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The Treatment is a Chinese movie released in 2001 starring Tony Leung Ka-Fai. It is a story about cultural conflicts experienced by a Chinese family in the USA.
The grandpa visits from China and gives his grandson a treatment of Gua Sha. The authorities consider the harmless traditional Chinese medical treatment child abuse. The family goes through hell when the child is taken away by the child protection agency. . Meanwhile, the grandpa leaves America as he finds that the living environment is really not suitable for him as he feels that a simple harmless treatment like gua sha which is so common in china is treated as child abuse in America. Furthermore, he cannot converse in English. An American friend of the father (Tony Leung) tries gua sha and proves that the treatment leaves painful looking marks but are not painful at all. Finally the child is able to return home and the family is reunited.
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