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* AmbiguousSituation: At the wedding, Billi's mother Jian asks her aunt (called Little Nai Nai by everyone) what she plans to do with her life after Nai Nai has died. Little Nai Nai tells her that she will reunite with her husband who works in another city, and after he retires, they will travel around the world. Jian tells her she'd be happy to host her in New York whenever she comes to the US, with Little Nai Nai saying that would be great, and not to worry about her so much. The look on Jian's face after the conversation clearly shows she has no idea whether Little Nai Nai is lying to her like everyone is lying to Nai Nai.
** Towards the end of the film when [[spoiler: Billi's family leaves for America, Nai Nai is in tears watching them drive away, which could possibly indicate that she knew just why all of her family had the impromptu visit.]]
** Towards the end of the film when [[spoiler: Billi's family leaves for America, Nai Nai is in tears watching them drive away, which could possibly indicate that she knew just why all of her family had the impromptu visit.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: AmbiguousSituation:
** At the wedding, Billi's mother Jian asks her aunt (called Little Nai Nai by everyone) what she plans to do with her life after Nai Nai has died. Little Nai Nai tells her that she will reunite with her husband who works in another city, and after he retires, they will travel around the world. Jian tells her she'd be happy to host her in New York whenever she comes to the US, with Little Nai Nai saying that would be great, and not to worry about her so much. The look on Jian's face after the conversation clearly shows she has no idea whether Little Nai Nai is lying to her like everyone is lying to Nai Nai.
** Towards the end of the film when [[spoiler: Billi's family leaves for America, Nai Nai is in tears watching them drive away, which couldpossibly indicate that she knew just why all of her family had the impromptu visit.]]visit. Nai Nai told a similar lie to her terminally ill husband until his death]].
** At the wedding, Billi's mother Jian asks her aunt (called Little Nai Nai by everyone) what she plans to do with her life after Nai Nai has died. Little Nai Nai tells her that she will reunite with her husband who works in another city, and after he retires, they will travel around the world. Jian tells her she'd be happy to host her in New York whenever she comes to the US, with Little Nai Nai saying that would be great, and not to worry about her so much. The look on Jian's face after the conversation clearly shows she has no idea whether Little Nai Nai is lying to her like everyone is lying to Nai Nai.
** Towards the end of the film when [[spoiler: Billi's family leaves for America, Nai Nai is in tears watching them drive away, which could
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** Towards the end of the film when [[spoiler: Billi's family leaves for America, Nai Nai is in tears watching them drive away, which indicated that deep down, she knows just why all of her family had that impromptu get together.]]
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** Towards the end of the film when [[spoiler: Billi's family leaves for America, Nai Nai is in tears watching them drive away, which indicated could possibly indicate that deep down, she knows knew just why all of her family had that the impromptu get together.visit.]]
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* SkewedPriorities: When they visit Nai Nai's husband's grave, one of his sons places a lit cigarette on his grave. Nai Nai tells him that her husband can't smoke, it's bad for him. Her son notes that the man is already dead, he should be allowed to smoke after going through that.
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* SkewedPriorities: When they visit Nai Nai's husband's grave, one of his sons places a lit cigarette on his grave. Nai Nai tells him that her husband can't smoke, it's bad for him. Her son notes that the man is says it can't hurt him because he's already dead, he should be allowed to and the least they can do is let him smoke after going through that.in the afterlife.
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* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: Presumably the reason for Billi's [[PrecisionFStrike "shit"]] early in the movie. Though the movie isn't exactly for kids with its melancholy subject matter and being mostly in Mandarin Chinese, not much occurs that would warrant higher than a G rating aside from perhaps the alcohol drinking.
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* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: Presumably the reason for Billi's [[PrecisionFStrike "shit"]] early in the movie. Though the movie isn't exactly for kids with its melancholy subject matter and being mostly in Mandarin Chinese, matter, not much occurs that would warrant higher than a G rating aside from perhaps the alcohol drinking.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Billi feels like it’s wrong to lie to Nai Nai's by holding her cancer diagnosis from her, but at the same time Billi hasn’t told her parents that her application for a fellowship was rejected.
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** Billi feels like it’s wrong to lie to Nai Nai's by holding her cancer diagnosis from her, but at the same time Billi hasn’t told her parents that her application for a fellowship wasrejected.rejected.
** Played for laughs when Nai Nai tells Billi that she should get herself a man, because a woman needs someone to take care of her. When Billi asks if Nai Nai's fairly useless current partner Mr. Li meets that standard, Nai Nai takes her point and says a woman should be able to take care of herself.
** Billi feels like it’s wrong to lie to Nai Nai's by holding her cancer diagnosis from her, but at the same time Billi hasn’t told her parents that her application for a fellowship was
** Played for laughs when Nai Nai tells Billi that she should get herself a man, because a woman needs someone to take care of her. When Billi asks if Nai Nai's fairly useless current partner Mr. Li meets that standard, Nai Nai takes her point and says a woman should be able to take care of herself.
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* ValuesDissonance: Discussed in-universe. The collective decision of the family is to hide Nai Nai's terminal diagnosis from her because the Chinese believe it's kinder for the sufferer to be blissfully unaware before they die, rather than fearful and helpless. Billi with her American sensibilities feels it's wrong to decieve a loved one like that, and everyone acknowledges that such a thing would be ''illegal'' in America, but her uncle Haibin points out that they're not in America. The Chinese way is for the whole family to bear the burden of Nai Nai's diagnosis rather than her alone. Even the doctor in the hospital, who's studied in England, explains to Billi that the Chinese medical establishment plays along with this practice. The movie doesn't necessarily say who is right.
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* ValuesDissonance: Discussed in-universe. The collective decision of the family is to hide Nai Nai's terminal diagnosis from her because the Chinese believe it's kinder for the sufferer to be blissfully unaware before they die, rather than fearful and helpless. Billi with her American sensibilities feels it's wrong to decieve a loved one like that, and everyone acknowledges that such a thing would be ''illegal'' in America, but her uncle Haibin points out that they're not in America. The Chinese way is for the whole family to bear the burden of Nai Nai's diagnosis rather than her alone. Even the doctor in the hospital, who's who studied in England, England and is presumably familiar with Western medical ethics, explains to Billi that the Chinese medical establishment plays along with this practice. The movie doesn't necessarily say who is right.
