The first half was laughing and crying, the second half was really crying.
I can't imagine that this is a film from thirty years ago. The core is too avant-garde. In "The Wedding Banquet", you can see the traditions and feelings of the Chinese people - family concepts, clan concepts, marriage customs, and director Ang Lee's "five thousand years of sexual repression". You can also see traditional Chinese concepts and freedom, individuality, gender conflict. Fortunately, the ending is happy. The parents who seem to be traditional and conservative are actually strong and tolerant - the moment his father put the red envelope into Simon, Simon suddenly realized that the old-fashioned old father, who the whole family carefully obeys and protects, is the most tender. people.
In Director Ang Lee's footage, Chinese wedding ceremonies are full of human touches. Even today's marriage customs that seem a bit "bad taste" are presented in a humorous and vivid way. "Five thousand years of sexual repression" also made me rethink these marriage customs.
In order to fulfill his parents' wishes, a gay son fakes marriage with a girl who wants to get a green card, and his lover cooperates in everything. Two people who want to continue their love, and one who wants to live out who they are. Simon is so pitiful, watching his lover's notarial marriage and getting drunk at the wedding, cleaning up everything at home and taking care of Wei Tong's parents, makes me sad. Wei Tong is helpless. He has been hiding a secret for more than 20 years. In this way, he is under pressure from his parents on the one hand, and pressure from society on the other, whether Chinese or foreign. . Weiwei, a girl who is looking forward to a vigorous life, has changed her trajectory because of a green card. Wei Tong's mother took her hand: "I envy the girls of your era." Wei Wei replied, "It comes at a price." The moment Wei Wei, who was in a foreign country, received the cheongsam and jewelry, both Moved and frightened, moved by the warmth of the family's love, and frightened to live up to this sincere love of elders, so the "fake daughter-in-law" regarded the "fake in-laws" as her real parents, perhaps this is why Weiwei is willing to give birth to children later one of the reasons. Candid, cute, and strong, she has lived as a "girl of this era". She does not necessarily travel the world with a sword, but she copes with the pressure of life freely and freely, and undertakes her own choices without any regrets or regrets.
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