"Happy Blessing Society"
Four pairs of mother and daughter, four story lines.
The first Gong Linda, at the age of four, was promised by her mother to the Huang family, until she married into the Huang family at the age of fifteen, she did not know that her husband was just a child, and she was a child bridesmaid.
Because her stomach was slow to move, her mother-in-law attributed all the responsibility to her, and also vented wave after wave of resentment on her.
She was abused in her in-laws' house, drugged, grounded, beaten and scolded, and lived a slave-like life.....
In order to escape from hell, she used a trick to fool her superstitious mother-in-law, and finally exchanged a ticket to Shanghai, changing her fate...
The second warbler, born from a beautiful young and beautiful family, met a personable man at the age of 16, and her heart was completely immersed in passionate love.
Married and had children, but only then did she learn what man she had married: a playboy who was proficient in eating, drinking, gambling and gambling.
Taking pleasure in abusers, being violent, flirting with other women at his son's first birthday party, and openly bringing the prostitute home...
Yingying completely collapsed, desperate and angry, she drowned her son, after which she chose to run away from the family and find another way for herself...
The third Xu Anmei, who lost her father when she was a child, became pregnant after her mother was raped by the great evil Wu Qing, and had no choice but to become the fourth aunt of the Wu family.
He was blinded and tolerated step by step, and even the child he had just given birth to was snatched away by others.
In order to let Anmei have a new life, her mother chose to swallow opium and commit suicide, and she exchanged her sacrifice for her daughter's position in the family and for her daughter's strength.
Anmei, who has been taught to have no desire and no desire since childhood, learned to wail from that day and no longer pitied herself.
The fourth Wu Suyun, her first husband was an officer.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wu Suyun fled with her twin daughters all the way, and finally fell ill on the side of the road, and she was forced to leave her daughter on the side of the road.
She was accidentally rescued by an American missionary who was in the hospital, where she met her second husband and followed him to the United States.
Released in the United States on September 8, 1993, the film was a huge success at the time, winning the National Critics Circle Award for Top Ten Films, and subsequently becoming a classic in the minds of many people.
It is also one of Yu Feihong's early masterpieces, in addition, we can also see the figures of Xi Meijuan and Wu Junmei.
The reason for the praise is, on the one hand, the cultural differences between the East and the West shown in "Happy Blessing Club", and the strength of being a mother and a woman.
On the other hand, it also proves the mature acting skills of Asian actresses who work hard in Hollywood, they are not unable to do it, but they have always lacked a stage and an opportunity.
However, after watching this film, the director of the factory felt the deep misunderstanding of Chinese culture by foreigners.
It is not difficult to find that the four mothers mentioned earlier are also four tragedies, and their tragic experiences all occurred in China, and they all chose to go to the United States to start a new life.
In their experience, the husband is either three wives and four concubines or a playboy, and they all dominate the family, and as a wife, they can only obey and obey.
When Xu Anmei's mother went to pay tribute to her husband, she was looked at by the great evil people, and after the rape, she suffered the white eyes of her family, and she had nowhere to go before she was forced to become the fourth aunt of the other party.
Gong Linda's marriage was arranged by her mother, she was raised as a child bride since she was a child, obviously her husband was still a child who did not understand the love of men and women, but she was forced to bear all the responsibility for having children.
superstition.
The daughter-in-law just carefully connected several coincidences together, conveyed them in the form of the old ancestor's dream, and combined with the words "if there is disobedience, there will be no good end", the mother-in-law was frightened and immediately silenced.
Including after the death of Ameme's mother, after she said the words "if you don't pay your debts, just wait for your family to die", everyone present was immediately frightened.
The stepfather was afraid that the bodhisattva would settle the account, and not only immediately corrected Anmei's mother as the only wife, but also promised to raise Anmei's sisters and brothers and put them in the highest position in the family.
The second wife, who was also weak-hearted, also had white hair after that.
Emphasis is placed on succession.
Gong Linda married into the Huang family, but was only used as a tool to give birth to children, without children there is no good life, grandchildren above everything.
Even if this grandson is a maid and someone else's child, she can accept that this is a special arrangement of the old ancestor and regard it as a treasure.
It can be said that foreigners one-sidedly equate the symbols of three wives and four concubines, feudal superstitions, and succession to the next generation with "Chinese culture".
Not only that, but when the film also shows their daughter's marriage, this directionality is also very obvious.
Gong Linda's daughter had a failed marriage, she married a Chinese man and had a daughter, but after that the two chose to divorce.
The warbler's daughter also had a failed marriage in which she and her husband split everything from dating to marriage, from daily tissues and magazines to every meal they ate.
Tapping the calculator is almost the husband's daily operation.
The only daughter with a good marriage, Xu Anmei.
Despite a marital crisis, the husband eventually realized his mistake and reconciled with his wife, but the husband was white.
In the film, these mothers, like the same serious stereotype, force their daughters to play the piano, and use their daughters as a capital to show off and compare themselves.
They don't care about their daughter's true thoughts at all, and always attach their expectations one-sidedly to their daughters.
What is even more frustrating is that 25 years later, when Hollywood came up with an all-Asian movie, these elements still have not disappeared.
It is still a stereotypical female image, and it is still the style of an upstart.
Although some of them are not like before, they have evolved into another extreme, as if they have been suppressed for a long time, and once the outbreak has to be made of all kinds of swaggering, it is necessary to raise their eyebrows.
I have to say that neither 25 years ago nor 25 years later, Hollywood has never really understood China.
The so-called Asian-themed movies they made, in the end, it was themselves who were pleasing to them.
When they cheered with their own works on the other side of the ocean, they wondered why we on the other side of the ocean didn't know how to appreciate it?
I just want to say that what you think you think has never been the real China.
Sorry, I can't appreciate this classic.