I'm not sure I understand the moral of the story.What was the moral we were supposed to take from her reconciling with her Panda self and showing if off openly at the end?Is the red panda supposed to be puberty or feminity or sexuality or her Chinese heritage or all of the above?How is the fact that this girl is getting paid to show off her panda figure into the metaphor? Is it about commercialising sexuality or Chinese culture?The mother who locked away her panda , was she denying or her culture or was she sexually repressed?
>>152140474>Is the red panda supposed to be puberty or feminity or sexuality or her Chinese heritage or all of the above?Any of these is correct. It has layers to it so people from all sorts of backgrounds can relate to it.>How is the fact that this girl is getting paid to show off her panda figure into the metaphor? Is it about commercialising sexuality or Chinese culture?It was just classic teenage rebellion in the face of unreasonable limits imposed by her mom. She wouldn't let Mei go to the concert because she's unreasonably afraid of her daughter's emerging sexuality and just how she's growing up in general (and of course she's not going to tell Mei this), so they needed to get money from somewhere else. You WERE supposed to guffaw at Mei going "my body my choice" not because she's wrong, but because her saying that is an unintended overreaction to her mom's actions but she has no other way to express her frustration.>The mother who locked away her panda , was she denying or her culture or was she sexually repressed?Like I said above, the panda is kind of whatever you see it as. Remember the mom basically eloped with the dad who her family didn't like. So for her specifically I'd say the panda represented "imperfection" and the mom being afraid of it. Which tracks because she was actually from and grew up in China, while Mei grew up in Canada.
>>152140474the moral is let your kids be whores and let them sell their bodys.
