The Confliction of Value Concepts Among Chinese Immigrant Families in America: Take the Movie Everything Everywhere All at Once as an Example

As a small-budget science fiction film, Everything Everywhere All at Once has earned a good reputation at home and abroad for its unpredictable plot and excellent visual effects and has been nominated for 11 Oscars, making Ms. Michelle Yeoh the first Chinese movie star to be nominated for an Oscar. The film presents a typical Chinese American family in a very eye-catching way. In this paper, we will discuss the conflict between Chinese and American values from three perspectives: love, marriage, and education, with the portraits of the characters in the movie and the specific movie plot.

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