I didn't expect this movie to look like this

Jared 2022-10-23 17:16:10

I didn't expect this film to look like this, and it would be of great help to my graduation thesis. I'll just use the analysis of this movie as a model, because it covers pretty much everything I want to discuss. This is probably the most massively Chinese film I've seen so far. In the French family relationship discussed in the film, the relationship between children and parents is the core, and it involves all aspects of French life. As a viewer who has lived in Paris for some time, I deeply feel the cultural differences between China and France. And the film can no longer express these, but through the most concentrated expression of the changes in the relationship between the characters of the son and the parents, and jointly and severally express the difference between Chinese and French cultures. I was surprised that the entire ending of this film, funded by the mainstream French cinema chain UGC, was actually shot in Beijing. Ever since I've known UGC, I know that the films it invests in must be aimed at the broadest French audience - no one knows better than UGC what movies the French audience likes to watch. In 2001, UGC invested in this film, presumably after investigating and thinking about the French people's attitude towards Chinese culture at that time, before making such an investment.

I have to watch this film again when I actually start writing my thesis, because the French subtitles that I can find online are quite different from the actual lines, and they speak too fast!

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