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Vianne was boycotted by some conservatives, especially the count. But finally, with using the human freedom and self, Vianne opened the door to the desire and pursuit of the people in the town.

Of course, there are many cultural conflicts in the film. But what impressed me most was the cultural conflict of Vianne. This was her character's own contradictions, but these contradictions also made the character more real. At the same time, seemingly contradictory belonged to Vianne herself, but also reflected the conflict between values and cultural differences.

In the film, when the wind came, with the family's mission and responsibility, Vianne prepared to leave the village to go to the next place. Before her leaving, Josephine stopped her by asking her,“Do you believe anything you told me? Do you believe I can be better?” Vianne did not answer her, in fact, this question was also what she always asked herself. \"Can I break through the family tradition? Do I have the ability to be better?\" Factually, she told everyone should follow the feeling, but she only followed the north wind.

Here the culture conflict is mainly about whether we should restrain ourselves in order to rite things or follow the heart and do what we want to do. Though this conflict was on Vianne herself, it was the common point of the all cultural conflicts in the whole movie. At the same time, it was the reason why intercultural communication was relatively easy to cause culture conflict.

From the perspective of theory, intercultural communication refers to any one of the world's people or cultural groups, without regarding to the extent of their civilization, have a fixed pattern of culture as their own standards to determine whether other cultural groups are scientific and reasonable, and insist their own cultural values are correct. Therefore, people from different cultures in the world, due to their own cultural values and ways of doing things, are easy to lead to the same behavior in different cultures have different meanings.

The cultural conflict is a very common phenomenon in intercultural communication, and it also has its rationality and necessity. The so-called cultural conflict mainly refers to the different cultural subjects have the relationship of opposing or denying each other in the political and legal thoughts, moral religion, philosophy, values, social psychology, traditional habits, customs, and other aspects. In other words, it is the conflict of the social subjects in the spiritual disposition and ideology.

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Here are some characteristics of cultural conflicts. Firstly, cultural conflicts are nonlinear. It means that inhomogeneous cultures like different waters, and a few or many waters of the conflict is often

complex. Secondly, cultural conflicts are indirect. It means that cultural conflicts are in the psychological, emotional, ideological and other spiritual areas. So the result is that people unknowingly changed, and this change takes a long time to show. Thirdly, cultural conflicts are internal. It means that concept is the core of the culture, and cultural conflicts are often reflected in the conflict of concepts. Fourthly, cultural conflicts are blending. It means that cultural conflicts and cultural blending are always accompanying with each other.

At present, there are two main reasons for the cultural conflict. Firstly, the specifications of behaviors are different. The specific

meaning of the behavioral criterion is the moral standard and the code of conduct which is shared by the society. It is simply to tell people what shall do and what shall not do. When people in different cultural

backgrounds in communication, a phenomenon often occurs is using their own social norms to determine the behavior of the others is reasonable. Therefore, differences of behaviors are often

misunderstood, and even worse. Secondly, the value orientation is different. People's communicative ability is produced in the process of socialization, which is bound to be linked with the value. Each culture has its own unique value system which can help people to distinguish between beauty and ugliness, kindness and evil.This is people's

philosophy of life, moral standards and norms of behavior. But it can not be separated from the specific culture. Because each culture is different, for example, we think something is good, while another culture maybe considers not. But they have their rationality in their own cultural system. So we can’t say that this is a advanced value, or another value standard behind.

The contradiction about Vianne in the film embodied the theory of intercultural communication and cultural conflicts.

Firstly, Vianne burdened with the habit, mission and responsibility of the family. In fact, they tramped is because of the fear of stability brings the mediocrity, and they unwilling to fixed compromise their own

personality. So even if Vianne’s heart did not want to leave, she had to be ready for departure. Here reflects cultural conflicts are internal. The fear and unwilling to compromise were Vianne and her family’s inner thoughts and ideas, and external performance was they must left following the north wind. Seemingly the reason of leaving was just to spread the secret of cocoa powder, but factually this was only an excuse.

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Secondly, as she said to her daughter, it was not easy to be a different person. So they choose to stray, every place to stay for some time, and left before people began to understand them. So they can not care about “people talk”, and did not care about or escaped the people's expectations and requirements. In fact, Vianne had started to care about the opinions of others in this town. She could be happy because her friends were happy sad because of Amanda's departure. She was no longer the one could come and go without a trace, but she was still pretending that she was. Here reflects cultural conflicts are indirect. When Vianne came to the town, she did not influenced by others. But in the process of dealing with people, she gradually began to care about her friends. Finally, she stayed because of friends’ detention and changed the tradition of straying.

Thirdly, Vianne strayed to many places appears to be constantly changing, but when she and her ancestors do not want to stay in a place for more than a year, it became a rut. Therefore, if Vianne let your life was tied to a mission and tradition, then she and people of the village did not have any differences. People of the village were public opinion and religious kidnapping, while Vianne was kidnapped by her own heart. People adhered to the conservative and religious ideas, while Vianne adhered to the tradition of her family. Here reflects cultural conflicts are blending. the conflict of the stability and straying appeared alternately. Also, straying as a kind of habit and straying itself were in constant conflict.

The reasons for these cultural conflicts were also reflected in the film.

On the one hand, Vianne family’s tradition as a code of conduct was to posterity strayed on and on. Therefore, Vianne also strictly followed the traditional and kept moving. As for Vianne herself, her own

requirements were just following feelings, enjoying life and living with happiness. So conflicts of Vianne’s own requirements and Vianne family’s tradition turned out to be Vianne’s inner entanglement and leaving uncertain.

On the other hand, the value orientation of the Vianne family was using straying to refuse to be mediocre and through spreading the secret of cocoa powder to help others and to realize their own value. While Vianne's own value was treasuring happiness in every minutes and seeking the freedom instead of being external things bounded. Therefore, the contradiction between tradition and Vianne’s own pursuit turned out to be that she was willing to help others and taking unusual ways, and also she did not want to stray.

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Cultural conflicts in the film ultimately had a trend of integration.

That is to say, cultural conflicts can be reduced or avoided through using some measures.

Firstly, we should use effective, appropriate, flexible and creative way to communicate. Vianne persuaded herself to solve her own contradictions. She communicated with her heart softly, and tried to change and create. So finally, she let herself no longer to conflict and had a happy life.

Secondly, we should have a wide range of knowledge and respect for different world views and ways to resolve conflicts. Vianne was a connotational woman, and her heart was extremely powerful, so she was also able to respect different existences. Vianne family’s used straying to avoid mediocrity, while Vianne decided to use stability, integration and changing others to realize her own value. Therefore, Vianne chose a gentle way to solve the conflict.

Thirdly, we should pay close attention to the similarities and differences between high context and low context. Vianne family’s tradition had gone through many generations, so it was hard to be

changed, but Vianne was unwilling to wrong herself. So she sought the similarities and differences between family tradition and her own will. Gradually, she found that both were unwilling to be mediocre and pursuing freedom, only in different ways. So she tried to use a more comfortable way to achieve the ultimate goal. Finally, she chose to let her mother's ashes go with the wind and settled down in this village. Here was cultural conflicts transformed into the cultural blending. Vianne no longer had contradiction, and she finally can also pursue her own freedom.

At the end of the film, the north wind was leaving alone and spring was coming. All the unreasonable self restraints would be the same as the winter snow faded away with the arrival of spring.

So, why not enjoy pleasure in a good time? Follow your heart and enjoy yourself.

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Follow your heart and enjoy yourself

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