刮痧电影英文影评

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licts, in which the Datong‟s father is too weak to fight back and have no choice but to return to its own culture. What has made a Chinese old man face those cultural conflicts? The reasons are as follows: living environment, language, worldview and values, etc. And in all those elements, I think the unfamiliarity of an unacquainted culture should be the most striking one. Conclusion Part: American Dream? So Hard to Achieve for a Chinese Immigrant Do you still remember the words said by Datong Xu at the start of the movie when he is addressing his prizewinning speech? In his speech he says that if he can keep working hard he will one day bee a real, successful American, American as he has thought of is a country full of opportunities and he is the lively example, and at last he says he loves America and that‟s his American Dream. Sarcastically, the start of the movie turns out to be Datong‟s peak, and then both his career and his life have bee worse and worse. It is certain that the family is reunited and things begin to bee better, but you can‟t deny the fact that Datong‟s American Dream is actually ruined and disillusioned, maybe through time he will soon “recover”, but the pain left by the tragic memory of this incident is sure to last long. In his famous novel The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald wrote the famous sentence: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past (Fitzgerald, page 224). American Dream is far away from those immigrants, the famous Chinese writer Zhu Ziqing has once said: “but the happiness is theirs, I have nothing.” And this theory can also be adapted here: the American dream is American‟s, they immigrants have nothing. Even Americans themselves can‟t easily realize their dream, how about immigrants? And what has made this? Of course the difference of culture and value systems! To solve this problem, we still have a long way to go. The name Datong means great harmony, I guess it is not only the ultimate goal of the director but also the ultimate goal of people all around the world. It es as no surprise that it is of vital importance to realize this goal, but there still exist a great number of obstacles, especially in the aspect of culture and munication. What should we do? Just keep walking, keep fighting and trying hard to build bridges between different cultures and help them understand each other to fulfill our dreams. 5 If one day the great harmony arrives, the world will take on a new look and the earth will make a true global village. When a member of one culture produces a message for consumption by a member of another culture, intercultural munication occurs, which is a kind of munication between people whose cultural perceptions and symbol systems are distinctive enough to alter the munication event. People are alike and different. We carry our culture with us wherever we go, and it influences how we respond to the people we meet. The leading man in the movie Gua Sha Treatment has been in America for eight years as a new immigrant. At the beginning of this movie, the man, Datong addressed a speech in American way to show his love to America and American dream. It seemed that he has gained great success in the American mainstream society. Yet it was just an exaggeration of his success when used to make the parison with the ensuing events. Datong and his wife were born and raised in China, while their son was a Chinese American. They taught their son in American way and spoke English all the time. In the celebration, we can find Datong was praised and encouraged by his boss, who can be taken as a representative of the mainstream business. At the party, because of the quarrel between the two children, the son, Dennis was beaten by his father, which is just a very mon action in Chinese culture. The grandfather of Dennis also admitted the way of education. Because the other boy is the son of his boss, Datong gave his son a lesson to show his respect to the boss, who can not understand it at all. The boss was shocked and accepted it temporarily. In American culture, individualism is the key point of American cultural pattern, even between the father and the son. But in Chinese cultural pattern, fathers have the right or responsibility to educate the sons, no matter in a legal way or his personal way. We tend to take it as family privacy, instead of family violence or child abuse. In traditional Chinese culture, family conflict is often solved between family members and it‟s a shame to spread family conflict outside of the house, while in America, the law and regulations make the difference. There was a very plain role in this movie, Lao Huo, the man who acted terracotta warrior, which was a loser in pursuing American dream pared with Datong. There were only the daily life and death of Lao Huo in this movie, which reflected the pursuit and struggling of an ordinary person in America. The death of him made the father of Datong think a lot, which was a clue to tell us the old man will return to China finally. According to the two different results of pursuing American dream, two different result of cultural conflict revealed. After the Gua Sha treatment rendered by the g。