The confusion of Chinese Westernization

Retha 2022-03-25 09:01:19

This is a very real movie about the living conditions of Chinese living in the United States with traditional concepts.
The heroine and the heroine's mother are both deviant people in Chinese society. One is les, a 48-year-old unmarried pregnant. These are acceptable to everyone in mainstream American society, but they are outrageous in traditional Chinese communities.
There is another kind of Chinese in the movie. Although the father of the heroine's lover (the old husband-in-law) is also a Chinese, he doesn't have much objection to Les' behavior. The whole film conveys the conflict between Chinese Westernization and traditional concepts.

But is Westernization a good thing at all? What is conveyed in the film is an idealized Western-style community where everyone does not interfere with each other. But it fails to paint a picture of the alienated side of people in Western-style communities. Too much connection can bring inconvenience, but too much separation can also bring loneliness.
Can tradition and westernization reach a balance?

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  • Icie 2022-03-14 14:12:28

    6/10. Specially emphasized the image of Chinese medicine. Lao Yu prepared Xiaowei's mother with Chinese medicine to replenish her body, but the love letter that Xiaoyu put inside could cure her mother's heart disease. Grandpa played Tai Chi and occupied the black court, and his mother mocked the black people for eating soy sauce and eating black. To overcome the cultural isolation of the older generation; the A-film recreational desires for white consumption and yellow females are rented, and the blind date party becomes a gay tryst, symbolizing the Chinese women who play a passive role in controlling themselves sexually.

  • Tess 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    Vivian (Lynn Chen) Is beautyful~

Saving Face quotes

  • Wil: It's been crazy. Vivian, there's a lot going on right now. I'm sorry if I... if this hurts.

    Vivian Shing: At least it's not a flesh wound.

    [gets up and walks away]

  • Vivian Shing: Your hot dog got cold so I fed it to the birds.

    Wil: Careful. We don't wanna train them to eat flesh.