Compared to Julie Child's saga, Julia's story is more universal. Julia is an ordinary white-collar worker in a midlife crisis. Living in a poor area, sleeping with the noise from the road every day, I love cooking but only have a small kitchen. She used to be a promising young editor and dreamed of becoming a writer, so she quit her job to write a novel, but it took eight years for her to finish the novel, and no publisher was willing to publish it. At the age of 30, he re-entered the workplace, with a low salary in front of the telephone operator, and endured vexatious calls every day. At the class reunion, the best friends of the year were already in important positions. She had to pretend that she was busy too, but she couldn't hide her loss.
By chance, with the encouragement of her husband, Julia, who loves cooking, decided to spend a year in her spare time making 524 dishes on Julie's cookbook, and recorded the process with a blog. It's a tough goal, shopping and cooking according to a recipe after a tiring day at work. Julia experienced a lot of failures in trying the recipe. She wanted to give up several times. Her mother thought the plan was unrealistic and was very opposed. Mother sneered that her blog was not read; she neglected her family because cooking took up too much time, and she quarreled with her husband, who ran away from home.
In the end, Julia kept the clouds open to see the moon, and completed this impossible plan. According to the general method of chicken soup for the soul, Julia should succeed. Maybe she will get a chance to meet the legendary chef Julie, and be praised by Julie herself. The truth is that Julie, in her 90s, not only doesn't appreciate her, she slams her, thinking her blog is disrespectful to cooking. Julia did publish a book because of her blog's influence, fulfilling her dream of becoming a writer, but these only appear in the end credits, and the film itself almost downplays Julia's success. After a hard year, Julia wrote her last blog and returned to her normal life, with more time to sleep and spend time with her family. She ended up not seeing Julie herself, just like any regular fan, visiting Julie Child's special museum exhibit.
Like cooking, like movies and music, it is a hobby, which is laborious and time-consuming. People with hobbies live more fulfilling lives than people without hobbies, but hobbies don't make you more powerful. Ten thousand girls love to cook, only one becomes Julie Child, and most of them are just Julia Power. So I prefer to think that this is not an inspirational film for women to succeed. Publishing a book will not make Julia lead a successful life, but when she was young, she worked hard for a year for her passion for cooking and for her ideal idol, and achieved an impossible goal. What a beautiful embellishment in life. People who love cooking often love life. It is enough to study a hobby and add some wonderful decorative accents to your life.
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