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Bartholome 2022-04-21 09:02:51

Personally, I think the movie is really moving because I resonate with it a lot. I would like to share three parts of the film that resonated with me the most.

  1. Grandma: I'm Korean, Korea is very similar to China in terms of culture, especially the way people treat their families.

I also have grandparents who are attentive and lovely. Just like when Billi came from America, every time I see my grandma and grandma, they will say that I am too skinny, and they will make me delicious local food, and they will also say "eat more". Also, I was sad every time I left them. My grandparents always said, "I'll see you soon, don't worry." These examples show what my family has in common with Billi's.

  1. Grandma's illness:

All four of my grandparents are still alive. A few years ago, they were all in good spirits and healthy as young people. But now, some of them are starting to get sick. When I was watching the movie, I was reminded of the situation of my grandparents. So these scenes make me a little sad.

  1. cultural background:

Billi's background reminds me of myself. Although I am Korean, I have lived for many years in an environment with Western culture. For example, I spent many years in international schools in the United States, Hong Kong, and Singapore. So I think my thinking is similar to that of Westerners, but on the other hand, it is undeniable that I am also Eastern. I love oriental food so much.

In general, I can understand the psychological contradictions that Chinese and Western cultures bring to Billi.

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  • Christa 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    I thought that there would be a lot of so-called "foreigners' curiosity", but in fact they handled it quite comfortably and naturally, the emotions were delicate and just right, and I could feel the sincerity. Digression: My grandmother was also in the late stage of lung cancer. At that time, everyone chose to hide it and pretended that it was not a serious illness, but in the end, my grandmother passed away after only half a year, and the dying days were very uncomfortable. When I was watching this film, I always thought of my grandmother, so I couldn’t hold back many bursts of tears. I also wondered if my evaluation of this film would be different if I didn’t have such similar experiences and emotions.

  • Nathaniel 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    Four and a half stars. If you have not grown up in the Northeast, even a native Chinese, it is not easy to appreciate the suffocating feeling of the details of the film. Wang Ziyi really wants to present a sense of art too much, and his techniques are sometimes a bit fancy, sometimes creating a kind of visual embarrassment. But if you think about it a little bit, this kind of choking taste is not at all a disgust for dazzling skills, but your shyness in the face of those too vivid vulgar and indecent. You know from the bottom of your heart that many of the behaviors shown in the film are caused by a lack of civilization from a social perspective. But because he is Chinese, such dazzling becomes a self-esteem conflict. Just like the people in the play use the play to cover up their loss, but they can also glow with kindness, which is very two-sided. The role of mother is the sharpest, yearning for freedom but unwilling to bear the secular world of the East, but every corner of her is branded with traces of the East. And the grandma, who is the core of the discussion, doesn't know what happened? How could it not know? But her momentum is the best illustration of group empathy. I really hope that Awkwafina and Zhao Shuzhen can touch the Oscars. Maybe the West is still just looking at it as a novelty, but it's not bad, it's already here.

The Farewell quotes

  • Jian: Chinese people have saying, when people get cancer they die. It's not cancer that kills them, it's the fear.

  • Jian: I don''t like, you know, put all my emotion on display. Like I''m in the zoo. But in here, if you don''t cry, you don''t put a show, they think that you don''t love your family. You know, in here, they even hire some professional criers. Just to show how sad they are. It''s just so ridiculous. I hate that.