Conflict Analysis Bad Serial Weddings

In this conflict analysis paper, I chose a French film named bad serial weddings to analyze. The movie described the weddings of four daughters in a French Catholic family. To my surprise, the four bridegrooms are Jew (David), Muslim (Rashid), Chinese (Chao) and a Catholic black male (Charles). The different identities of bridegrooms depressed their Catholic parents (Claude & Marie) and created many problems. The main conflict in this family is the relationship issues resulted from the diverse cultures, religions and ethnicities of these four bridegrooms. Thus, I want to analyze the conflicts in this family by using two main theories, the first theory is Conflict Climate Theory, and the second theory is Politeness Theory.
Conflict Climate
There is a scene which the whole family were having dinner together, however, due to some cultural difference, each bridegroom was feeling attacked by others. And they started arguing to each other, even using some curse words. Compared to the conflicts between bridegrooms, the conflicts between bridegrooms and their father-in-law (Claude) seems like gentler, although they are still arguing. For instance, when the bridegrooms have argument with each other, they used offensive words, and aggressive fascial expressions and even some physical abuses. When each bridegroom was having argument with Claude, they didn’t use offensive words, and they used more question sentences, like “Don’t you think…?” or “What’s your opinion of…?”. The power difference between the bridegroom and Claude changes the ways the bridegrooms treat another party in a conflict. Claude, as the father-in-law, has the more powers than the bridegrooms because bridegrooms need to respect and be aware of him. Father-in-law this identity gives Claude more powers than the bridegrooms. Power difference is the inherent reason which causes the different conflict climates between bridegrooms and their