First of all, the characters in this movie go to the dust to settle, but run counter to the expected ending. The little girl who has always been well-behaved left home first; the eldest daughter who said that she would take care of her father's life hurriedly disappeared with her boyfriend in the street at night; father Zhu, who has always been a representative of traditional ethics, finally announced his year-end love. As the representatives of traditional ethics, the characters have gone to the opposite side of the story one by one, but Jia Qian, who has been in modern society, has become the one who finally adheres to this tradition. Secondly, the film's technique is natural and smooth, and it describes the conflict and symbiosis between traditional ethics and western concepts, as well as the escape and inheritance of traditional ethics by a whole family.
In the second film, when her mother died young, Jiazhen began to play the role of mother. This role requires her to be majestic, to be content with her duty, and to restrict her freedom to pursue herself. Jiazhen and her two younger sisters are not as intimate as the other sisters, she is extremely sensitive. Jia Ning only said that she could not wear Jia Zhen's underwear, Jia Zhen immediately became hot, Jia Qian talked to her about her first love, and she fell the plate with anger. She told Jia Qian, this is home, it's all of my father, there is nothing wrong with it.
She told Jin Rong that she would take care of her father for the rest of her life. Jiazhen constantly persuades herself and strengthens her role as a caregiver and guardian, but she cannot get rid of her desire for happiness between men and women. Jiazhen is too depressed. I even think that the reason why she imagined that Li Kai was abandoning her first love boyfriend was because she forced herself to break this idea and take the responsibility of the family well, and use her deceitful desire to resolve her heart.
later joined Christianity and cultivated the spirit, even more so that he almost lied to himself. In addition, Jia Qian is public and confident. She is the most beautiful of the three daughters, the one who has done the best in her career, and the most favored. She feels too safe, so she can be friends with different boyfriends and spend time in bed, so she lost a lot of money in buying a house and she didn’t suffer too much emotional blow, so she was able to live in an old house alone and contentedly. in.
is such a person who should be the most like a fish, but he is always emotionally embarrassed. When encountering ridiculous things, he only thinks of looking for his ex-boyfriend, but encounters the embarrassment of having a new girlfriend at home. The ex-boyfriend who is about to get married still tries to get married She maintains the indifference of that relationship. At the beginning of the movie, the lonely father cooks a table of dishes at home and asks several daughters to come back. Daughters without a family can still rush home; at the end of the movie, Jia Qian cooks the dishes for the table, but only father One person came back.
In the end, director Li Ang expressed the brilliance and liberation of individualism through the departure of Jiazhen and Jia Ning, and expressed his watch and expectation for traditional family culture through the return of Jia Qian. Ang Lee is modest or pursues perfection. He admired the personal liberation from the family, but at the same time, he missed the warmth and protection the family brought to the individual. So even if everyone left the family in the end, but the director Still returning the most beloved character, Jia Qian, to the family, and through Jia Qian’s contact with Jia Zhen, Jia Ning, and Zhu’s dad, a relaxed family relationship was maintained more warmly.
