"Don't Tell Her"
The film is mainly based on the bad news of my grandmother's terminal cancer, and focuses on the theme of family love to tell the various cultural differences between China and the United States. "Don't tell her" is a true story that happened to the director himself.
The first scene begins when the granddaughter receives a call from her grandmother across the ocean to care for each other. It shows the deep family bond between the granddaughter and her grandmother, and lays the groundwork for her granddaughter who will be very ill in the future and insist on returning to China to visit.
In the scene where Billy was arranged to stay in a hotel by his family on the first day of his return to China, when the waiter learned that Billy was a foreign Chinese, he asked Billy consecutively. The waiter at this time represented the curiosity of contemporary Chinese about the United States. Is it really much better than China? Why is everyone eager to go to America? There is envy, admiration and disdain in curiosity.
The film also outlines three other very interesting scenes. Scene 1: A wedding banquet is forcibly prepared for a reason to visit grandma. Although the Chinese-style banquet culture presented here is not as good as Ang Lee's "The Wedding Banquet", it is still representative, showing another new generation of Chinese wedding banquet culture to the world in the form of movies. Scene 2: Chinese-style worship of grandpa's grave. The tomb sweeper prepared enough snacks and snacks to put all the things that grandpa loved to eat one by one, and even opened it up to prevent thieves. Praying to the deceased grandfather for good wishes to the family and bowing to each other, all these actions are so real and unpretentious. Scene 3: The family sits around a table for many times to eat and chat, and it is very similar to Ang Lee's "Diet Men and Women". The dining table culture may be a complex that Chinese directors cannot avoid when shooting Chinese emotional literature and art films.
View more about The Farewell reviews
