"Push hand", "Wedding Feast", "Eating Men and Women"
Ang Lee's "family trilogy" is the cornerstone of his knocking on hollywood doors. Through the escalating family contradictions between fathers and children, the fierce conflict between traditional Chinese culture and modern Western civilization is demonstrated.
"Pushing Hand": Chinese fathers meet foreigners' daughters-in-law, and the conservative traditional view of family ethics is challenged by Western individual liberalism, and the relationship between the two sides becomes more and more stalemate.
"The Wedding Feast": The father who is eager to hold his grandson finds that his son is gay, and the son plans to use the form of marriage to fool the past, and the family war is on the verge of breaking out.
"Eating Men and Women": The widowed father and his three daughters are gradually drifting apart, they are always hiding from him, but the father takes the lead in taking off the mask and ushering in a twilight love...
Interestingly, the father in the three films finally chose to compromise, which seems to be a setback to traditional values, but in fact, it reflects the true mystery of Oriental culture - balance and tolerance.