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Tre 2022-04-23 07:03:19

The picture of the movie is very real and close to real life. It is said to be called "the Chinese movie that North American countries like to watch". After watching the whole movie, I personally feel that it is more like a micro-movie shot by college students. As an ordinary movie watcher, I feel that the processing of some shots is not perfect, but what I like more is the time to "empty" the viewers from time to time. The most interesting point that the movie wants to express is the different opinions between Chinese and Western cultures on "whether to tell cancer family members the real condition". In China, most of us choose to hide it, and there are similar examples around me, which indeed leave patients at the end of their lives. A relaxing and pleasant memory, which is illegal in the West, and different cultural differences lead to different ways of dealing with it.

I still remember a piece of Huang Zhizhong in a certain issue of "Wonderful Flowers" about "Should you encourage terminally ill patients to live?" He probably meant: Don't encourage me to say you have courage, where I go You don't need courage, you need courage. I don't want to hear you keep telling me how much you miss me, what I want to hear is how much you miss me, what I want to hear is not that you keep telling me what I haven't done, what I want to talk about is you Can you tell me what I have accomplished in my life, I want to hear this.

Maybe sometimes, maybe you think it's right, some things don't have only one solution, there are many ways to love, and your family and friends will love you in their own way.

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Extended Reading
  • Jayda 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    The directorial debut of 2019 SIFF is much better than what the Chinese made by themselves... The laughter is very appealing to me. The heroine's mother and grandmother acted very well. A contemporary Chinese city (Changchun) from an ethnic Chinese perspective. The soliciting drivers at the airport gate, the massage parlor, the hawking of kebabs on the street, the indiscreet curiosity of the hotel waiter, the grandmother's careful thinking about the foreign daughter-in-law entering the door, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law... Some of the Chinese lines are very CCTV6 translation. "It's all for your own good" from Chinese parents... The come healing at the end of the film is very emotional. To the last stroke, it is the director's selfishness. After all, it is still based on the warmth of reality, so I will not delve into it.

  • Athena 2021-12-28 08:02:14

    Grandma played so well, I hope to be nominated for Oscar! Behind "Don't Tell Her" is the Eastern philosophical culture that can only be understood. The dialogue is a bit blunt, maybe it's a special offer from overseas Chinese. I just wanted to buy a plane ticket to go home...

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.