People often say that Chinese culture is broad and profound, but smart, tell me, what exactly is Chinese culture? Wu Qi said a lot, it is not as good as a sentence. "Book of Rites" has a cloud, "eating men and women, people's great desire to live", I am afraid this sentence summarizes the essence of Chinese people, and even human life. What an animal is an animal lies in its food and sex; and what a human being is, it lies in how to beautify its food and its nature, so that it can get rid of the simplicity of animals and make both materialistic and erotic desires more subtle and complex. Since leaves have become dishes, reproduction has become love, and a group of humans who are still eating and distinguishing between men and women have become Chinese. The Chinese have also become dietetic men and women.
Eating men and women, regardless of age. A little woman can be a chef, and an old man can talk about love. This is both a law of nature and a human desire. It is unavoidable for anyone, but there are successes and failures, gains and losses. , and some are both internal and external. Of course, as far as the movie itself is concerned, the director and screenwriter's handling of each group of characters is detailed and unique: on the one hand, each of the three daughters has a clear vertical line, which interweaves to form the main line of the story; On the one hand, his father, Lao Zhu, was very worried from the moment he appeared on the stage, and it was not until the end that he spoke out and revealed his true feelings, thus forming a dark vertical line of the story. The four clues are different, interact in parallel, and are linked by family relationships, and finally together form the theme of "diet men and women". Although people always like to start from these love relationships when analyzing this film, analyze and analyze, and compare and contrast, but they can't find the real focus, because to be fair, looking at the whole movie, the director actually didn't focus on portraying it at all. Any set of romantic relationships. The love story of the eldest and the third is just an appetizer, and the blood of the dog is only for the blogger to laugh; the second child Jiaqian is a failure, and hardly catches up with a good thing from beginning to end; Lao Zhu is a Dark lines, except for a few clues, there is almost no sign of characterization in the film. On the contrary, the most interesting and easily overlooked group of important relationships is the horizontal relationship between Lao Zhu and Jia Qian as family members.
What is the relationship between father and Jiaqian? This is a very complex and very important issue. Catch this "playing eye", and all problems can be solved easily. At the beginning of the film, we can see that their relationship is not harmonious. However, not long after, Jia Qian said by herself, "Anyway, my father doesn't like me recently, and I can't say a word when I meet him." It can be seen that the father and Jiaqian are not in this state for a long time because of personality differences, but only "recently". But what happened "recently" that would cause two people to dislike each other? We don't know this, but it's not without clues, because after watching the whole film, we can be sure that there are only two things "recently" that can make my father unhappy: first, the two daughters move out and the house is empty. Second, my relationship with Jinrong cannot be made public, and I don't know how to open it up, and it's very uncomfortable to hold it in my heart. The former is still after Jiaqian thinks that her father does not like her, so it is far after her father actually sees her as "not pleasing to the eye", so it is basically certain that her father sees Jiaqian as "not pleasing to the eye", and he can't say a few words when they meet each other. The reason for this is his relationship with Jin Rong. At this point, things are even more strange, because there seems to be no logical relationship between the two things; if it is because Jiaqian will definitely prevent his father from living with Jinrong, then the father should obviously dislike the boss, after all, they He used to be a classmate at the university; if his father was afraid that Jiaqian had already noticed something before his attitude towards her changed, it also contradicted the fact that Jiaqian knew the truth with everyone almost at the end.
To solve this problem, we still have to go back to the film itself. In the final analysis, my father's attitude towards Jiaqian is closely related to how he views Jiaqian in his life. How important is the image of Jiaqian to the father? Although it is not directly conveyed through the language of the characters, the film hints to us many times through photos that the wife of the father's deceased and Jia Qian are the most similar, or even the same. Because of this, my father would let Jia Qian go into the kitchen and learn how to cook, and only let her have this privilege; for my father, Jia Qian was the incarnation of his deceased wife, as long as there was such a person by his side. , it is impossible for the father to open his mouth and say the things that he and Jinrong have made good friends with. Even if Jia Qian didn't know about it at all, her father would have some scruples about her. The stronger the father's affection for Jinrong, the stronger his affection for Jiaqian. The two complement each other, and eventually Jiaqian will think that his father is "unpleasant" to her.
