Name: 靳华吉 Kevin
Class：随意的反义词English class 4
Student number：0908010123
East vs West
The appreciation of The Treatment
Abstract:
Part 1 : movie introduction
Part 2 : classic dialogues
Part 3 : movie analysis
Part 4 : reflections
Part 5 :more questions reflected in the movie
Part 6:Conclusion
PART ONE: Movie Introduction
The Treatment (Chine: 刮痧) is a Chine movie relead in 2001 starringTony Leung Ka-Fai. It is a story about cultural conflicts experienced by a Chine family in the USA.
Plot
Grandfather Xu comes from China to visit the family of his son, Datong Xu (Tony Leung), in St. Louis. While there, he gives his grandson, Dennis Xu (Dennis Zhu), a treatment of Gua Sha to treat a slight fever (being unable to read English labels of medicine). The authorities, however, mistake the harmless traditional Chine medical treatment for child abu due to the obvious marks left on Dennis' back. The family goes through hell when the child is taken away by the child protection agency. Meanwhile, Grandfather Xu leaves America becau he finds that the living
environment is really not suitable for him, as he feels that a simple, harmless treatment like Gua Sha, which is so common in China, is treated as child abu in America. Furthermore, he cannot conver in English. An American friend of the father, Benton Davis (Joe Erker), tries gua sha and proves that the treatment leaves painful-looking marks that are not actually painful or harmful at all. Finally, the child is able to return home and the family is reunited.
PART TWO : Classic Dialogues
Dialogue 1
Grandfather Xu: 打是亲骂是爱，不打不骂不成材。
Dennis Xu :What did grandpa say ?
Datong Xu:Grandpa says that daddy hit you for your own good .Becau daddy love you .
Dennis Xu :Did I hit Paul becau I love him ?
(laughter)
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Datong Xu:I don't want to talk to you.
Benton Davis:Datong,I'm so very sorry .I am trying to tell you.
Datong Xu:I said I don't want to talk to you.Would you plea give me a break ?
Benton Davis:I couldn't lie ...They knew everything.
Datong Xu:Leave me alone!I dont have the time to help you to justify your action.I just want to get my son home to get my life back.
Benton Davis:And that's why you more than ever need this job !
Datong Xu:I considered you as my friend,but you sold me out.How the hell do you expect me to work with you again?
Benton Davis:I just told the truth!You shouldnt hit Dennis.
Datong Xu:Why I hit him?Why?My own son!I hit him to show my respect for you,to give you face you know!
Benton Davis:What kind of twisted Chine logic . You had hit your own son so you can show respect to me?
Datong Xu:不可理喻！
Benton Davis:What did you say ?
Datong Let me share this final chine proverb with you :道不同，不相与谋！
Dialogue 3
Datong Xu:Why do I have to prove my love ? What the hell are we doing ,Jenny?
Everything is turning upside down !
Jenny: We can get through this.It's for our son .We should do this for him.
Dialogue 4学生会主席竞选
Datong Xu：我给你买点吃的，飞机上的东西不好消化。
Grandfather Xu：来，你坐这儿。再让爸爸好好看看。我这把年纪了，我不想忘了你长什么样。...丹丹那，我是爱他呀.....我想他，我有照片催财最灵的方法...我可以看照片。
益肺清化颗粒……
熊猫卡通Datong Xu：我来美国在那么多年，我一直把这里当做自己的家。现在家已经破碎成了这个样子，我呆在这里还有什么意思。回到北京，我们还可以过团圆的日子啊
Grandfather Xu：你真有出息呀！你想逃跑吗？你想放弃这场官司啊！还装作什么事情也没有发生过？你这么回去，你还是一个在美国虐待了孩子跑回中国的逃犯！生活就是这样，什么事情都可能发生，你躲是躲不开的。你来美国之前，不是准备了要面对困难的吗？大同啊，把丹丹带回去，就按照你说的，把孩子培养成一个正直的人，有出息的人。
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PART THREE : Movie Analysis
Guasha is a traditional chine medical treatment .It has more than 2000 years' history in China.Iiterally ,is is ud "to scrape away fever" in Chine (more looly, "to scrape away dia by allowing the dia to escape as sandy-looking objects through the skin"). With Guasha ,you can stimulate and increa flow of blood itf and is beneficial to the blood circulation.It is widely ud in China and some neighbouring countries.The origin of this term is the Shang Han Lun, a ~220 CE Chine Medical text on cold induced dia - like most Asian countries China's medical sciences were a profound influence in Vietnam, especially between the 5th and 7th Centuries CE. Some methods u oil balm and a coin to apply pressure to the skin. Others u a boiled egg with a coin inrted in the middle of the yolk. The egg is wrapped in a piece of cloth and rubbed over the forehead (in the ca of a fever) and other areas of skin. After the rubbing, when th
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e coin is removed from the egg, it will appear black. It is also ud in Indonesia. It is a traditional Javane technique, known as kerikan (lit., "scraping technique") or kerokan, and it is very widely ud, as a form of "folk" medicine, upon members of individual houholds. Gua Sha involves repeated pressured strokes over lubricated skin with a smooth edge. Commonly a ceramic Chine soup spoon was ud, or a well worn coin, even honed animal bones, water buffalo horn, or jade. A simple metal cap with a rounded edge is commonly ud. In classical Chine practice, the Gua Sha technique is most commonly ud to:Reduce fever (the technique was ud to treat cholera).Treat fatigue caud by exposure to heat (often ud to treat heat-stroke) or cold.Cough and dyspnea: bronchitis, asthma, emphyma.Treat muscle and tendon injuries.Push sluggish circulation, fibromyalgia.Treat headache.Treat sunstrokes / heat syncope and naua.Treat stiffness, pain, immobility.Treat digestive disorders.Treat urinary, gynecological disorders.To assist with reactions to food poisoning.
But in the USA, Guasha is not recognized as legal form of treatment.So the doct
ors mistakenly consider Guasha a kind of child abu which caud many troubles.I feel very proud that China has a history of 5000 years with highly developed civilization .We are endowed with a vast a of fortune in almost every field ,medicine of cour included.But the problem is ,the fortune we inherited from ancestors are just accepted only in a small circle of all countries in the world .In the 21st century, a time of globalization,it is he ,she ,you and I (everyone of our generation)that are responsible to share our bright civilization to the rest of the world and try to get the world understand .
Not only in this aspect.People in the USA and in China hold to almost totally different opinions on ethical values,education,relationship and even life attitude. It ems that chine children rely on parenets more and when they grow up,they take more attention on their parents .They take it for granted that they should rai the old just like parents raising them. On the contrary, the American children are more independent and creative just becau everything they get ,they get it not free.They need to fight bitterly to ek for what they want .Another differe
nce that must mention is that American people are more simple and direct towards things while Chine are more sophisticated and rerved. This cultural gap ,to a large extent ,is owing to different history backgrounds and social systems and conventions.Sometimes we cannot easily figure out which is better in that both cultures include advantages as well as disadvantages.What we should do is just choo or pick ,not judge I think.
