------------- Shallow taste of Oriental Confucian man's food and color feast
The crowded streets, with the change of the signal lights, the cars are as turbulent as the flood of unloading brakes, which seems to be suppressed At the moment when the desire burst out, all kinds of emotions flooded into my heart...
This is the beginning of the film "Diet Men and Women", and it is also the emotional tone of the whole film. The forbearance father in the film, his feelings are like a suppressed flood, always revealing a little affection behind the seriousness. He has a successful career as a chef, but his family is unfortunate. His wife died early. He has worked hard to raise three daughters. He uses "Sunday dinner" every week to maintain the relationship between father and daughter, but because of his usual seriousness and depression, he is separated from his daughter I have spent a lot of time every day to make a gorgeous table, but what I get is melancholy and nothingness: the eldest daughter is a devout believer, she always thanks God for the gift before eating, but she forgets her father's busy work in the kitchen The second daughter became famous because of her father's strict requirements, but she said the chilling words "to leave that home, everything is worth it"; the third daughter was born in a family of famous chefs with Chinese cooking skills, but in a foreign country Working part-time at fast food, and then having a good time eating at a roadside stall with my girlfriend's boyfriend, this must be said to be an irony to my father. This is undoubtedly the epitome of the relationship between parents and children in most Chinese families: the lack of tolerance and understanding. To be precise, it is the children's lack of tolerance and understanding of their parents. The father is forbearing, just like the father said at the fourth family dinner, "I don't want to hurt the family because of personal matters." Although he is in love with his daughter's friend Jin Rong , but it was delayed again and again because he took into account the feelings of his daughters, just as Jin Rong said, "feelings are a matter of two people, but he loves you very much." Because of love, fathers suppress their feelings, but on the contrary, daughters All of them don't worry about their father's feelings: the little daughter is a big kid, not only robbed her girlfriend's boyfriend, but also enlarged her stomach, and then completely ignored her father's thoughts and moved away from her father's "world". The daughter thinks she loves her father the most, and she clearly knows that "home is everything to him", and she keeps saying that she will "take care of her father for the rest of her life", but she "can't wait" to marry herself in front of God. Marrying and moving away, I just "announced" it to my father, without any respect for asking for opinions. As for the second daughter, she is undoubtedly the person who wants to move out of the house the most. All the savings, and then the job was promoted to Amsterdam, but ironically, she was the last to leave. The daughters' departure one after another, like the change of signal lights, made the father's accumulated feelings as strong as a volcano eruption. Finally, he said it." Don't say, I'm not sorry for anyone, I just said, I just don't want to compromise.", Xiao Xiao accused the selfish daughters, and also explained Jin Rong's feelings, which is the climax of the whole film.This emotion from forbearance to outburst is the biggest highlight of this film.
Eating men and women, people's great desires. This classic sentence of Confucius said from his father's mouth, which really represents the two themes of the movie "Diet Men and Women": food and sex. From the beginning of the film, for nearly four minutes, my father's kitchen was busy. , which brings the audience into a world of gourmet food full of metaphors, watching those living creatures go from life to death in the hands of their father, from unsightly bloodstained to appetizing, one can't help but think of the backside of the magnificent feast. , is endless bitterness and a broken heart of a loving father. However, is the expression of the theme of "food" really just Li An's elaboration of Chinese food culture? I don't think so, it's true that food is a people's livelihood, but here In the movie, it is a bit narrow to regard "food" as a necessity for survival. Why is my father's Sunday dinner a "must not go", because here, "food" has become a very solemn thing, It is the link that brings the whole family together. In traditional Chinese thought, the "tang" of several generations is nothing more than a dining hall, and eating is also transformed from a trivial and necessary thing into a "feast". ——The family banquet that must not be absent, this "must not be absent" contains the daughter's endless disgust, but also the father's unspeakable helplessness: love her daughter, miss her, want to party, want to communicate. But the result is the picky taste of the daughters And hurriedly announced. As the saying goes, "out of sight, out of mind." For him, this "food" is "the food is on the table, but there is no appetite", maybe for him, losing the "taste" is the best escape.
