This movie has the feeling of Chinese painting and line drawing, and the dragon sees the beginning but not the end.
There is a very important line that reveals the meaning of the whole movie, this line is in the tape of Cage, his dead wife Laurie said: Today is your birthday, so we will go to a very special house Restaurant, you're going to have to judge all night again, so I decided to get drunk...before I get drunk, sing a song to wish you a happy birthday. This is a very important line.
Then another very important line is that Cage and Emile are outside his dad's house. Emile thinks that pigs are very important. Cage said, you think the truffles found by the pigs are actually the truffles I found, just look at the trees , you know where the truffles are.
Then there is the story of the Emile family. Compared with the story of the Cage family, Emile's father is a workaholic, and his mother loves Emile very much. Feeling guilt, always reluctant to extubate and keep in a vegetative state, just reminding himself of the wrong things he did, and he didn't want Emil to have the same profession as himself, but to do easy office work.
The story of Cage compared to that is that Cage used to be a famous chef and was so narcissistic about his reputation that he ignored the chance to get along well with his wife. When his wife died, he discovered that he was What a famous chef has is not as good as his wife's smile, it's too late to regret it, so he punishes himself by self-exile. That pig, why is it so important? The pig does not represent the wife, the pig represents Cage himself. The pig will only search for truffles under the soil according to the smell, in exchange for the owner's feeding, but they know nothing about the value of truffles and the value of life. Was it Cage back then? With such a wonderful person by his side without knowing it, he wants to chase honors and titles. Pig is Cage's projection of himself, the good memories in pig and Cage's mind, and jointly build the good old days of Cage and his wife. The rough man who chews peony and the wonderful woman will always be accompanied by his wife. Cage went to happiness, not Cage's self-righteous thought that he had created a happy life.
When the pig dies, this projection disappears, and Cage is left with only an ugly, old and empty self, and there is no longer a relationship between the two of them.
I have to say that Cage's acting skills are still there. During the French toast time, Cage said a monologue that made Emile foggy. For 10,000 years, this place has had an earthquake every two hundred years. All human civilizations Creation is destroyed again and again. Therefore, people should do things that are meaningful to themselves, not things that are meaningless. In the end, Cage returned to the little house without the pigs, and fell asleep in relief, indicating that he also accepted the reality. Like the city of Portland, pigs will always pass away. Reality is reality, and then he mustered the courage to listen to his wife. recordings left.
This movie is very similar to Hong Kong's previous God of Chef movies. It is about how superb a chef is. Hong Kong's is from the front, and Cage is from the side, and even the sideline tells how much Robin, the chef played by Cage, was in those days. scenery. He was beautiful back then, but his heart was so depressed. Edgar's old man was probably also a famous celebrity in the chef industry back then. The chefs in those days were under a lot of pressure. The way to release the pressure was to join the underground fight club organized by Edgar. Beating, betting who persists for the longest time, fifteen years have passed, and the practitioners who Chef Robin reprimanded in those days still hate him so much that they are reluctant to stop beating him for a full minute, which shows how much he was in the industry back then. His arrogance and invincibility also shows how superb his cooking skills are and how talented he is himself.
Originally thought that Cage fell in love with Emile's mother because of that meal, which caused the tragedy of the two families, but it was not, it was just Emile's father who wanted to prevent Emile from getting the best quality truffles, thus interrupting His thoughts on the industry.
Food movies are actually not easy to make. It is difficult to make a grand narrative effect. It is just a meal. Can you make it into the Lord of the Rings? can not. It's rare for this film to elicit the role of food and chefs in humans from a hard-to-guess perspective.
Happiness is very precious, often only for a moment. Emile's parents have been noisy for a lifetime. Only one night was because they ate the food made by Cage, and they talked and laughed. After the happiness, the tragedy continued. Why didn't Emile's father remember the night, why wait until his wife committed suicide, even if the cook was there, the one who shared the dinner and joked was not there.
From my current understanding, people actually just don't want to see reality. Pigs can see reality, sad Cage can occasionally see reality, but Emile, Chef Fenway, who is addicted to truffle dreams, and eaters who think truffles are the supreme delicacy, can't see reality.
I watched it twice again, and suddenly had some thoughts tonight. The film is as memorable as a pickled olive.
Cage said that Portland has an earthquake and tsunami once every 200 years, erased and reborn, as if it never existed. This sentence is actually not finished. It's a bit like Wang Xizhi's running script.
Where is it connected?
Cage's first stop in search of information was Edgar's office. Edgar said that you may have been a person before, but you disappeared for so long that you don't exist anymore. Is this true? Cage just wrote his name on the cardboard, and a group of people began to bet heavily to beat him, indicating that as an object of envy, jealousy and hatred in the industry, he has long existed in the memory of some people, and Cage did not. He was beaten for the next minute, so he didn't make money for Edgar, the bookmaker, so why did he stagger to his feet and walk to Edgar, because he showed that he was not non-existent. Degas was wrong, he was right. Edgar gave him the information not because he made money, but because he proved Edgar wrong, he gave him the information on who was right and who was wrong in this gamble.
