willing to use the word superficial to describe this film. As I said before, it is just too deliberate, too straightforward, and too suitable for Westerners. It may be a good film for Westerners to understand Chinese culture, but as someone who already knows Chinese culture very well, and has learned some Western culture through many works or personally, it may be really "superficial". . All in all, it has answered my doubts about what kind of Chinese movies Westerners like to watch. It can be said that this movie has brought me a harvest. interest? But through the success of this film that has been talking about Chinese families, we discovered that they were not uninterested, but the film we exported before. The description of our culture was too subtle, and it was so subtle that we all need to move. Some brains came to experience, we felt very good after experiencing it, very good, very touching, but for Westerners, they did not understand it from the beginning. The Taiwanese boy who watched the movie with me said that I can understand what the film wants to say, but it is too superficial. I told him that it may be because you think it is superficial, so it has a very high evaluation among foreigners. high. I am not very willing to use the word superficial to describe this film. As I said before, it is just too deliberate, too straightforward, and too suitable for Westerners. It may be a good film for Westerners to understand Chinese culture, but as someone who already knows Chinese culture very well, and has learned some Western culture through many works or personally, it may be really "superficial". . All in all, it has answered my doubts about what kind of Chinese movies Westerners like to watch. It can be said that this movie has brought me a harvest. interest? But through the success of this film that has been talking about Chinese families, we discovered that they were not uninterested, but the film we exported before. The description of our culture was too subtle, and it was so subtle that we all need to move. Some brains came to experience, we felt very good after experiencing it, very good, very touching, but for Westerners, they did not understand it from the beginning. The Taiwanese boy who watched the movie with me said that I can understand what the film wants to say, but it is too superficial. I told him that it may be because you think it is superficial, so it has a very high evaluation among foreigners. high. I am not very willing to use the word superficial to describe this film. As I said before, it is just too deliberate, too straightforward, and too suitable for Westerners. It may be a good film for Westerners to understand Chinese culture, but as someone who already knows Chinese culture very well, and has learned some Western culture through many works or personally, it may be really "superficial". . All in all, it has answered my doubts about what kind of Chinese movies Westerners like to watch. It can be said that this movie has brought me a harvest.
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