At the reunion dinner, everyone broke up because Aunt Liang was crying, and his father followed him out. Seeing Jiaqian alone at the dinner table watching him cry, in desperation, he had to flee. Jiaqian's tears, I think, on the one hand, they are laughing at herself for being amorous and eventful. She actually turned down the opportunity to go to Amsterdam because of her father, thinking that her father went to the hospital for a checkup because of a heart problem, but she just wanted a medical report to prove her health. On the other hand, it is more sentimental about his father being disrespectful and unfaithful. It's just that Jia Qian's nothing made her understand that a good man is too important and too difficult, because he must have the kindness of the boss, the persistence of the third husband, and the demeanor and elegance of Li Kai; The father who had all three o’clock lost his wife early, the pain in his heart was unspeakable, the loss of an old friend was lonely and unbearable, and even the sense of taste that he depended on for a living gradually lost. If you think about it, what else is incomprehensible? After all, eating men and women is a human desire.
In the end, a big stone in my father's heart finally fell, and the sense of taste was finally restored. Jiaqian filled a bowl of soup, and her father held her hand and called out "daughter", which is subtle and meaningful. Why does the father care about the opinions of the eldest and the third? Why should Aunt Liang agree or not? I'm afraid that what he cares most about in this world is Jia Qian's opinion. And Jiaqian can accompany her as a daughter, and she can forgive her as a wife incarnate, so everything is beyond words.
The family itself is a very delicate and intricate network, with longitudes and latitudes, criss-crossing; explaining the relationship between the father and Jiaqian actually just provides a different way of interpretation. For the other character relationships and storylines in the film, everyone can feel comfortable and even find their own shadow in the film. There are eight kinds of cuisines in the world. There are thousands of dishes, and after falling in love, it is even more bizarre and omnipresent. Just as Mr. Zhu said, "Life cannot be like cooking, and all the ingredients are ready before cooking." In "Diet Men and Women", not everyone is eating, but everyone is loving and hating. For the Chinese, this kind of love and hatred maintains the existence of the family, ups and downs, no matter how strong or weak, as long as the five flavors are still mixed, the family will still exist; as long as there are men and women in the world, they must belong to the family in the end; and as long as there are In a family, everyone must be able to sit together and have a reunion dinner. All in all, eating men and women may be talking about diet, maybe it is talking about men and women, but in the final analysis, it is inseparable from family, tradition, the Book of Rites, and Chinese patriarchal traditions and traditions for thousands of years. family culture. I think that's what "Diet Men and Women" is all about, and it's what the "Family Trilogy" is all about.
The success of the "Family Trilogy" lies not only in the story with great conflict and depth, but also in the director's powerful control of the film's atmosphere. Whether it is the punching at the beginning of "Pushing Hands", the photography in "The Wedding Banquet", or the chicken catching in "Eating and Drinking Men and Women", whether it is movement or stillness, Ang Lee can find humor in it, and this kind of humor is not simple. It's ridiculous, but deeply rooted in culture. This kind of humor is usually difficult to detect, but it makes people laugh after watching it, reflecting the full observation and expressive power of Ang Lee's early films. Of course, this expressive power comes not only from the director's technique, but also from the actors themselves. As the only actor who has a large role in the three films, Lang Xiong's performance can be said to be outstanding. The father he plays is very flavorful, severe, calm and loving, complex, sad and straightforward. And the almost color character Aunt Liang was also brought to the extreme by Gui Yalei. As long as she opened her mouth, Xiang Yin was everywhere, her emotions were free, and her performance was relaxed. From the exhaustion of mountains and rivers before "Pushing Hands", to the dark and bright flowers after "The Wedding Banquet", to the praise and criticism of "Diet Men and Women", Ang Lee has crossed three mountains year after year, experienced the ups and downs in life, and made up for the failure of the college entrance examination. The bitterness and anguish have regained confidence and hope. It is hard to say "success", but at least there are a lot of gains. For him, the movie is not only a living, but also a life, a panacea to save the dying, and Noah's Ark to save the fire.
So I secretly thought, in addition to food and men and women, people's great desires may also have to make movies?
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