“Wedding Banquet”

WATCH Ang Lee’s “Wedding Banquet” BEFORE CLASS. Lee, Ang . The Wedding Banquet (Xi yan ), 1993.

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B. READ Lim, Song Hwee. “The Burden of Representation: Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet,” in Lim, Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i, 2006: 69-98.
Answer the following questions: Do you think “Wedding Banquet” is realistic? How would it be different today, now that gay marriage is legal for immigration? What kinds of problems does the movie highlight about immigration, the law, and wealth/poverty?

C. WATCH Wong Kar-wai’s “Happy Together” BEFORE CLASS. Wong, Kar-wai. Happy Together (Chun gwong cha sit ). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118845/ 1997.
Answer the following questions: Do you think the two main characters are really in love? What are the character flaws of each? What are their strengths? How do you interpret the film’s ending?

D. Read the following and summarize it in your own words:
Lim, Song Hwee. “Traveling Sexualities: Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together.” In Lim, Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i, 2006, 99-125.