There is an idiom in China called "beautiful food can be eaten". It can be seen that the focus of eating and drinking is still on "men and women", and the erotic performance of this film is also very suitable for the characters' characteristics: the father is forbearance, so the emotional expression between him and Jin Rong in the whole film is only a telephone teaching. Cooking, helping Shanshan to cook, and listening to the nagging of her future mother-in-law to find the outlet of love, she is very reserved and true; the eldest daughter is a devout believer, conservative and rigid, but after the students joked with her in love letters I have found an outlet for a long-term emotional catharsis: ask my favorite gym teacher for a kiss; as for the concerns of "he wants, I am a believer" is also reasonable and remarkable. The second daughter is a new and new human being, and is very modern with her ex-boyfriend. She maintains the relationship of "break up is still a friend" and has feelings with colleagues, so her two erotic plots in the film are very intense, just like her character. A youthful heart collided fiercely with her boyfriend. In the dark room, the two looked at the developed photos and clasped each other's hands, revealing people's fear and sorrow for aging and death. In the end, the fetus is dark, and the emotional blending of the dark room is indeed in line with her mentality---the groping for love is still hide-and-seek in the dark. These just right erotic descriptions in the film make the film more watchable but not The meaning of apostasy is really an emotional feast with proper eroticism.
Since it is an emotional feast, the display of natural emotions is the highlight of this film. Love, friendship, and love are the three most beautiful emotions in the world. In this film It has also been rendered brilliantly.
The affection between father and daughter is the first. There is no doubt that a father loves his daughter. A father's love is swayed in the dishes that take a day's work, melted in every time he does the laundry for his daughter, and the sound of "getting up". Calling... But what did he gain? Cai was critically pointed out by his daughter that his sense of taste had deteriorated, but when he was doing laundry, he was blamed by his daughter for misunderstanding each other's clothes, and when he woke up, he was faced with a twisted back or a tit-for-tat bickering... But I think, maybe that's the fun of a father? The cooking that takes a day's work may be just a condiment for his daughter's life, but it brings everyone together; washing her daughter's underwear is so careful, as for getting up, he enjoys it even more The daughter was sleeping warmly, and as soon as the daughter woke up, he turned back to the solemn and dull father. Maybe the daughter's love for her father lies in those critical and demanding? Special mention here is the emotional change between the second daughter and the father: the father loves the second daughter the most, because she looks the most like the deceased wife, and her personality is the combination of the two. However, this kind of love can only be passed through the mouths of outsiders (Wen Uncle) pointed out, and an outsider is used as an intermediary, I think the film arranges the character of Uncle Wen to open the knot for the father and daughter, and Uncle Wen's passing has caused the two to think about life, and the disappearance of the intermediary must face each other's confusion. The daughter is her father's nemesis, or it can be said that her father is his nemesis. She stubbornly believes that her father "does not like her", so she seeks an exit everywhere, "throwing all the money" just to escape from that home, she can After his father's seemingly stern but caring words, he refuted the same sentence. He could even give his father's friend Uncle Wen a sweet kiss when he was admitted to the hospital, but ignored his father's "jealous" eyes. . . How truely this small measure reflects the forbearance of emotional catharsis in contemporary China: the situation in which parents and children love each other deeply but are too embarrassed to say it. However, in the end, the plot where the daughter cooks herself to restore the father's sense of taste makes the film complete, and the words "daughter" and "dad" have also sublimated the father and daughter's request. One of the details was cleverly and vividly set up. The second daughter went to the hospital to see Uncle Wen. She saw her father was examined by the cardiologist and was talking to a doctor. At this moment, her heart immediately became tense, and then the camera turned, A dying person lying in a hospital bed caught her attention. She felt that person's desire for life. The camera turned again, and her father was gone. When she found her, her father had already entered the elevator. What she saw, It was the separation between her father and her—the elevator door slowly closed, and perhaps what she thought of was the eternal separation of Yin and Yang.
