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Today I want to pick up a new film, this film is an independent film released in North America in two months, the reputation is very high, at that time, the appetite of Bluestone was dropped to an old high, and this time with the efforts of the subtitle group, we finally have the opportunity to watch this film.
The heroine of the film is very familiar to everyone, that is, the cute and sweet heroine Zoe Kazan in "The Man in the Love Book", this girl is a talented girl, and it is said that the screenwriter of the film at that time was also her.
The film recommended today is just the opposite, the male protagonist in the film is also a screenwriter, or based on his own real experience.
The male protagonist is called Kumar Nanjani, a Pakistani guy who has been a resident supporting role in the well-known American drama "Silicon Valley"
This romantic comedy based on his real experience is called:
Serious illness
After many years of supporting roles, I finally played the main role with my own story, otherwise I felt that the difference in appearance was a bit large just by looking at the poster above, unlike the routine of the American film.
However, there are often surprises that do not play cards according to the routine.
As a small-budget independent film, if you want to make a fortune, you must first appear at the Sundance Film Festival, and it has received extremely high attention, becoming one of the top ten of the festival this year.
The score on Rotten Tomatoes was frighteningly high, with only 4 of the 219 film critics giving bad reviews, and the freshness was as high as 98%.
It was even more surprising on the more professional meta-scoring system, and the score was picked up to: 88, which was only lower than "Dunkirk" in the recent high-profile list.
Some fans have even booked it as the best romance film in the mainland
The film tells the love story of a Pakistani man in the United States and a white girl, but the family is severely opposed, the sister later got a seemingly "terminal illness", it seems to be another film rich in domestic cruelty and love gimmicks, but it was filmed out of a new pattern, and after watching it, it will definitely make a wave of domestic romance films ashamed.
When Kumi came to the United States from Pakistan with his parents when he was a child, his parents always wanted him to study law and become a lawyer, but Kumi just liked to tell everyone in comedy clubs.
His goal was to enter the Montreal Theatre Festival and end up on a talk show.
Once he met a beautiful white girl, Emily
The two fell in love at first sight, and without talking about two sentences, Kumi took Emily back to the dormitory.
After the intimacy, Emily wanted to call Uber home, but she didn't expect that someone would take the order as soon as she made a single order, and this order was Kumi, who was still lying on the bed.
That's right, Kumi has been working as an Uber driver during the day.
As they went, their relationship quickly warmed up, and Emily even wanted to take Kumi to meet her parents.
But Kumi was in trouble at this time, because as Pakistanis, their families had deep barriers.
His parents asked him to marry a Pakistani, wearing traditional Pakistani clothing, men with beards, and maintaining Pakistani eating habits, so that they had the same habits of life and the same Muslim faith, so his parents had been looking for him, and Kumi's blind date photos were collected in a thick pile.
Once, the photos were accidentally discovered by Emily, who felt cheated.
Kumi couldn't say anything, and the two broke up.
For this tradition of arranged marriages between Pakistani parents, Kuminei wanted to resist in his heart, but on the surface he did not dare to show it, so he had white girlfriends who did not dare to tell his parents, because marrying people of other races meant being swept out of the house by the family
At the same time, the situation of Pakistanis in the United States is also more embarrassing.
Speaking too loudly in public, they need to hurry up and declare to those around them:
We hate terrorists
Performing in the club, there were often spectators who provoked him with the topic of iss; even Emily's parents couldn't help but be curious the first time they saw him, asking him what he thought of 911.
And since the two broke up, why can Kumi still sit at a dinner table with his ex-girlfriend's parents?
Because Emile was suddenly found to be seriously ill, he was taken to the hospital and remained in a coma
Although Emily had difficulty accepting Kumi's apology before she fell unconscious, it was the normal illness that made Kumi realize her deep love for Emily; at the same time, through getting along with her girlfriend's parents, she realized that this society still has a certain acceptance of Pakistanis.
Kumi began to face his own weakness, intending to resist his family's feudal traditions and be brave enough to be himself.
If you have not seen the movie, from the two elements of love + serious illness, we may think that this is another love story that stirs up tears with terminal illness.
But in fact, the film does not make a big fuss in the direction of terminal illness and engage in tear-jerking gimmicks, but we will see a very sincere and true love, and let us see the beauty of this relationship in the nagging feelings.
Moreover, under this seemingly relaxed and lively feeling, the film actually presents the problem of national integration in American society from a sociological point of view, on the one hand, ordinary people need to open their arms to accept other ethnic groups; on the other hand, people who want to integrate must also open their minds and actively integrate into this society.
This may be the reason for the film's popularity: the fragile nerves that provoke this multi-ethnic society with a lighthearted and cute perspective and a serious illness.
(In the face of the 911 male protagonist made a joke, the result ~~)
Just like that seemingly irreparable relationship, in fact, it only takes a serious illness to make each other let go of stereotypes.
Perhaps many people have such an experience, whenever we have a serious conflict with our family, partners, and good friends, we especially hope that we will have a serious illness and face life and death, so many problems are no longer problems.
Only a serious illness can make each other abandon prejudices, can let themselves face the challenge with their hearts, can they discover each other's efforts, and can they let each other cherish each other.
Of course, the title of the film, "Serious Illness", is more like a joke, because not every serious illness can be saved, so before the outbreak, we had better be able to: open our hands and hug each other.