【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 e Wedding Banquet”, “Eat Drink Man Woman”, and the fantasy martial arts epic “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”.The rest of the cast, with the exception of the veteran Lai Wang, would never have made it into the movie had this not been Ang Lee’s first foray into that, alas, is the movie’s weakest the “Pushing Hands” opens, it’s already been a few months since retired Tai Chi Master (Sihung Lung)moved to America to live with his son Alex(Bo ).Alex is married to the neurotic Martha(Deb Snyder), a writer currently suffering through terrible writer’s it so happens, Martha’s writer’s block started about the same time moved in, and no one is more aware of this fact than its first 20 minutes, the film explores the unspoken conflict between Martha and as they fumble about the house, sharing space in the kitchen and living room, and yet refusing to relationship between the two isn’t cold, it’s nonexistent, and neither cares enough to really try to change film spends much of its time dealing with ’s attempts to e to terms with his new surroundings, which includes teaching Tai Chi at the local Chinese school where Alex’s son also goes to learn the school, runs into (Lai Wang), a widower from Taiwan who teaches a cooking two immediately catches each other’s eye, but realizing there’s an attraction andmaking it happen are two different , a hesitant relationship develops, but is threatened by ’s lack of aggression and ’s belief that she’s just passing time until her inevitable can’t help but notice, especially in stark contrast to , that is still very much alive and kicking, which makes the suffocation of his new environment even more a doubt, the one thing that makes “Pushing Hands” work, even when the movie fumbles to find itself, is Sihung Lung, giving a heartbreaking and winning performance, helped in no small part by a wonderfully written is infused with wisdom about the metaphysical world, but is clueless when it es to romance or picking up on the small inflections of those around wants to catch ’s attention, he throws one of his students(during a kung fu demonstration)into her cooking table, thus giving him the excuse to later visit her house with a “I’m sorry” , at a piic, realizes that Alex has been manipulating him, and he never noticed until points it paraphrase , for a man with such powerful kung fu, it’s incredible how dense is about reading are things about “Pushing Hands” that doesn’t quite work, and most of it, I believe, are owed to the fact that this is Lee’s first movie, and he probably didn’t have as much control or creative leeway as he would have in future the exception of Sihung Lung and Lai Wang, the cast of “Pushing Hands” is hit and does okay as the son, but his performance is oftentimes uneven and same for Deb Snyder, who is unnaturally stiff, and lacks polish as an surprise that the two wouldn’t go on to bee wellknown names, as they seem lost and out of their element for much of the course it probably doesn’t help Snyder’s performance any that Schamus and Lee’s script really doesn’t present a sympathetic portrait of anything, one is hardpressed to believe that someone of Martha’s disposition and personality could ever marry, much less fall in love, with a man like Alex, who is prone to bouts of drunken nights and violent surprisingly, it’s when the movie focuses on its Chinese characters that things ’s burgeoning relationship with is sweet and effective, as well as ’s interactions with his Third Act es as a surprise, as it le