It was four years ago I saw this at school. I remembered my Chinese language teacher brought the DVD or something for the class to watch. I know some of my classmates at that time were not interested in watching.
Maybe a clash of East meets West is at times...a little surreal and weird for some of us. To admit, I was one of those before the movie rolled in because given Mandarin is my mother tongue (and English is my first language), trying to watch it playing it out on Hollywood...is kind of funny for me. I mean, trying to watch people attempting to have Chinese accents in the movies especially the foreigners...I don't even know whether to laugh at them or shake my head.
But I saw it anyway. And I realised that satire is practically everywhere in the movie. Comedy is involved at the same time as well.
For someone like me who have to always brace herself for anything on the screen which may be a bit over the hill in terms of how others view the Chinese language except for those who had been exposed to the language throughout their entire lifetime (I am one of those), I can only say satire is all around in this movie.
Maybe a clash of East meets West is at times...a little surreal and weird for some of us. To admit, I was one of those before the movie rolled in because given Mandarin is my mother tongue (and English is my first language), trying to watch it playing it out on Hollywood...is kind of funny for me. I mean, trying to watch people attempting to have Chinese accents in the movies especially the foreigners...I don't even know whether to laugh at them or shake my head.
But I saw it anyway. And I realised that satire is practically everywhere in the movie. Comedy is involved at the same time as well.
For someone like me who have to always brace herself for anything on the screen which may be a bit over the hill in terms of how others view the Chinese language except for those who had been exposed to the language throughout their entire lifetime (I am one of those), I can only say satire is all around in this movie.