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我喜欢这部电影。我把我的孩子和其他孩子认为这是一个好电影看,稍微注意一下。这部电影讲述了一个“谎言”——一个家庭制造一个故事每个人都一起之前最后一次外婆身患癌症去世。在带回的孩子和孙子和扩展“阿姨”和其他人来说,家庭团聚,能够处理他们的悲伤,一起,但仍然竭尽所能不让奶奶知道她的诊断。这导致一些复杂但有趣的时刻,随着大量的家庭式惹人发笑的尴尬。设置在中国,与中国的价值观和家人团聚,这是一个很好的跨文化课程经常描绘的美式中国视图显示铅Awkwafina(大)对她的亲戚和那些仍然在亚洲。情节似乎有点过头了,许多西方观众。事实上,对于许多家庭的想法或医生隐瞒医疗信息条件只是深不可测。除了不道德的,在许多场合是违法的,违背了医生和病人之间的关系信任的必要。但是在其他文化中,“家庭”作为一个单元的需要和每个成员的角色在“承担情感负担”是很重要的。 The movie does a good job trying to explain this difference in many different points of the film and it’s an interesting lesson for children to learn about how other cultures deal with grief. My caveat for children is two-fold: one, there is an elephant in the room such that anytime you see a character laughing or smiling, you can see them instantly remember why they are there and drop back into a more somber state. Let’s not forget the film is about a grandmother about to die. This can be a bit of a downer for some kids expecting carefree humor and laughter. My second caveat is for younger children as this movie is about a lie, a falsehood, a deception and the characters in the film go out of their way to defend lying. There are countless scenes of small white lies throughout the movie (‘Yes I’m wearing a hat’ when they aren’t—‘I’m at a friends house’ when they are in the hospital, etc) not to mention the basic plot point about lying to their grandmother about her health. For a very small child, i.e. under 10 who still has a black / white sort of ‘all lies are bad’ opinion this film is going to really turn that on their head. This will likely lead to a conversation of when you should tell the truth and when you shouldn’t say something with total honesty. For some younger kids, these differences are still too subtle and this may be difficult for them to comprehend. But that said, I still feel it was worthwhile for my family to see. We had conversations about the differences in culture and the reason they concocted the story. The film created engagement and discussion amongst our family, which is always a positive thing. Gave it four stars and recommend for kids over about 11. Oh, one other note: The story is based in China and much of it is in Mandarin Chinese, which means younger kids are going to have to read the subtitles to keep up. My own kids, who have had some Mandarin in school, reported that they were actually able to understand quite a bit of the dialogue as it wasn’t overly complicated words or phrases. If your kids have studied Chinese they may find this a bit of a fun challenge.