Looking for a good movie on Netflix right about now? We can relate. Try Meditation Park—it tells the story of 60-something Maria Wang (played by Cheng Pei Pei), who’s emigrated to Canada from China. She has been a dutiful (translation: submissive) wife but makes a surprising discovery one day while doing laundry, and the truth begins to unfurl: Her husband is having an affair.
The main character rallies with the simple statement, “I can do more.”
Slowly, as she sees that the life she thought she had was an illusion, she begins to discover a new, more independent way of life. Filmmaker Mina Shum has said that Chinese women of Maria’s generation were raised to obey their fathers, then their husbands, and finally their sons—she wanted to explore what would happen if a woman broke with that routine and was liberated from those strictures.
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