The last time I watched Ang Lee's "Ice Storm" was many years ago. It was unforgettable that there was no Chinese face in it, but there were two close-up shots of Chinese people eating rice. My own understanding, after all, the person behind the camera is a Chinese, so he always has to mark it. Western middle-class families, one husband, one wife, one son and one daughter, have family dinners with friends and neighbors on weekends and holidays. In the 1970s, the United States was caught in a new predicament because of the pursuit of extreme liberation. Just as in the story, the burnout family seeks fresh excitement, only to let things go out of control. Adults seek thrills and pleasures, and children appear to be vindictive. Adults and children are looking for alternatives to make themselves happy. In the play, cheating, stealing, secretly tasting the forbidden fruit, family chores, brothers robbing each other, middle-aged crisis, aesthetic fatigue of middle-aged couples, educational problems of adolescent children, etc., both Western and Chinese families will encounter. The director of this drama who has been idle for many years at home is very good at family drama, and his daily life is home life, grocery shopping and household chores. "Ice Storm" is his first Hollywood movie in the true sense, and it will still have a core continuation of the "Father Trilogy" ("The Wedding Banquet", "Pushing Hands", "Eating Men and Women").
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