“The Wedding Banquet” updates a queer cult classic for a new generation, without losing its heart

It is difficult to be excited about remake. So far, after years of courageous executives on the walls of content mines with their billion dollars choices to discover intellectual property, no one can imagine (or want it), it is difficult to get used to the periodic nature of modern films. Regardless of the number of times the masses demand the original content, their needs are rarely met. Want to try something new? Very bad. You will get “Partner 5“Ship’s Ogre Tiktok is used, and you will like it.

But when Oscar won The output of the director in the United States, which has become an essential part of an endless life and changing the direction of a whole sub -group of cinema, must sit and notice, even if the new fatigue tells them otherwise. After all, Anal Lee 1993 movie “Wedding banquet“It is exceptionally distinctive. The second advantage of the Taiwanese director was the first American theater release, which paves the way for the Queer cinema, which has been filled with a decade that still competes with the ravages AIDS crisis. The film, which revolves around the owner of the bisexual Taiwanese who entered into a marriage with the tenant with a woman to extinguish his continuous parents, was a great success between critics and the public. Unlike many strange films at the time, the Lee movie was not a documentary, and it was not a HIV/AIDS or people who kill or turn into the killers themselves. The “wedding ceremony” was romantic about the family and love, and the difficulty of reconciling the breach between these two things when it is mainly related.

Unlike other reshaping operations such as “like”Road house“Or” The Crow “, where the tape that the original film placed is not completely high, is not the reshaping of something loved like” wedding banquet “is a uniquely difficult task. A lot has changed for strange people over the past 32 years. You may have heard that we can marry legally now. A ridiculous farce.

Fortunately, the new version of “The Wedding Banquet” is more than just decent, it is a companion worthy of the original Lee movie, with its potential effect like the predecessor. Directed Andrew Ahn AHN and participating in the participating writer participated in the original movie, James Chamous, “The wedding banquet” set with stars and enjoyable, which is a friendly and intimate look at contemporary strangeness and all the complex difficulties she faces, even in a more progressive society. A new edition fluctuates the scenario. Instead of just switching sex here or adding new characters there, AHN also explores how Queer’s experience has changed in the past three decades – and how he did not. The wedding ceremony is not simply slapped a new layer of paint in a pale project; It finds a new echo in a classic story, and determines a standard that must aim every new edition of this type.

Lily Gladstone and Kelly Mary Tran at “The wedding” (Luka Cybian Street/Backer)In this repetition, AHN delivers an extensive network, and expanding the story from the original Lee to further study how to face Queer relationships with Asian diaspora. Instead of a central couple, there are two, each with their nerves and ways in relation to each other. Angela (Kelly Mary Tran(Me)Lily GladstoneDo two gay couple live together in the northwest of the Pacific, while their friends Chris (Bowen YangAnd his friend Maine (Han Ji Chan), a Korean artist in the United States on a student visa, at the guest hospitality home in the park. It is a dream situation for any group of stranger friends, ensuring that there is always a friendly ear ready to listen when someone needs steam detonation. This happens a lot these days. Angela and the guardian of their second tour are trying to exhaustly. Meanwhile, Chris is the art success of Min, as his own creative endeavors stop in favor of leading bird tours throughout the Great Seattle. Instead of expressing their concerns about their partners, Chris and Angela left their feelings, and only exploding to each other.

This changes quickly when the second round of IVF does not take me, which puts more pressure on it and Angela. The couple needs difficult conversations about whether or not they will continue in the process, they can barely bear it, financially and emotionally. And when the visa of Maine approaches its expiration, he suggests a solution believed to be working for everyone.

