This year's Qingming small long holiday, the small and medium-cost family film "My Sister" was released for 3 days to win 347 million yuan at the box office, firmly occupying the champion of the single-day box office ranking and becoming the largest dark horse. The emotional resonance triggered by family affection and the film's criticism of the social phenomenon of son preference are the two magic weapons for the film to win high box office.
However, two important plots in the film also caused a lot of controversy: one is that the younger brother took the initiative to find the couple who adopted in order not to drag the sister down; the other is that at the end, the sister suddenly refused to sign the adoption agreement and dragged the younger brother out to play football. It seems to be an open-ended ending, but the tendency is obvious: the sister is likely not to give her brother to others for adoption, and has followed the old path of aunt raising her brother. Although this is ethical, it is strongly questioned by many young female audiences with independent consciousness.
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"My Sister" is a family film directed by Yin Ruoxin, written by You Xiaoying, starring Zhang Zifeng, xiao Yang specially starring, Zhu Yuanyuan, Duan Bowen, Liang Jingkang, Jin Yaoyuan and Wang Shengdi. The film tells the story of a pair of sisters and brothers who grew up in a patriarchal family environment, because of the age difference has not seen a few faces, coupled with the eccentric eyes of their parents, the original relationship is relatively cold, after the sudden death of their parents in a car accident, the sister played by Zhang Zifeng is faced with the difficult choice of whether to raise her brother or pursue a personal independent life...
Sister Anran's reluctance to take care of her brother after the death of her parents originally did not conform to the ethics of the Chinese, but the film laid out the reasons for it and the difficulties of the sister very well, so that many viewers did not think that there was anything wrong with the sister's attitude towards her brother after the accident, but sympathized with the sister's suffering and situation.
At the same time, the aunt played by Zhu Yuanyuan has also become a lesson for Enron, so Enron was initially eager to send his brother to be adopted, and went to Beijing to study for graduate school to start a new life, which was considered by many viewers to be beyond reproach, and even the aunt finally let Enron make his own choice.
Unexpectedly, although my brother was still in kindergarten, he was completely an ignorant child when he first appeared, but later he suddenly became extremely precocious in the day and night with his sister for a short time. There are two places in the portrayal of the younger brother in the film that are not very real: one is that the younger brother reads "boiled beans and burned beans" to his sister; second, in order not to drag the sister down, the younger brother takes the initiative to find the couple who adopted him. Especially the second point, can kindergarten children be so rational and considerate? It's unbelievable.
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The end of the film was also strongly questioned by many young female audiences with independent consciousness. There is no doubt that the whole film is critical of the preference for sons and daughters, and also supports women's independence and feminist ideas, but the end is a compromise with the sister-brother relationship cultivated in a short period of time and the traditional Chinese ethics and morality.
Although the screenwriter of this film said in an interview with the media that he believed that "the sister will not go the old way of the aunt", the sister refused to sign the adoption agreement and ran out with her brother to play football, in fact, she has made a choice in her mind: it is difficult for the sister to accept the adoptive party's terms of not meeting again in the future.
Since the sister decided not to sign, she could not give up the sister-brother relationship, which means that it is very likely to take the younger brother to Beijing to work and live in the future, although it cannot be said that she has fully embarked on the old path of her aunt, but it is in conflict with her personality that has been pursuing independence before.
However, this is in line with the traditional ethics of Chinese. If the screenwriter really writes that the sister signs the adoption agreement and promises not to meet her brother in the future, I am afraid that it will also be questioned by many viewers.