Love is undoubtedly the catalyst for family affection. The departure of the daughters because of "love" is the fuse that prompted the father's determination to fly to the new life, and it is also a tool for the sublimation of the family relationship between father and daughter. This film shows eight kinds of love (maybe more) , they are unique and exciting.
1. The love between father and deceased mother: The two daughters have different opinions on this kind of love. The eldest daughter thinks it is an "old-fashioned way of loving each other; the second daughter thinks that "noisy and what is love" is just an "old-fashioned war" tone It is full of disdain. In fact, the love between the father and the deceased mother represents the love that most parents in China present to their children. There is no romance and passion, only trivial and insipid. Sometimes, quarrels are the sublimation of feelings. It can be seen from the details that the father loved the deceased mother: the photo of the deceased wife appeared repeatedly in the film, and when the house finally moved, the
father put the photo of the deceased wife in the box, which was his tribute to this old-fashioned love. The year-long love of two people: one of the two was tortured by marital change and nagging mother, and was alone with a child; the other was widowed at an early age, and was troubled by his career and his three daughters. This is a love that is almost legendary in the eyes of ordinary people. From the depression at the beginning, the cry of "don't say it this time, when will I say it", to the heroic "say it, just don't want to compromise" at the dinner table, my father experienced some piecemeal foreshadowing in the middle: the initial phone call, My father is teaching others how to cook fish enthusiastically, so whose call is it? Shanshan's sentence "Mom fried the fish today" reminded the audience. Now that I think about it, my father has worked hard to deliver food and meals for Shanshan. Enduring Aunt Liang's nagging and smoking is actually a "little trick" to "please" Jin Rong. At the end of the film, Jin Rong's big belly "love you" renders this hard-won love very well.
3. Aunt Liang's "natural" love: Maybe for Aunt Liang, this can't be called love, and it's a bit far-fetched to talk about it here, but Aunt Liang's blind and ridiculous love that is taken for granted does represent a lot of Chinese-style marriages. Aunt Liang's appearance is in the second daughter's ridicule about her father's destination. It can be said that she has never seen her. She first heard her type. It can be seen that her appearance is destined to be related to a father who is similar in age and is also single in the eyes of the world. In her daughter's "betrayal", she also reluctantly thought that Lao Zhu "couldn't talk to me", but she was actually submissive to the world. It can be seen that she is a new-style person on the surface, smokes, and thinks that women should not marry, but in her heart It is stereotyped and secular. As for the ending, Lao Zhu asked her to marry her daughter. Her reaction was to say that she was opposed to the year-end love, rather than being angry at her reluctance. This kind of supposed love is common in our lives, and the unexpected ending set by Ang Lee is also a counterattack against this kind of love.
4. The imaginary love of the eldest daughter: The image of the eldest daughter is very full of holes in the film, and her love is a tragicomedy that makes people laugh and cry. She lives in a lie she wove herself, using a love that never existed as a reason for her heartbreak. Like all old girls, she is stubborn, reserved, sensitive, and can't make jokes. She used to be so infatuated with her girlfriend's boyfriend, but unfortunately it has always been a secret love, watching other people get married, have children and then divorce. She has nothing to do with herself, only use Religious belief anesthetizes herself, just like her clamor when she finally broke out: "You must have opponents when you play football, why only let me have sex with the air." After the second daughter discovered her "secret" of love, she never felt sorry for the eldest sister. The compassion they had loved led them to make peace as a pair of sisters shook hands. The persistent imaginary love of the boss seems absurd and ridiculous, but in fact it has her inevitability: her mother died early, and as the eldest, she played the role of a mother without any hesitation, and restrained herself all year round like a parent, so it was natural for her to be conservative and rigid without love. Yes, imaginary love seems ridiculous, but it actually has its inevitability and poignant reasons for its existence, and it has also made the second daughter's understanding of feelings leap, which is a rare stroke of genius.
