The story is divided into four distinct lines, interspersed back and forth, converging. Each line is cut to another before the story is told, either with a group shot or with a blank shot. The story is tight and detailed.
From the experience of director Ang Lee, who studied in the United States and studied dramas opposed by his father, who was a middle school principal, we can understand the personal ideas and emotions he added to the film.
The father played by Lang Xiong was temporarily invited back to fight the fire in a restaurant accident, and he asked his three daughters to come back every Sunday afternoon to have dinner with the family, which all reflected the status and dominance of patriarchy in Chinese society.
The eldest daughter, Jiazhen, relied on the foreign Christian faith to close her heart. After the death of her mother, she treated her two younger sisters like an elder. After some jokes by the students, she liberated her heart and put her feelings towards physical education teacher Zhou Mingdao. love is completely open. Just making up Li Kai as her boyfriend is absurd and incomprehensible. The second daughter, Jiaqian, looked modern from the beginning, and hurriedly wanted to get rid of the constraints of her father and family, and moved out on her own. The traditional concept of filial piety is to always accompany and take care of parents. The youngest daughter, Jia Ning, fell in love with her boyfriend who likes foreign literature and photography. Even drinking water is a Western habit. She likes to drink iced water, and she became pregnant before marriage. And what Li Kai said about his son, these can be said to be the impact of globalization on local culture.
Master Zhu said: "Chinese cuisine has been in Taiwan for more than 40 years, and it has long been three rivers and five lakes flowing into the sea." It is a confirmation.
"Diet men and women", very succinctly shows the two people's natural feelings of appetite and sexual desire. People's great desire, food and sex. The movie is very gorgeous in terms of food display. When Zhu's father cooks in the big kitchen at home, he does not fit his age's large hand close-up (use a stand-in), a grand scene of several banquets, and a moving shot in the restaurant kitchen. , can see the extreme expression of appetite. And the description of sexual desire is very conservative and obscure, except for the gorgeous dress after the eldest sister received the love letter, the rest are mostly on the second sister's family. From the first few seconds with Lei Meng, the passionate kiss with Li Kai's office, and then Lei Meng told her that he was about to get married and hinted that he could continue to have a relationship with Jia Qian. Jia Qian vomited when she came out; Jia Qian invited Li Kai to come In the light tea house interview, the two expressed with a high degree of understanding that they could be good friends, all of which showed Jia Qian's growth in the story.
Another point is that Jiaqian brought food to Raymond's house to cook and he recalled the happy times when he was young, and he didn't care about Raymond's jokes. Father Zhu didn't want her to be a chef, and she always felt that something was missing in her life. At the end of the film, Lao Zhu sold the house, and Jia Qian bought it himself; when the father changed his new house, he understood that he couldn't "die for money and die for food", he should live a life that suits his heart, and his daughter lives in her "new" home. Through cooking, I found a long-lost happiness. Lao Zhu regained his sense of taste in the traditional dishes inherited by his daughter. This metaphor means that the father and daughter have regained communication and the relationship has been reconciled.
In a chat with Lao Zhu, Aunt Liang said that she came to Taiwan with her husband from his hometown in Shanghai, which is consistent with Ang Lee's historical concept of studying in the United States and Taiwanese wandering.
I kept thinking of Li Zongsheng's "One Man" while watching the movie. One person is looking for the answer in modernity and tradition, and what kind of answer will make everyone feel good.
Reference: Ke Weini "Globalization and Cultural Identity in "Food and Man"
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