![]() Right as providing an international commentary on Sleepless in Seattle¸ but rather we should see this film as providing a window into the inner life of a pregnant Chinese woman who has to grapple with her own fantasies before she can find herself.īy fantasies, I am referring to her expectations of settling down with a cheating “sugar daddy” and using (someone else’s) money to buy her way through life and into happiness. It reminds me of discussions about William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew being a “play within a play.” We should not view Finding Mr. Right and its namesake, I find that the evocation of Sleepless in Seattle functions as a well of fantasy. In addition, a police raid of one center that occurs at the beginning of the film provides the audience with a more nuanced and, perhaps more balanced, vantage point from which to view this phenomenon.Īlthough there are similarities between Xue Xiaolu’s Finding Mr. Jiajia actually has a meltdown in a club when thinking about the legal obstacles she faces in giving birth to an illegitimate son in China. Indeed, what is interesting about the portrayal of “maternal tourism” in this film is that our heroine is not being strategic in giving birth abroad. ![]() Throw in a controversial backdrop of pregnant Asian women traveling to the States to obtain American citizenship for their children and we can have an entirely different movie! I also do not imagine our new “Meg Ryan” to be engaged in the act of falling in love with our equally new “Tom Hanks” so soon after giving birth to another man’s love child. When I think about a semi-tribute to Nora Ephron’s Sleepless in Seattle, I (again) do not picture the leading lady wrestling with a baby-bump concealing wrap in the airport. In the midst of immigration politics and the instability involved in dating someone else’s husband, Director Xue Xiaolu creates an entertaining and simultaneously poignant space for a complex heroine like Jiajia to find not only Mr. Over the course of the film, however, Jiajia’s encounters with the other women at the “maternity center” and, of course, with Frank challenge and change her for the better. ![]() His top priorities are caring and sacrificing for his daughter, Julie (Song Meiman). He is soft-spoken, humble and lives (for some time) without access to an overflow of money. (At least, that is the agenda of her housemates, and of many other Asian women making the expensive trip to the US.) Her driver and guide, Frank (Wu Xiubo), can be found on the opposite end of the personality spectrum. Funded by a neglectful and very much married “sugar daddy,” Jiajia travels from China to Seattle, Washington to give birth to an American citizen. Jiajia’s style is gaudy, her disposition foul and her demands reflect the insatiable desires of the arrogantly wealthy. Our leading lady, Wen Jiajia (Tang Wei), has all the right ingredients needed to make a spectacle of herself. Right does not disappoint when it comes to comedy, there are also somber undertones too. When a film begins with a woman dramatically and quite comically adjusting a baby-bump proof, Velcro stomach wrap in an airport bathroom, one may feel as though entertainment is well underway. ![]() Cast: Tang Wei, Wu Xiubo, Liu Yiwei, Song Meiman, Elaine Jin ![]()
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