Seeing the end, I feel that the story of the whole film and the ending are really ideal, happy and absurd.
My mother was always worried about her gay daughter who didn't like to dress up and didn't like to make a boyfriend. She often asked her to go to Chinese parties and tried to find a blind date, but her daughter was helpless and resisted all the time.
The 48-year-old mother suddenly became pregnant, but refused to say who was the father of the child. She was kicked out by her grandfather and had to live in her independent daughter's home. Due to her grandfather's pressure, her daughter did not want to live with her mother, so she started again. Busy blind dates for my mother...
Mom doesn't want to admit that her daughter is gay, and keeps making her blind dates for face.
The mother was pregnant in middle age, and was eager to find a man to marry, also for the sake of face.
In order to save face, the mother and daughter in the film must give up their true love and violate their true thoughts for the sake of a cultural morality acceptable to the public.
The Chinese people's face can only be good, not bad. The so-called bad here is not really bad, but a form that goes against the norm.
Face has become the bondage of most Chinese people.
The power of gossip can destroy a person. The reason why Chinese people are good-faced is that they are afraid of people talking after dinner. They are vain and show their gorgeous appearance to people as a talking point. They care that what people see is status, status, and wealth. What you don't want people to see is a side of being disapproved of. So we can only converge, those secrets, return to normal, and be an ordinary person.
The film's main crowd is Chinese people living in Chinatowns in the United States. They settled in foreign countries, and everyone's wealth status seems to be not low, but some ordinary market atmosphere is still prominently displayed in every detail. The middle-aged and elderly people living in that Chinatown seem to be out of touch with the overall American environment.
Married women gossip after a meal - who is younger and who is older? The old man who practiced in the morning was so calm that he practiced Tai Chi on the basketball court, so that the American guy couldn't even play basketball. Mother's stinky tofu and Chinese food, and the pastime is playing mahjong with various wives and aunts. These are the life of middle-aged and elderly people in traditional China.
And young people represent the other side of tradition. The young people here belong to the middle type. They grew up in the United States, and everyone can speak fluent English, even poor Chinese. But they grew up under the interweaving of American open multi-source culture and Chinese traditional implicit culture. They represent the opposite of conventional dogma, but also shrouded in traditional morality.
Homosexuality is gender non-identity. The 48-year-old mother has a child with a young man in his 20s, which is not recognized by the general public. In the eyes of most Chinese people, these are shameful, degrading, and shameful. Therefore, the director broke through the shackles of this level at the end, making the ending happy.
In the end, the mother married a man who was a generation short of the age. Daughter and girlfriend also came together. The people around them, amidst right and wrong, also began to accept their results. In the end, the pregnant mother said to her daughter with a serious face: "It depends when you will add a grandson to me." The movie shows the most real face problems of the Chinese people in laughter and wit. But the ending is a little too ideal, too harmonious. Of course, for a comedy, it's not too outrageous to be outrageous.
Not to mention the ethics of gender marriage. In fact, no matter big or small, as long as you put aside your face, you will not be bound.
Shameless, just free and easy.
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After watching this film, I thought of Yang Zhenning, 82 married 28, 82’s granddaughter is going to marry again Her grandfather's father-in-law. This is the most amazing family relationship.
In China, not everyone has done Yang Zhenning. Of course, not everyone has such an extraordinary heart.
PS Chen Chong is so cute here!
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