Film Review of The Wedding Banquet

This film is the first internationally famous film in Ang Lee. The biggest feature of the film is to deal with homosexuality with China people's unique family ethics and the concept of moderation, so that this social problem that plagues almost all families can be solved in a comedy way in the film. This way of treating homosexuality and the concept of treating homosexuality are oriental, and even similar views can be found in China's classical novels. But this story takes place in new york, the most prosperous and modern city, where the classical and the modern meet, and the old and new ideas tolerate each other after the conflict. In his novels, Ang Lee conveyed the confusion, helplessness and tolerance of a traditional China family in the face of modern concepts in modern society. Of course, the success of the wedding banquet is also due to the competent acting skills of several actors. Especially Ang Lee's two royal elders, Lang Xiong and Gui Yalei, their natural and serious performances almost overshadowed several handsome men and beautiful women.

As a director who likes to discuss ethical issues, Ang Lee's films continue the creator's concern about ethical and moral conflicts in the multicultural background and the complex interpersonal relationships and emotional entanglements caused by them. The arrangement of the first half of the film may make people feel that it contains enough gunpowder primers to blow up an ethical system that has imprisoned individuals for thousands of years, and there are still many question marks that make people chew and ponder. However, in the face of such a complicated problem, what Ang Lee showed was not his sharpness of thinking to affirm or subvert any moral values, but his calm narrative ability. Ang Lee's outstanding point is that he can skillfully weave these clues, unfold the story layer by layer, and at the same time push the drama conflict to a climax, carefully balancing the meticulous portrayal of various roles with the cracks of many values and emotions in the name of a universal "love". This narrative style was once again vividly reflected in the later directed Sense and Sensibility. (Sina. Com review)