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Kc
Aidan
Caitlin
Nick
Lauren
Keegan

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Akshay
Alexa
Finn
Mila
Osama

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Brings the family together and on the other hand brings conflict

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Nai Nai's sickness brings up the thought of what will happen next, while also creating a tense atmosphere for the characters and audience.

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Cebastian
Daniil
Steven
Tae
Nicholas
Zoe

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Crystal
Jacob
Jenna
Luka
Sofia
Sydney

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Is used as an excuse for the family to come together without letting the grandmother know about her illness.
It also serves as something to keep the family working together to plan the wedding. As it is the cause for many of the scenes that occur like the photo shot talk, and the banquet hall scene.

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A Chinese-American woman named Billi returns to China when her beloved grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time. This difference in opinion leads to a clash between Billi and members of her family. As she contemplates telling her grandmother the truth.

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Diana Bahirian
Andrea Romero Solorzano
Ishmael Ali
Jamie Bailey
Juan Jimenez Vargas
Michael Gartshore
Nawaf Rihani

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-chinese-american
-used to be passionate about paino
-struggling for money
-lives in an apartment in New York alone, visits and eats dinner family often.
-is close with her grandmother (nai nai) evident from phone calls.
-emotional as family thinks she wont be able to take the secret

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The members of the family all have different and conflicting ideas about life and the events of the film. For example, Billi, and other members of the family have issues over not telling Nai Nai about her cancer, while other family members believe that it is in her best interest that she doesn't know. There is also a clear divide in the family over nationality. Some are proud of their Chinese identity, while others see themselves as Americans. In the middle are family members who see themselves as Chinese, even though they live in a different country.

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This recurrent scene where the family gets together to eat stands out because we can see and even feel the tension between them, some of them trying to hide their sadness and the truth from Nai Nai. We see a family that even though they are falling apart is trying to hold together one last time for her.

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After her parents telling her not to visit, Billi travels to see Nai Nai which leads to a suspenseful moment as to whether or not she'd reveal to Nai Nai that she knew about her sickness.

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-got diagnosed with cancer, but has no idea about her illness (family keeps it a secret)
-feels lonely until her family comes to visit her in China for a fake wedding (really to say their goodbyes)
-hasn't seen some of her family members in years (as most of them left China long time ago to pursue success and find "better life")
-very traditional and caring
-is very unaware of her real health state and thinks that her exercises keep her healthy
-character based on the directs real grandmother

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As grandma walked up the stairs, she was easily out of breath, foreshadowing her health declining.

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Can be used as a symbol for a pretty story told in the midst of a depressing reality. The family is attempting to make it seem as though everything is fine around Nai Nai, however, she has a fatal illness. The setting around the painting (in the hospital) further emphasizes the contrast.

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The amount of light contributes to the way audience should feel about the certain scene. The US side is shown as well-lighted and contrast, while China has more pastel tones that are shown in a more gloomy and disaturated way.

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Having Billi there as her grandma's favorite is really important as she's the one whos most affected and can't conceal her emotions. so her being in China adds to the suspense because we don't know whether or not she's gonna tell her.

She also severs as a contrast to the family and many Chinese families opinion that the grandma should not know that she is sick. Allowing for the audience to see both sides of things, and question whether the family will change there mind and agree with her.

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Visual Elements were used effectively to portray different messages with regards to characters' emotion. Rule of third for example was used in one of the scenes where Billi is sitting on one third of the scene in which we can see her facial expression and her emotion whilst at the same time seeing the reaction of her family in the background.

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The 2nd family dinner created a lot of suspense. The main protagonist, Billi, is dug into by her family and called a stock investment.

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The initial mask of "going to a wedding in China" introduces the concept of deception to the audience and the reasoning behind it. The family mainly wishes to see Nai Nai (who does not know she's ill), and the movie often questions whether it is good or bad to lie in any situation, especially to loved ones.

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I think the title of the movie also creates foreshadowing or an expectation. With the sickness the title signifies that we will be saying or hear the family say farewell to the beloved Nai Nai

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The fact that some of the family members don't live in China is important to the plot because it creates tension/conflict within the family. It also establishes this family reunion to be a big deal, and to need some kind of justification (hence why they need the wedding excuse).

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When a bird visits Billi, it is usually a sign her grandmothers health is declining. We see one in the beginning before she learns about her grandmas condition, and again in the hotel when her health worsens.

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-He is close to his mother(Nai Nai) as he finds it hard to hide his physical signs of sadness.

- He moved away from his mother and lives in America

-Works as a translator
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A repetitive source of dysfunction in the family.

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Likely a symbol of helplessness.