Other than that, it was sweet, emotionally-affecting, and beautifully shot.WebTorrent Desktop is one of the first clients to offer torrent streaming functionality. They made Billi seem to be the odd one out, but the practice itself is unusual weird by any cultural standards. That was probably the only problem I have with this film. My own family spent weeks preparing for the passing of my grandmother. While some Chinese people may choose to not talk about death, most westernized Chinese family (like the ones portrayed in this movie) would definitely confront death head-on. Likewise, The Farewell only represents a small portion of people in China. I'm sure I don't need to explain that CRA only represents (the top) 1% of Asians in the world. The representation of my culture, albeit positive and flattering, was artificial and polished. It also felt like it I got a peek into a culture that operates different from my own.Īs a Chinese American, I feel the same way I did about Crazy Rich Asians.
I saw this movie weeks ago, but I still don't know how to feel about it.Īs a filmgoer, it was a surprisingly heartwarming dark comedy that tickled my emotions in unexpected ways. Traditions that use to be so important (the dragon dance for the wedding) are now being given lip service to which is sometimes how things are, but it is a bitter reality. The old ideas, the family eating good food, cooking together, is now next to endless high rises, crime. The one aspect I wish they explored more, was how quickly china or in that matter Asia is changing. To say that I had almost the identical fight years and years ago is both heartwrenching and comforting. God did that hit home so hard, kind of sums up the entire movie. The one moment that broke me, watery teary eyes and all, billi's speech on the ground, begging to be informed, to wish to know what was going on, to not even know her own grandpa died because her parents wanted her to focus in school. I know.", "I'm not going to come home if you're just going to bitch at me" (forgot the exact wording), the one-uping of grief, the posturing (3 months, let's make it 6 months, why 6 months, let's make it a year). So many moments felt like they were plucked from my own childhood.
Though I will admit complete 100% bias since I am the target audience, Asian American that has dealt with almost an indentical story.
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