When the four characters of the title of the film appear on the screen, the group of motorcycles crosses the road as the background, setting off the image of the people living in a fast-paced environment. Afterwards, the camera melts into a home compound that is completely opposite to the fast-paced city. Here, Lang Xiong performs a series of dazzling cooking skills: killing fish, cutting dice, washing vegetables, steaming meat, cooking chicken, and twisting buns. Skillful knife skills, superb cooking skills, quickly lead the audience into the plot. Then, after explaining the cooking experience of braised fish and steamed fish on the phone, his three daughters appeared immediately. The eldest daughter who believes in religion, the second daughter who sits in the office and the third daughter who works part-time in a fast food restaurant. Here, 48 shots (counted in detail) fully explain family members and their social roles, with a duration of 6 minutes and 10 seconds. The director shows a strong narrative and camera control. Here is a detail, who called Father Zhu? It wasn't until Jin Rong brought Shanshan to Zhu's house in the evening that Shanshan said that her mother had fried the fish today, so she secretly leaked the information to the audience, laying a foreshadowing for the future.
On Sundays, the family always gathers at the dinner table to connect with each other. Five Sunday family dinners are arranged in the film. The first time it appeared in the title, the father tried to speak several times but was interrupted by the second daughter, and finally got a call from the hotel like a life-saving straw and escaped from the embarrassing dinner table. In the hotel, Lao Zhu showed his skills and stabilized the scene. His father could win the luxury dinner in the hotel, but he could not handle the family dinner for four. During the third and fourth family dinners, the youngest daughter and the eldest daughter left home to marry their husbands, and their father saw off at the door, as lonely as Li Zhizhong under the Ozu mirror. The most important part of the scene should be the fifth family banquet, which was joined by three people from Aunt Liang's family. Before the banquet, Mother Liang taught Shanshan: "Look at you, children eat like this, they won't be able to marry when they grow up." And the face of the second daughter who is single changed slightly, maybe Jiaqian missed two men because of "mouthing". Mother Liang, who came from Shanghai, has been talking about marriage, and she even pretended to be the hostess to let everyone "start, start", and she was full of confidence in the combination with Zhu's father. This time at the family banquet, it was Father Zhu's turn to have something to say. Mother Liang and her daughter were sitting on both sides with a shy look on their faces. When Zhu's father took out the health diagnosis and hoped that his aunt would be completed, the shy face turned into trembling, which made people laugh. Father Zhu made aphrodisiac recipes, and the truth of heart examination also surfaced, which can be described as grass snake gray line.
The director used the posthumous photo of Zhu's mother in the film, implying that the second daughter, who looks exactly like her mother, is her father's favorite. So in the process, I was a little worried that the ending would go to the traditional route of father and daughter ice release. The return of this mainstream value is numerous in Hollywood films: first, the unfortunate experience or psychological shadow of the protagonist is explained, and through a series of events, the protagonist finally heals the mental illness and makes up for the psychological trauma. For example, in "Silence of the Lambs", Jodie Foster shot the skinner to get rid of the shadow of the lambs screaming that her father was killed; the estranged father and daughter in "Golden Pond" hugged tenderly at the end; Zhongliangtang and Nicole's broken mirror reunite. The same is true in "Diet Men and Women". The father and daughter break the estrangement, and Zhu's father, who is proud of family love, regains his enthusiasm for life, and feels the ups and downs in life, which extends to the recovery of the tongue and taste. Shaking hands, the ending of heart to heart finally failed to jump out of the traditional framework of Hollywood movies.
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