《刮痧》电影英语观后感

East meets West

Impression On the Film Gua Sha Treatment Gua Sha Treatment is a film directed by Zheng Xiaolong in 2001, in which Liang Jiahui and Jiang Wenli are the main performers. The major contradiction shown in the film directly presents the distinguished differences between Chinese and American cultures. I’d like to share my own ideas based on the overview of the entire movie.

After years of hard work in the area of video game, Xu Datong, a Chinese immigrant to the US, has finally achieved success as an outstanding designer. With his promising career and loving family, he feels he has become a true American. One day, Datong’s father comes over from China and uses a traditional Chinese medical technique, called GuaSha, to treat Datong`s son, Dennis. Unexpectedly, an American doctor thinks the bruises on Dennis’ back left by the GuaSha treatment are signs of child abuse, the doctor called the Children's Rights Protection Centre take Dennis to stay away from his families . But for the grandfather of Dennis can get the Green Card, so Datong is charged with the behavior and the finger is pointed at him. He must prove that the scraping is a treatment to reunite his son and family. The Treatment is a true portrayal of the enormous gulfs between cultures and their possible repercussion between cultures and their possible

repercussions.

Chinese culture has thousands of years’ history and forms its own unique ethic. Caring for the youngs, ancestor worship and the proliferation of offspring, which also forms our Chinese characteristic "playing a pro, yelled at love." The traditional concept, people only grow up on our land can really understand its meanings. In the film Da Tong's son Dennis does n’t understand that, so he and his playmates always have contradictions. This is the difference between Chinese and Western in Family Ethics. In medicine there is another difference, westerners are difficult to understand Chinese scraping therapy. In court, lawyers and judges are confused when it comes to traditional Chinese medicine. In fact, even Chinese, a lot of people do not really understand traditional Chinese medicine theory of Yin and Yang, the five elements, meridians. The film also allows us to think about the prospect of Chinese medicine. In today's quick success, if we want to rejuvenate our traditional Chinese medicine, especially to win widespread acceptance in the world, we should try our best to communicate with western world! Fortunately, Chinese medicine’s efficacy of the treatment has gotten a lot of people's attention, it has gradually been accepted.

Datong’s boss went to court to give his hands to Datong, but when he sees the pictures on the result of Dennis’s wounds, he doesn’t say anything . This also caused strong resentment of