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The Wedding Banquet Gives a Familiar Story a Radical New Ending
If the 1993 Wedding Banquet presented an impressively progressive (for its time) vision of queer family, the new iteration invites us to dream bigger.
But the idea of embracing hope extends well past Lee’s IVF — it feels like a central tenet to The Wedding Banquet, an unapologetically queer film released in the midst of rapidly escalating government repression. When Wai-Tung agrees to marry Wei-Wei (May Chin) so she can get a green card and he can get his parents off his back, Mr. and Mrs. Gao (Lung Sihung and Gua Ah-leh) make a surprise trip to New York to meet their future daughter-in-law. Instead, everyone gets what they want (regardless of whatever inevitable complications follow), and we close on the creation of a queer family that’s more balanced and inclusive than what Ang Lee and co-screenwriters Neil Peng and James Schamus were able to envision.
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