The Wedding Banquet
All thanks to L, we dropped by a dvd store after dinner last night and I bought a load of movies I wanted to watch but never got the chance to including this 1993 gem by ang lee. Very touching, poignant and funny... and very chinese, be sure not to miss the surprise appearance by lee himself in the movie. I like lee's well-played political connotations in the scenes although I've yet to grasp the sleeping metaphor which keeps reappearing (wai-tung, his dad, his classmate) throughout the movie.
One of my favorite scenes is the one of wai-tung and wei-wei watching his parents leaving the banquet hall, the other is of wai-tung coming out to his mom ("可是又不忍心把扛这么多年的担子再放在你们肩膀上"). Personally I'm not one for big hoo-rah style wedding banquets. I can't imagine myself being the pseudo-star of the evening, center of attention oh the awkwardness of not being a pretty bride. As difficult as it is, should I get married one day I know I'll want to have a wedding banquet. It's for the parents. And I guess, in more ways than I think I am, I'm still a traditionalist inside.