5. The eldest daughter's outburst of love: Because of the phrase "throwing the hydrangea", the eldest started the second spring, and the old love brought out the air of the sea, but when the love came, she was as excited as water, as helpless, as panic and stupid as any love woman in . The eldest brother walked on the campus with a calm face, but the physical education teacher and the love letter made her feel turbulent. Finally, she wore red and green, and shouted on the radio station. Her heart and actions changed very slowly. Just when the audience was anxious about her way out, a close-up shot suddenly appeared, and a red lipstick was quickly opened. From "clamoring" and "kissing" to getting married and leaving with tears, all these episodes develop so fast that it is hard to believe that this is what a devout Christian who doesn't ask about anything and doesn't reveal anything can do. Yes, and her final breakthrough is really exciting. Such a woman who has been obsessed with Duan's fictional unrequited love for nine years has swept away the haze of the past because of the student's joke love letter and the appearance of the PE teacher's appropriate benefits, and has a second spring. And this spring ended with a lightning wedding and tears of departure. It is gratifying and emotional: love can't be stopped when it comes.
6. The second daughter's self-confident postmodern love: The second daughter can be said to be the most thorough image of the fusion of Chinese and Western cultures. She thinks she is free and easy, looks down on "old-fashioned" love, and maintains an ambiguous relationship with her ex boyfriend. It seems that she is very modern with her boss, but in reality, the traditions and restraints in her bones are already controlling her, so behind the modernity, she can't stand her lover's relationship with her after marriage, and she thinks that her boss is her sister. The most ironic thing about her ex-boyfriend's brakes is that she, who has always been able to get out of her own way, is only worthy of enjoying the two hours after her old lover's coffee. The boss who had a good impression also said gracefully and calmly that we will be good friends In fact, this is the director's satire on the irresponsible love of the modern or self-conceited modern, and the bleak ending is also the director's warning to the world.
7. The young and impulsive love of the third daughter: the youngest second daughter was the first to marry and have children, and she was pregnant before marriage, living together illegally, and whether she was the boyfriend of a girlfriend who had taken her love with a knife or not, age alone also made People sighed with emotion: Youth is a book that is too hasty. It comes too quickly and leaves too hastily.
8. The tormenting love of the third daughter's girlfriend: The third daughter's girlfriend appeared as a cannon fodder. Her appearance was to put a question mark on the third daughter's youth, but her love point of "love him will torture him" makes I was deeply impressed. She thought that love was worth waiting, and youth was worth squandering, so she frequently played some torture tricks, thinking that it was only after hard work that she knew how to cherish it. This torture finally made her miss out on love. This is also a warning to modern youth.
Intimacy and love alone are too narrow, so the friendship between the two brothers embellishes it and also promotes the development of the plot. Their friendship is profound. From the beginning, Lao Zhu insisted that "my taste is very good" to After Uncle Wen's death, Lao Zhu said "My sense of taste is dead"... This is a classic line of sincerity, a classic line from a broken qin and a child. This kind of friendship makes people yearn and emotional.
The overall rhythm of the film is gentle, but this kind of gentleness cannot stop the turbulent undercurrent of emotion. For example, the repeated rain scenes in the play are the language of the camera lens represented by desire. It represents the surging feelings in the father's heart, and also represents the desires of men and women who eat and drink. The intersection is also one of the scenes that often occurs, but there are always barriers. The first few times are the indicator lights, and the next few times are the traffic police maintaining order. However, behind this order, there is an uncontrollable torrent of emotions, which makes the father panic. The heart expresses the psychological expectation of "who will maintain the order of my world" through the lens. Another example is that a father covered his head with a wet hand towel in the bathroom when he learned that his younger daughter was pregnant out of wedlock, which means that he is now confused and confused. The repeated massage scenes are metaphors that the father-daughter relationship is like massage, which looks torture and pain, but is actually enjoyment. Ang Lee can be said to be very handy when it comes to grasping such scenes that express the inner world of characters. Another example is when eldest sister Zhu Jiazhen received harassing love letters again and again, she was nervous, confused, and even a little angry. "Late Autumn", knowing that the love letter was not the work of the new physical education teacher, she looked around to see the shape of the other teachers in the office. At this moment, a subjective lens accurately reflected her mental state at that time, making us stand at home. Jane's character to experience this complex inner feeling. When Jiazhen summoned great courage and walked to the school's loudspeaker, she also observed the noisy cleaning scene in the school from Jiazhen's point of view. The camera shakes a little, which means Jiazhen's emotions are more impulsive; the person in front of the camera is not very clear, which shows that at this time Jiazhen has no distractions and is determined to catch the prankster, while the still crowd contrasts her heart is difficult to calm.
