Impression of View --- My Big, Fat Greek Wedding

Someone says, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a very funny movie about an American girl whose family came from Greece. It is a comedy.” But in my opinion, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is not just a romantic comedy full of love. It tells us something about culture and difference between different people. I love it very much. It is moving. Toula Portokalos, the heroine in the movie, a 30-year-old Greek woman with an old look. She is a middle class Greek-American woman who falls in love with a non-Greek upper middle class WASP man, Ian Miller. I learnt a lot of Greek tradition. Such as, “Nice Greek girls are supposed to do three things in life: Marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day we die.” The Greek say that there are two kinds of people in the world. One part is someone who is Greek, the other part is someone who wants to be a Greek. The heroine lives in a traditional family. She is not allowed to marry with her true love. In order to marry with Toula, Ian tries his best to enter this traditional family. He makes great efforts on it. In the end, they hold a big, fat Greek wedding. Every thing is possible if you work hard on it. Where there is a will there is way. This film tells us a love story. But I think it is a story which tells us a lot of things about culture. It is cool. Because of the difference between American culture and Greek culture, Toula’s relatives don’t want her to marry with an American. In American people’s normal viewpoint, when a child grows up, he will leave his family and has his own career. He will live in his own house. It is an opposite with Greek. The movie does not show the common circumstances of American family. Passion, liveliness, unity is a sign of Toula’s family. There are about thirty people in their family. They love each other very much. They care about each other. Greece is a traditional country. It has a long history and a unique geographical position. Because of the wars, the Greeks know how to...