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Film Review: The Journey

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Based on the film, 'The Journey ' write an essay analyzing the themes and issues presented in the film.
This heart-warming Malaysian movie has many themes that are very true to our daily lives. Being a multiracial country, many cultures and traditions co-exist. With cultures and traditions come superstitions. In this film, a collision of cultures and traditions occur. This collision of cultures and traditions happen between Bee, Benji and Uncle Chuan. Bee grew up in Malaysia until a certain age of 8-10 and was then after sent to England by her father for better education. Uncle Chuan being strict in cultural and traditional matters finds it hard to accept Benji, the Caucasian man his daughter is engaged to. The superstitious side of Uncle …show more content…

The first issue that was brought up was the perception of parental love. Bee 's mother passed away when Bee was still at a young and tender age. Uncle Chuan who sincerely loves his daughter, sends her away to England with her aunt in hopes of her getting better education. Uncle Chuan farmed up a vegetable plantation to pay for Bee 's education. Not knowing her father did all that for her, Bee comes back home after a long time. Uncle Chuan complains about Bee coming back whenever she wishes to and Bee refutes his complains with the fact that he sent her to England for education purposes. Bee 's perception and Uncle Chuan 's perception of parental love are from 2 different views. Bee 's perception of parental love is that Uncle Chuan didn 't love her enough, so he sent her away to continue her studies. Uncle Chuan 's perception of parental love was that he sent her away to England so she could live a better life with better education so as to not suffer or live the life that he did. This also relates to the career path that Bee chose for herself. Bee chose to pursue art as her career but Uncle Chuan thinks it 's ridiculous and it will not be a decent job. This shows how much Uncle Chuan loves

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