"Eating men and women, people have great desires, and it is difficult to not want to." The film starts from China's food culture, from the "one taste" of the five lakes and three rivers flowing into the sea to the "multiple tastes" of the emotions of men and women. The perfection of merit from "loss of taste" to "restoration of taste" reflects Confucian scholar Li An's understanding of "harmony is precious". He can always reflect the times, at least he can show the times that he expresses, such as the fever of going abroad, the fever of real estate, the liberation of sex, etc. The conflicts between the old and the new in various concepts have become the traditional eastern concept of human relations and the new western concept. The conflict of ideas, or the conflict of ideas between two generations. From this point of view, such a film, even now, because its conflict still exists and the film is also of contemporary significance.
There is no doubt that Ang Lee is one of the Chinese directors who are most interested in family and the most persistent. From "Pushing Hands", "Wedding Banquet" to "Food Men and Women", almost every film revolves around family, and uses excellence. The narrative shows the criss-crossing relationship and influence of a family. In traditional Chinese Confucian culture, family is the goal and root of a person's life. A person's birth comes from a family, his growth, study, work, marriage, Birth and death are all related to the family that surrounds him. This is perhaps the strongest characteristic of Chinese people. Li An firmly grasps the Chinese characteristics of Chinese families and describes them in detail in "Pushing Hands" and "The Wedding Banquet" The difference between Chinese and Western family views. "Pushing Hands" shows the conflict between traditional Chinese culture and American customs. Due to differences in Chinese and Western cultures, as well as differences in age, language, and living habits, the protagonist, Lao Zhu, cannot communicate with his daughter-in-law at all, nor can he integrate into his son's life. Lao Zhu has really become a superfluous person. Lao Zhu's Tai Chi skills are enough to make him proud, but in America he can't do anything, not even wash dishes. This is a contradiction that is difficult to reconcile, and it is no wonder that the son wants to hit his head against the wall. All sons and all old people will encounter this dilemma. Facing this kind of conflict, Li An can only sigh softly in the winter sun. Even at the end, the two old people seemed to be walking together again and supporting each other. It should have been a happy ending, but Li An only asked Mrs. Chen to gently answer "No". , leaving endless melancholy to the audience in front of the screen. The United States is a paradise for young people, and the elderly are graves. Rich material can guarantee the life of the elderly. However, the warmth of children is not like that of Chinese people. It can be seen that traditional Chinese culture is fully explored in the film. Look at the applicability of traditional Chinese culture to today's social life with the eyes of modern people, and use this to save people's paralysis and indifference in modern society. Ang Lee finds the connection points for his films, forming the ideological context that runs through the film throughout, so that it can be done in one go. "The Wedding Banquet" is surprisingly rich in content and layers, the emotional exchanges between the two generations, the different attitudes towards tradition, the different pursuits of life and even the attitude of the whole Chinese society towards sex, as well as the political implications contained in the collision of different identities . Wedding banquet, a very Chinese word, is framed in the frame of "America". When one kind of world meets another, the outcome is either collapse or compromise, pretending to be a tolerant compromise. At this point, fate begins to stretch out its invisible but huge hand, and we are all doomed. Sure enough, this banquet, which was used to coax away the parents, was supposed to be a pretentious banquet, but it caused endless troubles. Because King Xiang had no intention and the goddess intended, his titular wife was pregnant on their wedding night, and Simon, who had been working together to assist them in acting, was furious. The love between them is crumbling because of the real intervention of the opposite sex. Of course, the parents had to hide it, and Weiwei, because of her unexpected love, made this scene a real danger of being stabbed. Family affection and love, when these two most complicated words in the world are mixed together, it is almost a disaster. He has so many things to deal with, but no one listens to him. Sure enough, they were exhausted in reality and