...and yet they are nice to him always, and try to save him, and even memorialize him afterwards - while they should be spitting on his grave.
Well, they are Chinese; they take the whole "filial piety" thing very seriously over there.
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Well, that IS why they ran away!
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shareI actually enjoyed the way the family dynamics were portrayed in this movie both with Katy and her family and also with the siblings and their (power crazy/ grieving/ clearly under the influence of the Ten Rings) Dad.
And whilst you are correct that the Dad made all the WORST possible parenting choices after his wife had died, I kind of liked how in that final battle between Shang-Chi and his Dad, how his Father finally saw that the son had become his own person and acquiesced his own defeat.
I think Bateman is spot on that this was a classic display of traditional Chinese ‘familial reverence’ and it made a nice change from all the emo/drama of most of these kinds of films.