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To avoid cutting it by his wealthy grandparents, Maine indicates that he and Angela marry. Their marriage will allow him to register a green card and keep his manifestations with his family, which ensures that the money from her confidence remains. On the other hand, Maine will pay the third and final round of artificial insemination and help in supporting their child. Of course, this complex plan generates only more problems, especially with the mother of Angela (May) (May (May)Joan Chen), Which is proud to be the best gay ally (also known as the most general encounter). How can she fill her days – and her Instagram network – if she cannot boast about her lesitary daughter online and in local PFLA meetings? The awe is real, but nothing compared to the unexpected access of Jeddah Min, Ja Yong (wonderful The youngest Jong Jong), Which he sees through the entire scheme.

With this revelation early in the movie, AHN and Schaamus soon resort to the expectations of a new edition to confirm their intentions. They want this version of the “wedding ceremony” newly and realistic, and let’s face it, he will not buy any grandfather in 2025 Lily Gladstone and Bueen Yang as a straight couple who live in the guesthouse abroad. If the AHN film updated with the original Lee is preserved, it will need to restrict itself to some of the most ancient narrative items in this movie, which hinders the new version before it has an opportunity to go. But allowing Ja-Yong to enter the plan from the beginning enables the “wedding banquet” to go to emotional places that its predecessor could not. It is not about how we copied with cultural traditions and more on how cultural traditions are suitable for our lives. This means that the light wedding banquet is not achieved like the original movie. But scenes that precede weddings ask many of the most interesting and funny questions about the biggest facts of life, rather than spending a good time of time watching our characters in an attempt to make the lie can be believed.

Thanks to this, the Lee’s “wedding banquet” was in the saturation of humanity while it could have been a non -intense comedy. Although it does not flow anywhere, it is worth searching, especially for its end, which finds a beautiful intersection between giving and emotional heavy thanks to the trio of stars. As Mina, the REMKE answer to the original Wai-Tung movie (played by Winston Chao), HAN is Dopey and loved like his predecessor. While Wai-Tung was the owner of Brooklyn, who is an artist in Seattle. Despite the personal differences between characters, AHN and Sichaus brilliantly explain their similarities. Both of them are wrong, just lie to protect and care for the people who love them.

In this updated version, AHN explores more on this topic and great success. The “wedding banquet” deals with the lengths that we will go to to protect our loved ones from harm, and asks what extent does it protect people from life. Instead of speaking frankly with their partners, Chris and Angela have attacked their feelings and slid the voids of the vacuum in a dark corner where they will never be found. It is a wrong idea of ​​protection, it can be said that the lie of this central film. Maintaining the truth from someone may not be betrayal of explicit trust, but rotting decomposing the same way, just goes away at a slower pace.

Han Ji Chan, the youngest Jong Jong and Kelly Marie Tran at the “wedding ceremony” (Luka Cyberian Street). AHN transmits this beautifully when it pulls the focus from the personal chaos of the Lee, Chris and Maine, and turns it into Ja-Young. As the cat comes out of the bag, no one must demonstrate around it, but everyone still feels uncertain on how to behave. It arranges for the wedding to continue as planned, even to please the grandfather of Maine, who stayed in Korea. They can take festive pictures, spread them in local Korean papers, and the other one will remain wisely until the day of his death. It is a min privilege ready to live with him, but it seems to bother Ja-Young.

While Ja-Young passes through her days before the wedding, AHN remembers a pivotal line of the original “wedding banquet”, when the father-tung’s father told his partner, “I watch, hear, learn.” In ahn, Ja-Young does the same. The framing of her face in the quiet moments of meditation, and in another scene, she shows her fluctuation through a book of Chris’s drawings, and curious about a place of his passion lies and how his family’s reaction was to go out.

In Lee, the Taiwan’s parents are not provided with the Taiwanese parents. The fans felt a sense of their relationship with their son, but a little about those who were as people – a suitable option for the amazing end in the movie. But here, AHN and Schaamus stores Ja-Young with a readable sympathy, which is the main credit for the great Young performance. Here, you build a smaller on its amazing Oscar -winning role in 2020.Menari“With a affectionate role in the same extent, even if her love comes in different ways and more old.