lies, and finally failed to save the long-shattered lies. However, the leniency of the parents' hearts solved everything. Maybe they were too tired and helpless to be tortured by doubts, but they were still worthy of admiration. If the most striking thing in "Eating and Drinking" is the omission: some turning events and major moments that happened outside the camera at a time and place we don't know, but suddenly in the next shot, become a given fact. Then the biggest feature of "The Wedding Banquet" is the trouble that keeps falling from the sky, like a cat getting tangled in a ball of wool, but don't panic, when we suspect that everything is out of control, Ang Lee can use the shaking at the last moment. The falling surprise burden retreated. Wei, because of her unexpected love, makes this scene a real danger of being ganged up. Family affection and love, when these two most complicated words in the world are mixed together, it is almost a disaster. He has so many things to deal with, but no one listens to him. Sure enough, they were exhausted in reality and lies, and finally failed to save the long-shattered lies. However, the leniency of the parents' hearts solved everything. Maybe they were too tired and helpless to be tortured by doubts, but they were still worthy of admiration. If the most striking thing in "Eating and Drinking" is the omission: some turning events and major moments that happened outside the camera at a time and place we don't know, but suddenly in the next shot, become a given fact. Then the biggest feature of "The Wedding Banquet" is the trouble that keeps falling from the sky, like a cat getting tangled in a ball of wool, but don't panic, when we suspect that everything is out of control, Ang Lee can use the shaking at the last moment. The falling surprise burden retreated. Wei, because of her unexpected love, makes this scene a real danger of being ganged up. Family affection and love, when these two most complicated words in the world are mixed together, it is almost a disaster. He has so many things to deal with, but no one listens to him. Sure enough, they were exhausted in reality and lies, and finally failed to save the long-shattered lies. However, the leniency of the parents' hearts has solved everything. Maybe they are too tired and helpless to be tortured by doubts, but they are still worthy of admiration. If the most striking thing in "Eating and Drinking" is the omission: some turning events and major moments that happened outside the camera at a time and place we don't know, but suddenly appeared in the next shot and became a given fact. Then the biggest feature of "The Wedding Banquet" is the trouble that keeps falling from the sky, like a cat getting tangled in a ball of wool, but don't panic, when we suspect that everything is out of control, Ang Lee can use shaking at the last moment. The falling surprise burden retreated.
It is also a gourmet movie that has lost and regained its sense of smell. The loss of sense of smell in the Hong Kong-produced film "Jinyu Mantang" is obviously a funny stunt. "Jinyu Mantang", also known as "Full Banquet of Man and Han", is about a small kitchen interpreting the world, love, hate and hatred, which is no different from the rivers and lakes. The chef's cooking is like a master move, and every movement is smooth and rhythmic. A master's move is bound to be blood and flesh, and the chef's move is indeed an amazing dish, isn't it better? To put it simply, this Lunar New Year film has a strong comedy style and comes from the hands of master director Tsui Hark, but there is also a bit of pride in it. Among them, the theme song impressed me deeply: "Walking on the long road of life, every bit is happy, bravely paying for love, never caring about failure, even if I am lonely all my life, looking back at the way I came, I am satisfied, even if I have ups and downs, As long as this life is not in vain, walk on the long road of life." A diet film, the momentum of the theme song is no less than that of Huang Feihong, giving people a refreshing feeling. Compared with several other movies about cooking, such as "Fuck Star" played by Liming, and "God of Cookery" played by Stephen Chow, I like this one by Tsui Hark the most. Apart from the funny, those dazzling knife skills, those mouth-watering food feasts, those two traditional or modern loves are also the food feasts in my memory.
There are two types of movies I like: trivial things contain profound philosophy and feelings; behind the frenzy and glitz is a sad and painful destiny. Ang Lee's movies are like a cup of light tea, the more you taste, the more flavorful it becomes. So I chose to hold a cup of fragrant tea in the dusk of the setting sun, and read all the living beings.
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