The Good Lie in ‘The Farewell’
Life is in the surprise, the unexpected.
4 min readOct 3, 2021
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By Jon Ochiai
In Writer and Director Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell”, 31 year-old financially strapped, aspiring writer Billi, played by Awkwafina discovers that her Nai Nai (Grandma in Chinese), played by Shuzhen Zhao, is dying of Stage 4 lung cancer. However, her Family doesn’t tell Nai Nai that she’s sick, that she’s…