gantony-60672
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Superbly acted by all, including the little girls at the centre of the story, well directed and engaging to the end.
The clash of cultural traditions resulting in parental expectations constrain the ability of the young Chinese girl and her teenager sister to fit in their new environment as much as they could and want to. The shopkeeper parents' struggle to provide materially is a thread through the movie. Their apparent motivation behind migrating is to give their daughters a better life is stated, but their inability to let go of the cultural constraints hampers the daughters' starting their new life. The teenage daughter is an illustration of trying hard to fit into a new culture while being caught up in the wrong crowd to boot.
The parallel family of intellectuals who adopted a Chinese girl are stressed out while insisting on keeping her in both cultures, not necessarily to her satisfaction.
Full of pain and frustration, but a sociography and not a tearjerker, a movie well worth watching.
The clash of cultural traditions resulting in parental expectations constrain the ability of the young Chinese girl and her teenager sister to fit in their new environment as much as they could and want to. The shopkeeper parents' struggle to provide materially is a thread through the movie. Their apparent motivation behind migrating is to give their daughters a better life is stated, but their inability to let go of the cultural constraints hampers the daughters' starting their new life. The teenage daughter is an illustration of trying hard to fit into a new culture while being caught up in the wrong crowd to boot.
The parallel family of intellectuals who adopted a Chinese girl are stressed out while insisting on keeping her in both cultures, not necessarily to her satisfaction.
Full of pain and frustration, but a sociography and not a tearjerker, a movie well worth watching.
I was a bit afraid that the movie could be a chick flick for gay men, but fortunately this was proven very wrong.
For sure, there are explicit while unexposed sex scenes in there, but these are organic parts of the narrative, there is nothing gratuitous about them.
The underlying themes of the film have wide appeal for all with the shared human experience: loneliness can hit any of us, and most of us would carry the void of important conversations we did not have with our parents. How we deal with these and how this interacts with personal relationships is at the core of the movie. I haven't read the book, so I have no idea how close the film is to it, but both the core issue and how the protagonists deal with it feels very genuine in the film.
The surreality of the story line and the superb acting by all bring these themes out brilliantly in a raw but touching way.
For sure, there are explicit while unexposed sex scenes in there, but these are organic parts of the narrative, there is nothing gratuitous about them.
The underlying themes of the film have wide appeal for all with the shared human experience: loneliness can hit any of us, and most of us would carry the void of important conversations we did not have with our parents. How we deal with these and how this interacts with personal relationships is at the core of the movie. I haven't read the book, so I have no idea how close the film is to it, but both the core issue and how the protagonists deal with it feels very genuine in the film.
The surreality of the story line and the superb acting by all bring these themes out brilliantly in a raw but touching way.