Cage's second stop to find information is Fenway's trendy restaurant. Fenway's deconstructed oyster specials are very showy. Cage's evaluation of him is that it's useless for you to make such showy things. They (Diner) Don't remember you, the subtext is like the Portland earthquake once every 200 years, there's no point in showing off. This points out what state Cage was in that year. At his peak, Cage pursued the most excellent cooking skills, and his mind was full of technical skills.
The third stop on Cage's search for information, the final stop, is the home of Emil's father. The way he solved the problem was to recreate the meal and dinner of Emile’s parents back then. There was no dazzling skills, simple bird meat, and a characteristic aperitif. Emile’s father took a sip of the wine and remembered the most harmonious and beautiful time of the year. Emil's self-talk outside the door of his mother's ward was not idle, indicating that Emil believed that even if his mother became an unconscious vegetative person, she would not forget that dinner and the chef who cooked it.
This is the opposite of Edgar's passage, where Cage is remembered for creating love.
Cage's being remembered, and the younger Cage that Fenway refers to, is another contrast, pointing out the role of cooking, which, like politics, economics, culture, and science, is above all usefulness and can solve human beings. The problems in life, the cooking that can solve the problem is not how superb the skill is, but to solve the big and small problems that appear at the right time, not to show off.
The song at the end was sung by the heroine who never appeared, and the lyrics were to the effect, only you can quell my desires, and I'm horny, Cage's wife Lori, married him first because of love, no Because of his superb skills, his career was successful. The primary function of the Cage in marriage is to be able to provide love and a relationship of intimacy and harmony. Portland earthquake and tsunami every 200 years, as if nothing exists, is this true? No. Whether Lori is dead or alive, it will always be in Cage's mind.
Human beings first learned knowledge to solve problems in life. The popularization of a practical skill, such as drilling wood to make fire, can make very, very many people eat delicious and safe food, which is an amazing thing. Today, tens of thousands of years after the birth of human beings, what we pursue is often no longer to solve problems. What we pursue is often "great" and cannot be a great person. This is the crux of the emptiness of most people today. Another paradox is that the more dazzlingly successful companies and groups are in business, the more empty the screws in these companies and groups will feel. Compared with Ren Zhengfei’s national hero title, the generous salaries of Huawei employees seem like a It's a poor consolation prize, the more they strive for personal "greatness", the more they contribute to the greatness of those who are in control. When they see that they can't make themselves "great" after all their lives, they begin to collapse inward.
The practicality of pigs is to find truffles, and the bond between Cage and pigs is not because pigs are truffle hunters. If Cage lives alone, it can only be that his wife will live in his heart forever. What he wants is that he can also live in the heart of his dead wife forever, even if he knows that his wife is dead, he can no longer let a person live in the heart. mind. The pig lives with him, and because the pig can't speak, he can think that when he has a spiritual bond with the pig, does the pig also have a psychological bond with him? If you don't listen to the recording of the dead wife, the wife doesn't seem to be dead, so when Cage misses his wife, the wife who exists in a certain way can also miss him. Emile's father insisted on not extubating, which is exactly such an obsession. The daily busy work seems to make emotions ordinary. Cage's meal instantly strengthens this emotion and can no longer be controlled. Cage can search for truffles, and pigs can also search for truffles. Truffles can be sold for money to maintain the minimum life of two creatures. Searching for truffles is the link between him and the pigs to maintain a daily relationship. This is the power of empathy that only human beings have. For example, Cage was only doing his daily job and cooking the bird meat. Then Emile’s parents enjoyed this meal. Don't think, did the chef know that we were not in harmony and cooked this meal on purpose to bring us into harmony? Years later, Emil is also looking for this chef. It seems that if you find this chef, you can turn back time. He also goes back in time. After that wonderful night, he asked this chef to cook more meals for his parents, father. Attitudes toward career and family can be changed, and mothers won't commit suicide, a world that is very different from the present. It's actually a mental disorder
The fact is that Cage didn't deliberately make dinner for Emile's parents back then, but after listening to Emile's story, he had already retrieved the incident from his memory, which was why he insisted on asking Emile's father's address. , he must confirm on the spot whether this person is the customer of the year. This is also the reason why he began to prepare materials after being rejected by Emile's father for the first time and insisted that he could change the situation. The Mill family cherishes that memory very much, and he himself has the ability to remember every customer served and how the dishes were made at that time. By making the same dish again, he constructed the most touching time in Emile's father's mind.
This is the quality of success for novelists and artists.
Cage has always been brooding that human civilization will always be erased, and that he will not be remembered. After this pig storm, he walked quietly. I think he wanted to understand that if he lost his lover, he would never come back, but he could use cooking as a medium to build an illusory beautiful world, so that To be remembered, Edgar's fight club gamblers are passively remembered, he can now actively create a memory, so he said to Emil on Thursday, washed his face and went to bed calmly, which means he will use his work Happiness to those who are still alive. He finally lost the pig unmistakably, and finally unmistakably found the meaning of his life.
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