I liked it very much the first time I watched it in the early 2000s, and I finally rewatched it last night. In the middle of the epidemic, the city was locked down six times in Mo Village, and my grandmother passed away alone in China, and I had to continue to work and worry about the serotonin of other people because of my own serotonin exhaustion.
However, revisited the side from start to finish. I cried and laughed, and I didn't break down again because of this, and it should be a celebration to make a note here.
The plot description outside of the movie family is a bit blunt. I can't sit still at the nonsense between the hotel receptionist and Billie. I really want to highlight the difference between Eastern and Western cultures. It makes sense that the front desk wants to chat, but the Americans mistakenly think that he wants a tip , So I touched my wallet but the RMB that I just got off the plane for was only 100 yuan. This is the embarrassing interaction? And the male doctor who returned from the studio next door was even more powerless to complain. But the director tried his best to keep the narrative of his family, perhaps unintentionally, but the details are rich and layered, and the real aftertaste is endless.
1. The age of the family is a mystery: if Billie's father in red underwear is in his natal year, his daughter is in his early 30s and he can't be younger at 61, and there is a seaside uncle on top of him---grandma should be in his 80s. So how old is my aunt? --- The interaction between the two sisters does not have the sense of the gap between the eldest sister and the mother, and the difference can't be more than ten years old - but the "little uncle" who suddenly appeared later is still working hard in Shenzhen and has not retired? ?
Could it be that the little aunt was in love with her brother and sister at an older age? It's avant-garde! The strange eyes from the social family may explain why the younger uncle left the country alone, and he didn't appear at the family's weddings. Seeing Billie's mother's surprised and reluctant expression, everyone might think that the two broke up early if the little aunt didn't mention it—
but! Although they are in a long-distance relationship, they are okay, and they are still calm and calm: I said that you don't need to worry about it. Auntie Saigao!
2. Grandma herself is a peony in the army, and she is not inferior to a group of stinky men. She has actually been on the battlefield and has been injured (no wonder the old comrades still want to confess after half a century). . There was only a photo of grandma and Billie in front of the phone on the living room table. When grandma finally gave Billie a red envelope, the black and white wedding photos of the revolutionary couple on the wall were really not made from Awkwafina's photos? The long face and the eyebrows look very similar from a distance. In the studio, the grandmother insisted on taking a close photo with Aiko Haohao. In fact, she should have taken an artistic photo package with her eldest granddaughter in person and with her appearance and personality.
3. Billie's father was able to speak well when he was in the United States, and he was quite confident in inviting foreigners to have dinner and tell jokes, but when he heard that his mother was sick, he felt dizzy. Billie's mother didn't care about her husband's family, and she didn't like weddings and weddings. She was worried that Billie would be embarrassed by her parents if she paid for air tickets and her self-esteem would be frustrated. One of them was sluggish and the other was anxious, and they couldn't care about other people's feelings at all because of their own concerns, and they didn't even realize that grandma loved the eldest granddaughter the most?
Billie's mother acted really well. The image of an old woman who has suffered a lot and is full of grievances and grievances is simply vivid. On the way to the airport, her tears were not because of her mother-in-law's sadness. Her own father passed away. If she didn't cry during the funeral, she probably wouldn't have a good relationship with her other relatives. This time in the car should be the last time she saw her hometown.
4. Billie lived in her grandmother's house when she was young when she returned to China, so this time she was wondering why she was suddenly asked to stay in a hotel, but the uncle Haibin hurriedly took her away. And grandma actually boasted that the hotel did not let her stay in the hotel - it is estimated that the vacant room that Billie could live in in the past is now vacated by Lao Li, who has fallen out of favor. He blushes to make sure that he will not say anything embarrassing. Grandma and Uncle Haibin's mother and son reacted very quickly to deal with emergencies, and letting Haohao marry Aiko's family and go back to China to hold the wedding as an excuse is probably the idea that Uncle Haibin came up with in a short period of time. Parents are stronger.
5. Although Haohao is the eldest grandson, his position in this family is similar to that of Lao Li. He is a good-tempered, aphasiatic, and instrumental male. The whole movie, the seaside uncle has no personal interaction with his son. Billie talked a lot about being an adult, good and bad. It's hard to imagine what grandma liked about Lao Li in the past, but this lack of advantages may be the strength: maybe many people are looking for a partner just for someone they can control and despise, and the unbearable Lao Li It will not affect the actual interests of this family, and the younger generation at home and abroad can rest assured.
Haohao is lucky after all, Aiko is more low-key than him and may be very virtuous, so the last cry when he was drunk was because he was sad for his unfamiliar grandma, or when he saw the end of the song, everyone threw their crab shells away and left. This kind of patience and effort, which is like a clay figurine, is actually meaningless, and where does the sadness come from?
6. Speaking of Aunt Billie! This sub-line is so interesting that the whole story shines because of it (what a bad taste-_-) My aunt is well-proportioned and well-dressed, and my uncle is also a decent person. He should have a little status and a little money in the local area. The style of the little aunt and the little uncle looked like she was already lying down at a glance. It is still doubtful what kind of kinship the aunt is related to this family, but one thing is certain: the aunt and grandma are completely unrelated by blood.
