刮痧电影英文观后感
电影刮痧英文观后感【一】
Gua Sha is a movie about the differences between American and Chinese culture. Xu datong is a video games designer in St. Louis. When his father visits from China, he performs Gua Sha (a Chinese traditional treatment) on his grandson, which leaves bright red marks on the skin and causes a lawsuit of child abuse. In the court, Datong loses his mind so that finally he loses custody of his son. I think this scene is shocking and thought-provoking to most of the Chinese audiences. But the most impressing scene to me is the ending. Datong wants to see his son in Christmas eve, he has to climb a pipe to the ninth floor which his son lives. I think the pipe is not only a pipe, but also a gap, a deep gap between American and 5000-year Chinese culture. He wants to climb over the gap and he will never succeed, perhaps no Chinese people really could succeed.
It’s about assimilation into American culture, and not assimilation in an ”International” city, like SF or NY or LA or Chicago, but St. Louis, MO (actually shot there)。 Really great acting, interesting story.
Gua Sha is a treatment in traditional oriental medicine in which a wooden board repeatedly slides across the patient’s acupuncture acupressure massage points. It works in similar principles like that of acupuncture acupressure massage. This method would inevitably leave bruise on the skin, and the story begins here, when the visiting grandpa who does not speak any English used this traditional practice to treat the grandson when both son and daughter-in-law were at work.
Sadly, in US, this is a story that repeats itself many times in the area where many oriental immigrants lives and all of these are due to simple misunderstanding between cultures.Gua Sha: Step-by-Step, by Arya Nielsen.If an acupuncturist is trained in Classical Chinese medicine, they will do this technique in their practice for pain, and for acute or chronic illness.
电影刮痧英文观后感【二】
Chinese immigrants struggle to hold onto their American dream after the husband's father (Xu Zhu) comes for a visit from mainland China and gives a si-mp-le Chinese Medicine therapy called Gua Sha to his grandson.
Da Tong (Tony Leung Ka Fai) is the father who is trying to integrate his Chinese cultural beliefs into his daily American reality, especially when dealing with his bo(Hollis Huston) and best friend, who is too quick to believe the worst about Da Tong's treatment of his son, Dennis. Da Tong's failures show his confusion about the differences between his original Chinese culture and his new American home. Even within his family there is conflict because Grandfather can't speak English and is excluded from many conversations because Mother (Wenli Jiang) wants only English spoken in her home for the benefit of her American born son. Da Tong and his wife are very well educated and understand that their child's best chances for succein America, and for him not to experience the same troubles they've had during the past 8 years, are to speak without an accent. They even go so far as to insist the boy use a fork and knife instead of chopsticks, even when it's obvious they are still eating Chinese style food, served in the normal way: communal dishes for the food and smaller, individual rice bowls for each person. Mother seems a bit inflexible in her insistence on being as American as possible, while Da Tong's cultural leanings are just as strongly Chinese, although not by conscious choice.
Da Tong's love for his son is tested severely when Da Tong tries to balance it against respect for his boss. When Da Tong's son hits his boss' son, Da Tong insists on an apology that seems
unnecessary and makes Da Tong look stubborn and uncaring. Da Tong gives his boy a light rap on the head when he refuses to apologize and the boy cries to his mother that the reason he hit his playmate was that the other boy called Da Tong stupid, one of many examples of doing the wrong thing to protect your family.
The conflict arising from doing the wrong thing out of love or respect for one's family or closest friends continues throughout the movie, and every way Da Tong turns, he finds failure and encounters both obvious and subtle forms of anti-Chinese racism.() Even Chinese folklore about the Monkey King, Sun Wu Kong, that Da Tong incorporates into a video game he designed is used to provoke his pride when he's vulnerable and fearing for the loof his son. Da Tong is misunderstood by everyone, family, friend, and foe, even though he has only the best intentions, and he carries the responsibility quite heavily, ma-ki-ng one wrong turn after another.
Gua Sha (Motivational model yuedu.mipang.com) shows how a person's cultural beliefs are so deeply set within oneself that it is usually impossible to examine why you do most anything, from how you dreand talk to whom you love and respect and how you show it. The invisible nature of one's cultural beliefs also makes it difficult to impossible to explain yourself to others when questioned. Da Tong experiences an excruciatingly painful and difficult struggle while trying to protect his son, an ordeal that forces him to examine the validity of some of the most vital things he thought he knew about his identity, his Chinese culture, and the new American world he'd chosen as his home.
The movie showed me how normal it is for people to look for ways that their culture is superior to others' and how the misunderstandings arising from different cultural perspectives can seem very large, but can be nullified with si-mp-le, 2-sided explanations when people are willing to listen.
It appears this film is not readily available in the USA, but it's the best I've seen at highlighting the differences between American and Chinese culture. Parts of the movie's dialog are only in Chinese and I've yet to find a DVD with English subtitles, although it's easy to get the gist of what's going on during those short passages. The credits are a combination of Chinese and English, holding true to the integration of both worlds. I've noticed some important roles are not credited here on IMDb, such as Judge Horowitz, who was played by Alexander Barton.
刮痧电影观后感【三】
刮痧是2001年出品的一部电影,由郑晓龙执导,梁家辉、蒋雯丽、朱旭主演。该片以中医刮痧疗法产生的误会为主线,反映了华人在国外由于东西方文化的冲突而陷入种种困境,后又因人们的诚恳与爱心使困境最终被冲破的故事。
中国由先秦时期百家争鸣开始,到汉代的独尊儒家,形成了自己的独特的伦理观,讲究尊老爱幼,讲究祖先崇拜,讲究后代的繁衍,由此也形成了我们中国特色的“打是亲,骂是爱”的传统观念,只有在我们这个国土之上生长起来的人才能够真正的理解其内涵。影片中许大同的儿子小丹尼斯对此就是一个不理解,以致和他的玩伴矛盾不断。这个是家庭伦理上中西文化的差异。
另外一个,医学上的差异也是让西方人很难理解中国的刮痧治疗术。在法庭上,许大同说到中医的脉络,律师和法官都茫茫然。其实,别说西方人,就是中国人,即便是中医医生,很多人都不能很好的理解中医理论的阴阳、五行、经络,何况时外国人呢?
按“百家讲坛”中王新陆教授的《解读中医》的讲座来说,中西方在开始的时候,
医学基本都是一致的,都是从生产生活种积累起来的经验,都讲究整体论治,起初都是巫医不分。只是随着历史的进程,在后来才逐渐逐渐地走向了不同的方向,有了各自的理论体系。西方从盖伦的《子宫图谱解剖》走向了实证论,走向了微观;我国从张仲景的《金匮要略》、《伤寒论》奠定了辩证施治的基础。
其实这部电影也可以让我们思索一下中医的出路究竟在何方?由于>中医学的时间长,且需记的特别多,悟性亦很重要,在急功近利的今天,想要把已经式微的中医学再度焕发活力和口碑,尤其是在世界上赢得普遍的认可,尤其显得艰难和意义重大!
可幸的是,中医学在治疗好些疑难杂症的疗效上引起了世界上很多人的关注,它的个性化治疗亦逐渐受到了重视。
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