This topic can lead to many angles of discussion. I just want to recommend everyone to watch an American film by Chinese female director Wu Siwei - "Face". The following content contains spoilers.
The protagonist of the film, Xiao Wei, is a young and promising surgeon. Her father has long since passed away, and her widowed mother lives with her grandparents. The 28-year-old Xiaowei is still single. Her mother often urges her to participate in social balls in the Chinese circle, and she wants to help her find a boyfriend, but these arrangements are in vain, because Xiaowei is gay, and she does not love men.
One day, my mother suddenly appeared in front of Xiaowei's house, crying and crying. It turned out that the 48-year-old mother was pregnant out of wedlock - Chen Chong, the mother's actor, could easily act as a "mature woman's body + baby's mind" combination. The attitude of a charming and beautiful woman, because she refused to say who the father of the child is, the mother was kicked out of the house by her grandfather, and had nowhere to go but to go to her daughter. Xiaowei, who has long been used to living independently, is awkward in the same room with her mother and asks her grandfather to take her back. Introduce boyfriend, full of jokes.
Xiaowei's grandfather is a typical old-fashioned conservative and face-saving feudal patriarchal style. Her father died early and her mother was naive. It is not so much a mother-daughter relationship as it is more like a sister. Xiaowei is an older sister and her mother is a younger sister. The scene where the grandfather interrogates the mother is really laughable. The mother stands and bows her head and weeps to receive the reprimand from the grandfather. Xiaowei waved her hand embarrassedly; and asked Xiaowei if she knew who the father of the child in her mother's womb was, Xiaowei shook her head embarrassedly.
In the first conflict scene, the dancer Vivian makes a sexy debut. She is the daughter of Xiaowei's immediate boss. She lives with her mother and occasionally visits her father, who has divorced from her mother, in the hospital. The two have had a sense of love for each other since they met in the first act. I really want to give a thumbs up. This pair of actresses has been chosen extremely well. Full, natural, and free—they quickly fall in love—this is the second conflict scene, and the plot moves forward in a tight and dynamic way with two main lines of conflict intertwined.
Vivienne is free and unrestrained, sexy and charming, dare to love and hate, and Xiaowei comes from a traditional family, even though she has clarified her sexual orientation, she is still quite cautious. Vivienne's warm love slowly affected her and melted her. With the help of her black neighbors and friends, she gradually faced her true self. Finally, one day she mustered up the courage to say to her mother, "Mom, I love you, but I is a comrade.
Vivienne has a new opportunity to go to France to develop, in fact, how much she longs for TA to keep her. The immediate boss came to Xiao Wei, hoping that she would fulfill Vivian's career future. Invisible pressure and busy work, there is a pregnant mother to take care of at home, and my grandmother died unexpectedly at this time. In the busy schedule, there are many misunderstandings, and the lost Vivienne's trip to France is about to start.
My mother was arranged by my grandfather to marry a middle-aged man who had been secretly in love with her. At the wedding, the child's father finally stood up bravely - it turned out to be the son of my grandfather's old friend, Xiaoyu, who was the same age as Xiaowei. Frightened, grandfather was disgraced, and his morality was lost. Xiao Vera got up and her mother in a wedding dress ran out of the church and jumped on the bus. The mother and daughter sat in the last row of the carriage from ecstatic laughter to dazed silence. Don't think this scene is imitating the ending of "The Graduate"— - This is not the end.
Xiaowei suddenly realized that she couldn't lose Vivian, she rushed to the airport with the encouragement of her mother, and decided to keep her beloved. Vivian wanted her to kiss her in public. During the hesitation, her lover gradually drifted away.
The mother and the little lover finally got married, and both went out to the ballroom dance. No matter what everyone said, the grandfather had no choice but to accept the reality. Vivian couldn't let go of Xiao Wei and quietly returned to China. The two reunited at the dance and kissed affectionately - the poor grandfather lost all face, the scandal of her daughter and her little boyfriend's unmarried pregnancy was still unresolved, and her granddaughter's gay identity was big. Expose the world.
The American-style HAPPY ENDING finale once again surprised the audience: in the living room, the mother flirted with her little lover with a big belly about to give birth, Xiaowei and Vivian showed their love, and the family of four was happy. Mother said to Xiaowei: When will you add another grandson to me? Before I could finish laughing, I saw my grandfather appearing on the screen, and said old-fashioned: Humph! I must sit here, otherwise the children you will give birth to will not know what kind of education they will give you! Nima is so happy!
It is such a sweet and warm gay movie that is interesting, interesting, predictable and loving - "Face", I recommend it to everyone. While entertaining, you can think about what kind of group gays are? My understanding is: the benevolent sees benevolence, the wise sees wisdom, the lewd sees lewdness, and the devil sees devil.
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