"Warmly Healing" or "Fearful Thinking"? The Oscar-winning short film "Baby Bao"

Stone 2022-04-22 07:01:58

This short film was actually recommended to me by my mother-since she was obsessed with farming texts, she has rarely discussed any topic with me... "This is a Chinese mother!" She sighed. "This is the last generation of Chinese moms!" I corrected. My correction seemed to hurt her feelings, so I had to make amends right away. Then I introduced to her from N perspectives why there is a huge gap between "Breaking the Sky" and "Baby Bao" selected by Wuhan Optics Valley, rather than "losely losing" the Oscar. Once again, she seemed to feel that she was not wasting her efforts to get me to school, and I breathed a sigh of relief.

The director who immigrated to Canada with his family when he was 2 years old is still growing up in such a very Chinese-style family environment. Perhaps it is precisely because he is in a foreign country that the cultural conflict is more direct.

This is a short film with a strong Chinese flavor: a pair of fleshy hands kneading dough at the beginning; a mother who is too busy to take care of the whole family; a father who has neither a sense of participation nor a sense of disobedience and strives to reduce his sense of existence; The "little bun" who is fat and can't grow up...

This short film shares a story that resonates with everyone: generational conflict and family.

Compared with the four years of being a mother myself, I am used to being a child first, and I am a "child from someone else's family" - when I was a child, it was a positive teaching material, and when I was obedient, I got good grades without causing trouble; when I grew up, it was a negative teaching material. Marry a rich man. However, even if it is over-interpreted, I still feel that this film is very scary.

Take a look at the "old and dead boss" at home who has a world-weary face, cherishes words like gold, sits at the table and waits for the meal to be full, pushes his legs and leaves, this little bun is the sustenance of my entire life! You have to be good, don't get yourself dirty, don't hurt yourself, just stay by your mother's side, let your mother protect you, take care of you, and accompany you. What? Even your chubby and cute little bun is going to "rebel"? ! He even married me a daughter-in-law directly? ! Do I agree? ! What? ? Aren't you going to marry me a daughter-in-law? ? ? Are you still moving out of the house? ? ? ? no! ! ! ! ! Boom - lived like this for thirty years, until the building collapsed.

There are many parents in the world who are always out of control because of their bear children, and then these out of control, except for the sea of ​​sighs that are classified as "poor parents in the world", are all invalid.

"The wings are hard? Believe it or not, the legs are discounted?!" Letter.

In the dream, my mother swallowed the small buns in one gulp, unintentionally revealing the subconscious of "I created you, you must listen to me" - when the creator's authority is offended, suppress it first. A mother who takes "home" as the battlefield, when defending her commander-in-chief status, unintentionally pushes her child to the opposite of herself.

The mother who wakes up is still immersed in the sadness and pain caused by the dream, partly because of her child's rebelliousness, and partly because she regrets that she simply and rudely crushed the child's personality in the name of love.

When parents and children are together, there is a way of love without knowing each other. No, the bear child is back, bringing a box of the same dessert that his mother bought when he was a child, and apologizes in a low voice - the heart of the mother's fist is the easiest to satisfy and the best to coax.

A family is like a forest. The branches of the family communicate with each other, the leaves are covered with each other, and even their roots are criss-crossed and intertwined, but they are forever buried in the ground and cannot meet each other. They never communicated, maybe couldn't communicate, and only tolerated each other by blood and kinship, and set aside issues for the time being. Life is not long, just make do and it will come to an end.

Have you really achieved independence through a son who got married and started his own business? I can't see it. It is not easy to grow up in such a family of origin where the father is absent and the mother is overprotective. Finally, let's see what kind of partner Xiao Baozi found for himself - it turned out to be a girl like her mother (very good at making buns)! Mom finally laughed happily again. what! Our little bun is not hungry anymore! This baton for taking care of the little buns, I can pass it on! The mother of the "Supreme Commander" smiled, and the whole family rejoiced.

As an audience, I have a lot of heart. There are four-year-old children at home. I hope we can understand each other for a long time. If not, then we can respect each other for a long time. Before he grows up, teach him to be polite, hygienic, and pay attention to safety; after he grows up, remind him that his mother is still young and not ready to be a grandma... What? Is he already an adult who can earn money to support himself? Well, his days are none of my business.

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  • Shaun 2022-04-14 09:01:06

    Using steamed buns as a metaphor for a son, would you swallow it if you don't obey? horrible.

  • Nelda 2022-04-13 09:01:06

    Asian-style mother-son symbiosis, controlled in the name of love, followed in the name of rebellion. When you eat the steamed buns in one bite, the metaphor is very deep. Children who don't listen to their parents would rather destroy you. A child is a product created by a parent, not an independent individual. Excessive love can suffocate each other. The warmth of Asian parents and children is always accompanied by tears in the struggle for sovereignty. This short film is the worst I have ever cried in the cinema, I can't stop crying

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