导演：杨启
编剧：杨启
主演：简缙瑶、埃莉娜·A·拉文森
制片人：姜欣、杨启
摄影：辛然
类型：剧情短片
时长：20分钟
完成时间：2023
对白语言：粤语、英语
地区：美国
制片公司：无

Director: Qi Yang
Screenwriter: Qi Yang
Cast: Jinyao Jian, Elena A.Lavenson
Producer: Xin Jiang, Qi Yang
Cinematographer: Ran Xin
Genre: Feature Short Film
Length: 20min
Year: 2023
Dialogue: Cantonese, English
Region: USA
Production Company: —

当莉莉的母亲从中国来访时，住在旧金山的一对女同伴侣埃琳娜和莉莉之间最终爆发了冲突。 然而，一开始，莉莉的妻子埃琳娜对胜利异常友好。 很快，这种和谐的气氛和风景就要因为她们的女儿苏西而被打破。

Conflict eventually erupts between Elena and Lili, a lesbian couple living in San Francisco, when Lili’s mother arrives for a visit from China. However, at the very beginning, Elena, Lily’s lesbian partner, is unusually friendly to Shengli. Soon, this harmonious atmosphere and scenery are going to be broken because of the couple’s daughter Susie.

杨启

2013-2017 成都，电子工程，理学学士；2018-2020 上海，剧组/抖音短视频制作/艺术留学公司作品集制作；2021-2023 旧金山，电影制作，文学硕士。

Qi Yang

2013-2017 Chengdu, China, Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering; 2018-2020 Shanghai, China, film crews / Tiktok content creator / getting paid to help others’ film portfolio; 2021-2023 San Francisco, Master of Arts in Film Production.

作为一个生活在北加州的亚裔社区的人，在美国这样一个包容、多种族、多文化的国家里，我时常想为生活在这里的亚裔居民、亚裔美国人——尤其是来自我自己国家的人，中国人——发声。

因此，我愿意通过我的影片来展现亚裔群体所遭遇的困难、不公和歧视，以及他们的长处、优势和展现出来的人文关怀。此外，我还会关注我们这个群体固有的缺点，以及我们自己可能无法接受的、固有的令人感到烦躁的刻板印象。

我爱我的祖国，因为我在那里长大。但到头来，我总能听到有人悄悄地对我说，如果你爱你的国家，你就不应该批评她。好吧。

顺便说一句，我深受台湾导演杨德昌的影响，也正如你们看到的那样，在前两个自然段里，我套用了杨德昌曾对公众说过的东西。我热爱电影，但同时也仅仅只把电影当作一个工具来使用。我坚信电影的影响力，但同时也认为电影在当下的时代正在消亡。

As a person from the Asian community living in the North California, in a country as inclusive and multi-ethnic and multi-cultural as the United States, I want to be a part of the voice for the Asian residents, Asian Americans living here – especially the people who come from my own country, we Chinese.

For this reason, through my film, I’m willing to show the difficulties, injustices, and discrimination encountered by Asian people, as well as their strengths, advantages, and humanistic care. Moreover, I’m gonna also focus on the disadvantages inherent to our community and the inherent annoying stereotypes that may not be accepted by the people ourselves.

It is precisely because of those social themes that I want to touch on, that I strive to make a film that is objective and critical. Some people may say that if you love your people, you shouldn’t call them names, which is not true. But I think that if you just keep saying good things for a certain object, then you will never make me feel that you have your own mind. If a person has a mind, it must be two-sided –there are two sides to everything.

I love my country, because I grew up there. But in the end, I always hear someone whispering to me that, if you love your country, you shouldn’t criticize it. Ok.

By the way, I am deeply influenced by Taiwanese director Edward Yang, and as you have seen, in the two past paragraphs, I have learned to template what Edward once said to the public. In conclusion, I would like to say that I love movies, but at the same time use them only as a tool. I strongly believe in the impact of movies, but at the same time I believe that movies are dying in the current times.