Vivian!
Go wash your hands and come eat dinner.
Dìdi, eat a little more.
Nai Nai, I don't want it, I don't want it...
Boys need to eat more in order to have muscle
so they can become a strong man.
Nai Nai, don't feed him.
He can grab it himself.
Look how skinny he is!
If I didn't feed him, he'd be a pile of bones.
Only one month until my little bird flies away...
Don't forget to eat fruit.
It will help your digestive system so your poop isn't so hard.
And you must floss.
You won't be able to see a dentist as easily in college.
He doesn't know yet.
When you go to college, don't go so far.
Just go to Stanford.
You can live at home
and I can cook for you every day if I haven't died yet.
Nai Nai, don't talk like that.
Vivian, don't be so loud.
Dìdi, apologize.
- What is bitch? - Don't say dirty words!
Look,
what kind of a mother allows their children to behave like this?
They scream at each other even at the dinner table.
No class.
Didi, dishes.
Come back. You didn't finish eating.
Hurry back here.
You can't exercise after eating.
It's bad for your stomach.
Don't put the camera on the ground. It's a bad angle.
Your composition will be ugly.
Hurry up then. The food's getting cold.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Old people can't afford to fall.
So we have to stretch and stay active.
Don't film me.
I'm so ugly.
Nai Nai. You're 20 years old.
Can you look at something?
What do you think?
I want to submit it to the National Art Competition.
What are you watching?
Why is he talking like this?
Don't copy him ok?
You should speak normally.
I'm not nagging you.
I'm just caring.
Don't be foolish like them.
Why were you guys fighting?
We were just playing.
Playing? This is playing?
See? You let them go out and this happens.
Children are supposed to be playing with crickets by the creek
or hide and seek in the backyard
and your son is fighting people like a gangster.
If the police sees,
they're going to think you beat him and take him away.
Then he can't get treatment for the wound and he'll go blind
and if he's blind he can't go to college.
If he doesn't go to college, he won't find a good job.
If he doesn't find a good job, he won't find a beautiful wife
and he won't be able to have children.
And the Wang family legacy is over!
You're too dramatic.
If my son were home,
this sort of thing would never happen.
Well he's not here.
Does it hurt?
You pesky kids...
getting through to you is hopeless.
Nai Nai's leaving.
Forget it.
Does it hurt?
Okay then.
Press it against your eye. Don't remove it.
Such a stubborn boy.
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The sun is very strong today.
It's bad for your complexion.
Did you put on lotion today?
Your skin is very dry.
This semester, my Max joined the marching band.
He does badminton...
soccer...
and still has a 4.0 GPA.
You too, Shiu Fang.
Juggling all that must be stressful for you.
His father helps with so much of it.
I could never handle it all myself.
Oh, I see.
And Vivian is going to UCLA next year, right?
Oh, UCSD.
Decent enough.
And what about Chris?
Chris... skates.
And... he makes videos.
Making videos is not bad.
Like a movie director. Like Ang Lee.
You're my little Ang Lee.
Maybe one day he'll thank me in his Oscars speech.
Finding success as an artist is not easy.
Just ask your mother.
Has Chris started PSAT prep yet?
Not yet. It's early, no?
Early?
Chris should have started last year.
You should take him to Max's tutor.
I'll give you his number.
Oh, that'd be great, I'd really appreciate that...
Apple. Eat.
Thank you.
Very good!
I can dance too!
Thank you. I love you.
Are you okay?
You look sad.
If you're not fine, you can also tell me.
I can't focus on driving when it's so loud.
Maybe I did. I am not sure.
I'm helping you.
I'm sniffing the fart away.
The salad I ate today.
Okay.
All gone.
Have you eaten yet?
Eat slower.
You have to let the saliva soak in the food.
How did I give birth to a little dog?
Close your mouth.
Don't show your ABC.
Eating.
I talked to Shiu Fang Ah Yi's tutor today.
It could be good for you.
I already signed you up.
I already paid.
- Give it to me. - Quit nagging me, Nai Nai.
See? This is why the house is so chaotic.
- Because you never let me help. - Stop pushing me...
- I'm almost done washing them. - You really are an incompetent mother.
No wonder my son doesn't want to be home.
Will you go away for one second?
You are such a burden.
What? You think I'm a burden?
All I offer to do is help because clearly you can't handle it.
And if it weren't for my son working, making money...
this family would have nothing
and we would all be homeless.
I'm the reason this house is a home.
Not you.
Not him.
It's me.
I know you find me unworthy.
But I swear...
if you don't stop criticizing me,
I will kick you out.
Do you understand?
I am done.
I lay there for almost three hours.
I call, I call...
nobody responded.
Nai Nai, it's okay.
How many years do I have left?
I won't even be here...
to see Chris graduate high school.
That won't happen, Nai Nai.
You two can feel free to leave.
Let Nai Nai rest.
Vivian?
Are you ok in there?
I have diarrhea.
Oh, okay.
Don't forget to wash your hands.
Let me do it.
Go say bye to Nai Nai.
Make sure you take care of yourself.
I don't need it.
Take it.
Okay, okay, thank you.
Thank you.
Take care of yourself.
Don't forget to eat fruit.
Okay.
I'm going to buy groceries.
Do you need anything?
Don't push me.
Okay, I heard you.
Teacher!
How could you do this?
I don't care. You can't hit people.
Don't say dirty words.
Do you know how your behavior makes me look?
Like I raised a son without a single manner.
You dare say that to me?
I spend my entire life taking care of you.
I work so hard every day.
All for you.
You think this is the life I wanted?
You think this is what I wanted?
You know how much happier I'd be if I didn't have you?
What child would dare talk to their mother like this?
Do you think Max would do this?
Stop it.
Enough.
What?
Come here.
Do you remember when Vivian ran away when she was 14?
She asked me to sleep over at Annie's house,
and I didn't let her.
She looked me straight in the eyes and said,
And then she ran away.
She was gone for three days.
I was so scared.
Then one day, she just came home.
She didn't talk to me.
Wouldn't acknowledge me.
But I was so happy.
Compared to her, you are not so stubborn.
So I knew you would come home.
You know,
Sometimes I sit and think about...
how I ended up here.
So ordinary.
Is this what my life has amounted to?
I wonder...
what if I didn't marry your father
if I didn't have you and Vivian.
What would my life be like?
Maybe I would've come to America by myself.
and I'd have become a successful artist by now
with my own studio in New York.
But then, getting to watch you and Vivian grow up here,
make friends,
and learn so many things I can't teach you,
I realize...
you are my dream.
How could I be ashamed of you?
Come here.
How was today?
Have you eaten yet?