The movie Shower showcases the changing of Chinese society, in which people more work centered, and pays less attention to families. Furthermore, it showcases how the urban people look down upon the traditional people.

It starts with someone going to a shower booth. I personally believe this to be the most eye opening scene, while at the same time pushing the objective of the director; that is showing the discrepancies and gaps between the fast paced urban centers and slower paced tradition neighborhood. The people goes into the booth, takes off his clothes and puts it into a basket, which he then puts into some vents. I am still uncertain of what that was suppose to do though. Perhaps wash the clothes for him or spray perfume on it to make it smell better? In any case, he goes into this room where brushes begin cleaning him as if he was a car in a car wash.

That man ends up receiving a letter from his little brother, whom is retarded, and makes that man think his father was dead. As such, he rushed back to his hometown where he realized that he misinterpreted the letter. The relationship between the father and the man seems relatively dense when compared to the little brother’s relationship to the father. 

Originally, he was planning to return back home immediately when he realized that his father was well; However, he ended up loosing his brother while he was a train station because the little brother got attracted to a yellow bicycle. The father get, naturally, upset at him, but the next day, the little brother had returned home on his own. 

The man seemed to have regained his senses while he stayed there, that is, he remembered why he liked the hometown and stopped looking down one the neighborhood folk. On the man’s stay however, his father died, and due to his younger brother, he was forced to stay at his fathers bath and continue business as usual. 

The important thing to mention for the strained relation between the man and his father is that the father never seen the man’s wife. Not during the engagement meet-up, wedding ceremony, or any other occasion. I believe it was a huge insult to the father for the man to hide his wife from his father as such.