I have found I have enjoyed watching the movies that have been asigned for our class, so far I hadn’t seen any of them prior to this.  Although, this last movie, Saving Face, was not one that I thoroughly enjoyed but certainly learned from.   This movie shows what role family culture can play in one’s life.   The daughter, Wil, is a young aspiring physician who is also a lesbian, who falls in love with her boss’s daughter.  The two girls are torn between their attraction and their families to do the right thing.  Both girls want it all but can’t do it all.  Wil’s mother, 48 and unmarried, comes up pregnant and her father completely banished her from their home.  She moves in with Wil and tries to take over, which is funny to watch how they interact now with such different lives as well as with her daughter’s habits and friends.  This movie took so many “wrongs” and tried to make them right.  The love affair of the mother with a younger man was frowned upon so much that she was going to marry another man just to save her relationship with her father as well as his reputation in his own community.   But at the end she was able to happily unite with him and still be in good graces with everyone else.  Wil and Viv have a quiet lesbian relationship but once their families find out it seems that Wil is still a little afraid to tell her mother.  It takes time but she tells her and gets the response that she expected and Wil’s boss also finds out that they have a realtionship and he tells her how she is getting in between Viv and her success.  Also, another happy outcome for these two girls as it happens that their family are the ones to get them back together, they would rather see them happy in their lesbian relationship.    The father/grandfather finally begins to come around more after the sudden death of his wife–he sees what is important to his family. 

I have to be honest and say that I did not like having to watch the girls together.  They could have left out the intimate parts and then the movie would have been a good one!