The original intention was to look at it casually, but when I watched it, I slowly smiled and focused. Just like what Dad Zhu said in the movie, "diet men and women, people's great desires", such a film that combines deliciousness, desire, and emotion has already had the most attractive capital that should not be underestimated.
An old father who is proficient in cooking, three beautiful daughters with different personalities, an old mansion, a sumptuous and dull dinner for four people every Sunday night. Ang Lee put a lot of effort into portraying the effort to cook this meal, but he also showed the embarrassment of the meal by introducing the three daughters of Papa Zhu in an understatement - the person who cooks it carefully and eats it with heart is perfunctory and embarrassing.
The daily lives of the three daughters make up most of the film, and Dad Zhu is like a bleak background. He is always busy with Sunday dinner, wakes up his daughters every morning, and helps them wash their clothes. It's good to keep them separately, and occasionally drink a cup of wine with an old friend.
Yang Guimei, who plays the eldest daughter, plays Zhu Jiazhen, an old maid who fantasized about her first love, her desires, her loneliness and her disappointments. If there is a most appropriate word to describe her, I think it should be sultry, although she always wears conservative white shirts, always sings hymns reverently, and always turns cold eyes on those who introduce their boyfriends to themselves. , but the woman in her heart has permed hair and red lips, waiting for a sudden love. So when the strong, stylish and brave volleyball teacher appeared, when he disappeared into the crowd on a motorcycle again and again, when she felt her heartstrings being tickled again and again, her deliberate restraint was like being The collapsed dam failed miserably.
Wu Qianlian, who plays the second daughter Zhu Jiaqian, is the most beautiful of the three daughters, and also the most shrewd and capable. She originally wanted to be a chef, but was forced by her father to study and then worked in an airline. She is Dad Zhu's favorite daughter, but she can't get along well with her father. She also has an artist's sexual partner. Like all successful new women, she controls her own love and desires in life. She was the first to see through the illusory nature of this harmonious family, the first to want to escape, but she hesitated because she accidentally saw her father go to the heart examination department of the hospital. In the end, it was she who bought the old house and fulfilled her dream of being a chef in the huge kitchen she had always dreamed of. It is not mentioned in the film whether she has ever tasted the love that is hard to remember, but it can make people feel her calmness and completeness after the vicissitudes of life.
Wang Yuwen, who plays the third daughter, is like a faint and fresh shadow in this film. She is young, beautiful, simple, and she believes in love so much. When she and her lover faced the slowly developing photo and clasped each other's hands tightly, she seemed to have turned into a woman who knew how to cherish and grieve for life, old age, sickness and death in an instant.
The film is as delicate and moving as the complicated and refined production process of Chinese cuisine that Ang Lee deliberately shows. The different life trajectories of the three daughters are intertwined, lightly but overwhelmingly hanging the audience's appetite, making people unable to eat one dish after another, and then unknowingly eat full.
The final ending is both shocking, happy and angry. Lang Xiong's slap on the table, Zhang Aijia lowered his head shyly, Gui Yalei went from being shy and shy to being shy and crying, pushing the film to its climax. It turned out that Li An had already laid a net, and he slowly tightened the net, but the audience could only marvel at the powerlessness, and finally could only sigh that it turned out to be like this. And this is a mix of surprise, joy and anger, the surprise is that the ending is so unexpected, the joy is that everyone's performances in the film are as ignorant as the audience, and the anger is that the previous sorrows and worries turned out to be all unfounded worries . It felt like being led around by the nose by an old slicker, irritated but at the same time couldn't help laughing and jovial. But he sighed and realized that this was actually a comedy, that Dad Zhu was the final climax and focus, and that the ending was so appropriate.
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