Vietnamese movies seem to have not been widely advertised enough, so even if a lot of good movies are made, the public still does not know, which inadvertently allows Vietnam to bury a lot of treasure movies.
The only vietnamese movieS I have seen is probably "Lover" starring Leung Ka Fai, and "Goodbye, Mom" should be the second Vietnamese movie I have seen.
If "Lover" is just a Vietnamese movie where the story takes place in Vietnam, the main actors are not Vietnamese, and it is not an authentic Vietnamese movie; then the Vietnamese taste of "Goodbye, Mother" is absolutely authentic.
The actors of "Goodbye, Mom" are all Vietnamese actors, and the local taste is correct.
This film released in 2019, the film uses a small fresh filter, very Japanese and Taiwanese small fresh style.
Appearing in the film is a Vietnamese-style house with clean, bright rooms and courtyards, which makes people yearn for this idyllic country life.
In the future, if I have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam, I would also like to try to live in such a house. (I said I want to go to Vietnam immediately to travel to provoke ~)
"Goodbye, Mother" is a film based on the same sex two people, Anhui and Ian, and mainly explores the antagonistic relationship between the same sex and the world, the love of affection, and the contradictions of the life of the extended family.
01
Hard-to-say out
Two handsome Vietnamese brothers, Wan and their lover Ian, who stayed in the United States to study, flew back to their long-lost home together.
Wan's return home this time has an important task, because his late father wants to move the grave, and as a major event in the family, the eldest grandson Wan must be present.
Ian didn't want Wan to bear the family's affairs alone, so he came back with him. Holidays by the way.
However, the identity of the two of them in love has become hidden after returning home.
Because of the traditional folk customs of Anhui's hometown, it is conservative.
The only intimate place the two of them could be at home was the restroom in the yard.
Ian hopes that Wan can have a showdown with his mother as soon as possible, but Wan is unable to say it.
The family has always regarded Wanwan as a straight man.
Instead, the somewhat confused grandmother mistakenly regarded Ian as her precious grandson, and Ian had the opportunity to tell grandma about his relationship with Wan.
Mom is someone who learned later, and she also said it when she mistakenly thought that her mother in the bathroom was boyfriend Ian.
In other words, Mom knows passively.
Although the mother will observe the behavior of the two people at the dinner table every day, the mother, who is difficult to accept the truth at the beginning, also regards the fact that her son Anhui is gay as her own fault, and the mother feels that Anhui is too lonely in the United States.
But Wan knew he himself was not like that.
Vietnam is not the United States, the degree of openness is not as high as that of the United States, and the tolerance for homosexuality is not so high.
It also reflects some Asian cultures. In Asian cultures, most people still reject homosexuality.
Ian, who returned home with Wan, was even beaten up by his cousin who excluded homosexuality.
In the two films "The Wedding Feast" and "Who Fell in Love with Him First", which are also gay, it is always difficult for gay people like Wan and Ian to announce their coming out to those around them.
Once it is spoken by others, it may be scolded, ridiculed, or bullied.
Even in the United States, the people in Brokeback Mountain are ostracized from homosexuality.
But it may also have something to do with the age, after all, Brokeback Mountain is about the sixties. At that time, everyone's attitude towards homosexuality was probably not open enough.
In Asian culture, families view the emotional problems of their children, and it is generally the traditional marriage and children, inheritance, and generations, to the largest extent, this is a social phenomenon or the inevitable result of cultural genes.
And the collision of the traditional cultural genes of the majority of the people, such as homosexuality, and the traditional cultural genes that belong to the majority of the people, are somewhat contradictory.
At the end of the day, the masses generally like to conform to the herd.
02
Affectionate and warm love
The emotional needs of human beings may not be without love, but they must not be without affection.
Because of the love of family affection, it can dissolve many obstacles.
The grandmother in this film, although it seems a bit old and confused to everyone, but the grandmother's love for her grandchildren has never disappeared.
Even if she mistakes Ian for her own grandson, Grandma will listen carefully to him tell the story of his love for Wan, secretly give him pocket money, and tell him to leave all the family property to him. Even when necessary, Grandma told everyone on behalf of her grandchildren that the two grandchildren who would come home together would get married.
And this incident occurred after the end of Anhui's father's grave removal ceremony, when the villagers gathered together to eat and Anhui was forced to marry.
Uncle Tan, a family business partner, was eager to facilitate the marriage between Anhui and his daughter, and Anhui was suddenly forced to marry.
At this time, Grandma God assisted on the stage and took the microphone to say that her two grandchildren would get married.
The design here is very pun-like: through grandma's confusion to create a comedy, and borrow grandma's confusion to tell the truth without concealment.
This is the high realm of the big truth.
Like an old naughty boy, the grandmother loves her grandson, she does not want her grandson to be wronged against her own will to marry and have children, when she sees her grandson being beaten, she will rush to arrive, and she will also touch her grandson's injured face in pain, although the grandson is the person she recognizes.
Grandma wants her grandchildren to live the way they like.
At first, the mother was worried that her son was too lonely and had no one to accompany, so she wanted her son to start a family quickly. On the other hand, it is also because the mother has diabetes and heart diseases, worried that she will not be able to accompany her son for too long, so she will urge her son to become a family and have a baby.
However, after the mother learned that her son and Ian were lovers, despite the shock, she chose to accept and understand, and the mother expressed the hope that her son Wan and Ian would be happy together and that she would always accompany them.
The two big boys, touched by this strong and loving mother, are a mess.
This is the love of the mother, no matter how shocked and difficult it is to accept in the heart, in the end she will choose to bless them for the happiness of her son.
Whoever had such a good mother would really die happily.
03
The contradictions of the extended family
Family love can be solid or fragile.
There will still be some small contradictions between small families, not to mention relatives who will have interests involved.
In the film, Anhui's mother is a very virtuous, strong and responsible mother, and the family's cement tile business is led by her.
She lives with Anhui's grandmother, sister-in-law or uncle's family of four, and usually eats together and does business together.
However, under the seemingly plain and harmonious life, there are many irreconcilable contradictions hidden.
Anhui's aunt once provoked a gangster when she went to Jin to talk about business, and the debt owed when gambling was repaid by the sister-in-law, and the aunt and sister-in-law thought that the sister-in-law had a private family property and wanted to divide it equally.
The accumulation of these contradictions has appeared in many families that live together. However, it also reflects the inner tenacity and nobility of the character and the breadth of the heart of Anhui's mother from the side, and also paves the way for the later understanding of her son's choice.
The kinship in large families often reflects the test of human selfishness and greed, and is often thought-provoking.
In the one-hour and forty-one-minute length, the director shows these three major themes at the same time, and the integration of the themes is very harmonious, and it seems that there will be no sense of drama.
"Goodbye, Mom" is really a good movie! It mainly focuses on the life in the countryside, and from time to time you can see dirt roads, domestic ducks and fresh green trees, invisibly pulling the small and fresh love atmosphere to the full.
No wonder it got an 8.1 point on Douban! After seeing it, I feel that I have been cured.
After watching the movie "Goodbye, Mom", if anyone says that Vietnam does not have a good movie, I will really be anxious with him.