＊Julie
is an ordinary little woman who can no longer be ordinary. Her work is extremely boring, but she has to bite the bullet for reality. The apartment is small and dilapidated, and it is still upstairs in a pizza shop, sleeping with all kinds of noise every day. The former girlfriends all had successful careers, and all of them had ideals, careers and pursuits. Only she, nearly thirty years old, has achieved nothing, everything is abandoned halfway, complaining about ADD (attention distraction), but the little voice in her heart is still shouting, you are a self-pity, self-pity and selfish little woman. Fortunately, there is a husband who loves her, otherwise, I really have to find a big tofu to kill her.
Such an imperfect little woman makes me and other ordinary people have a great sense of identity. We are all like this, the pressure from real life, the pressure from friends who are more successful than ourselves, spend a lot of time mediocre, and the rest of the time is self-pity. But there is always something we would like to do, something we can enjoy. For Julie, it's cooking. Every day dinner is her sanctuary, an escape from real life. So when she found Julia's cookbook and set herself a yearly goal of 524 dishes, life seemed to have a new impetus.
With the deepening of the Project, she not only learned how to cook, she became fascinated with Julia, her energy and enthusiasm seemed to leap from the paper, and she personally taught her how to cook. Teach her how to face life.
*Julia
This is another main line of the film. The legendary American chef Julia Child is not a born chef. She didn't even know how to boil eggs when she got married. But French cuisine sparked her passion. There is also the indomitable spirit of perseverance that is unique to the Americans in her. An American housewife finds her way in life in the high-class kitchen of the Le Cordon Bleu School in France. It may seem unrealistic, but that's the magic of legend. Everything is impossible.
The ingeniousness of the film lies in the handling of the relationship between the two protagonists. At the beginning, there are two completely different worlds, one is a romantic France, the other is a chaotic New York, the other is a new life full of unknowns, and the other is a boring ordinary life. But they all have a yearning for food, and they all worked hard to make a meal, and they were sincerely happy for the delicious food they made. Finally, time and space intersect, and their lives seem to be getting closer and closer, with the same dish, the same taste, and the same sigh. Similarly, they found joy and meaning in life.
When you make Julia's Beef Stew in Red Wine, you'll find that goodness can be simple.
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