The quarrel between my aunt and Billie's mother on the round table is my favorite scene. It is completely out of line with the eastern and western culture and grand narratives (to be honest, who is full and supports the big picture all day long). The two women, full of resentment, fought each other over family matters.
Grandma is not alone and there is no shortage of helpers by her side. Although there is an old Li in the house, although she is old and deaf, she can still do it by pouring water and washing her feet in daily life. Upstairs, there is also a auntie who has a clear mind and a clear mind. Major events can also be finalized, and the nanny and aunt around him have never stopped. Therefore, in the family, the aunt's care for the grandmother should be a reassurance arranged by the two brothers who went abroad. eg.
- Aunt Gao darkened and poked dirty hands and feet
-Grandma has paranoia and suspects that Aunt Gao's blackening has made a lot of trouble
-Grandma is mildly demented, Lao Li pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger to reveal the true face of old bacon and deceives the real estate license
- Grandma needs to replace her imported hip joint when she breaks her leg when she goes upstairs and downstairs. She has to take the time to pack up and get on a plane to go to a big city for surgery or contact a famous doctor to come to Changchun to fly a knife.
However, for the past 20 years, my grandmother's side has been calm. Seeing that my grandmother is about to pass away, my aunt is in a hurry. I don't blame her for not being in a hurry. When my grandmother passed away, her chips will be gone. Although she has been worrying about these years, it can be recorded in the credit book. In fact, there shouldn't be much trouble for her to go into battle and settle it in person. Maybe Haiyan Haiyan and the two brothers got off the plane and she clearly proposed that she had no credit and hard work for more than 20 years, and that she should be honored by arranging her son Abao to study in the United States as soon as possible. After a long time, the two families in a foreign country are far away, and it will be difficult for them to acknowledge their accounts. Judging from the tone of my aunt's tone, it's not that she yearns for foreign countries, and she may want to emphasize that her family is no worse than you in China, but insisting on asking her son to study abroad may really feel that if she doesn't ask for it now, she will lose her life.
You can also imagine Billie's mother's resentment: 1. Billie's parents left the country first, and the seaside uncle who walked behind estimated that he had reached some verbal agreement with his aunt, and the aunt would take care of the grandmother whose two sons were traveling far away, and therefore would also be compensated accordingly. 2. Today, when my aunt asks for the compensation to be fulfilled by the way of my son studying abroad, the family in the United States has to pay the bill, and the uncle Haibin has nothing to do with it. Look at Billie's unbearable virtue. The burden will be on Billie's mother's shoulders.
Buying a junior high school student's study abroad guardianship order will cost a lot, and it is not a matter of money at all. Even if you have the ability to get into a boarding school, when the school closes during the holidays, the burden is still kicked to the local guardians. Not only does she have to manage food, drink, but also to educate her. If a single seedling has three long and two short ones, he can't afford to cut his belly, and he can't be an offering to his ancestors. Seeing Billie's mother like that, how could she swallow her breath? It's no wonder that she is open when the table is round.
A section of the bathing center is also the same grass snake gray line. The aunt made a big treat and didn't bring her Aiko to make a pre-wedding maintenance package together, indicating that the Haibin family couldn't give her anything. But Billie's mother probably knew that her little abacus was already sloppy, and her aunt wouldn't make fun of herself, so she had to curry favor with Billie and Billie's dad. And Billie's words with her aunt during cupping have nothing to do with Eastern and Western values at all. Billie is ignorant but Auntie is very clear. What foreigners want to do with their own will and the right to know, you tell grandma that you are worthy of your conscience, slap your butt and run away after drinking the wedding wine, if grandma can’t hold the bad news, she will have a mental breakdown, and I will not be able to clean up this mess by myself ? I couldn't say this to Billie, so I had to play Tai Chi perfunctorily.
7. Grandma should have a general idea of her condition, but she is not ambiguous and ambiguous. During the wedding banquet, Aunt Gao was sent to fetch the report, consciously or unconsciously, it may be that she wanted to sound the alarm to my aunt: Look at her recent appearance in which it was my turn to sing the leading role, her tail is almost up in the sky! She must be allowed to take care of who is in charge of this family? Seeing that the family was horrified and made concerted efforts to chase after Aunt Gao's interception report in order to continue the play, grandma was convinced that her status was still unshakable, especially the eldest granddaughter who was a little stunned on weekdays actually rushed out to save the scene first. It is more sincere to hold her in the palm of his hand, and he is satisfied.
8. In the end, this thought is a bit big, it should be completely my own mess: Billie's dress at the wedding is still casual (even her mother changed into a petite suit with a waist) to see her full body look running on the street later —1. Billie has an obvious small belly. 2. Below the loose grey T seems to be a slim one piece little black dress. This little black dress is probably the party outfit that Billie usually wears when she hangs out with foreign friends. It is unlucky and unsightly to wear it out for a wedding. It is probably because she was trained by her grandmother or the seaside uncle, and she only brought a small dress when she returned to China. There was no other clothes to change in the drag box, so I had to grab a loose T to cover my belly and a black suit.
above. After talking all the nonsense, I seem to have finally moved forward a little bit.
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