Director: Ang Lee
Once again the charlie's angels sat down together to watch another movie. This time it's The Wedding Banquet by Ang Lee. I guess this would be the last time we watch a film together because we really had to go and mug for our examinations after this. Nevertheless, we must always enjoy and relax...
Me: I enjoyed watching this movie as the content is slightly different and interesting!
Peishan: I think so too. It’s about closet homosexuals, transnational some more. It’s a American/Taiwanese romantic comedy.
Xiaoting: Haha. It is a comedy but at the same time touching. This movie showed family ties, tradition and acceptance.
Me: I learnt that relation to a movie is not purely about personal experience. For instance, homosexuality, is definitely not what I had experienced but it is an increasing trend I notice in the society.
Xiaoting: It also reflects the society’s view on homosexuals and parent’s concerns for their child’s future family . Wai-Tung’s parents kept calling from his hometown, Taiwan to Manhatten to ask about his marriage plans.
Peishan: Yar. When Wai-Tung is living with his American doctor boyfriend, Simon got many years already. It was difficult for him. All the family pressures are like those in an Asian family tradition. The tradition and generation gaps can also be seen from this movie.
Xiaoting: During the wedding ceremony. Such traditions made me realize that it is very sad that as ages pass, we are losing many traditions because the younger generation refuses to accept and hence lose the interest to learn and pass on such traditions. Not only for wedding ceremonies, but also burial ceremonies.
Me: I realize the comedy sets in also when the “fake” bride that Wai-Tung wanted to use in order to please his parents fell in love with him for real.
Xiaoting: Complicated relationships. Love triangle! I quite like the fact that this movie does not despise homosexuals, which will turn it into a “propaganda” type of movie that educate people and shape their mind to reject homosexuality.
Me: Lee managed to bring across these few themes in a comedy style where we laugh at it but still brings some reflections and thoughts back. Lee also managed to ably points out how honesty is the best policy.
Peishan: Correct. “Whatever the price of truth now, it's nothing compared to the inflated cost that awaits.” All in all, this movie is quite educational.
Xiaoting: Because it teaches us to see homosexuals from their point of view and to always be truthful to our families?
Peishan and myself: Yup!!!
[1] http://www.filmcritic.com/reviews/1993/the-wedding-banquet/
[2] http://www.1worldfilms.com/weddingbanquet.htm
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