Yesterday, I was attracted by CCTV6's "Gourmet", a 76-year-old film. The reason was very simple at first, because of the word "food". Sure enough, the content of the film is as attractive as its name, full of black laughter, and it is a classic film worth watching.
In addition, it also made me know for the first time the famous European comedy master of the last century---Louis de Finès. This film is enough to reflect his funny, cunning, clever, funny, and likable side. The representative works include "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth", "The Scrooge", "Little Swimmer", etc., waiting for me to watch it step by step!
Introduction to the film "Gourmet": Every year, a red and blue cover of "Dussmann Dining Yearbook" appears in the window of major bookstores around the world and sold to those tourists. This book is like a bible in the catering industry. With this book, tourists don't know how to use their foreign currencies such as dollars, pounds, marks, yen, etc. in France. This book objectively and vividly evaluates the delicacies of the major restaurants in France. This yearbook is like a judgment, which will affect the reputation and wealth of some restaurants. Which restaurant has an extra star or a lack of a star will cause repercussions, so Major restaurants are wary of inspectors for this yearbook. The protagonist of the film Duesman (Louis de Fines) is the editor-in-chief of the yearbook and participated in the restaurant tasting inspection, so some ridiculous things happened in this inspection, such as he played various Image customers go to the restaurant (to avoid being recognized by others).
Due to Dussman's advanced age, he wanted to let his son, who has a good heritage in food appreciation, inherit his father's business, so he often took his son to various restaurants to cultivate his ability, but his son was only interested in circuses. , often using the time to pretend to answer the phone when tasting food to go to the circus performance, after repeated success, was finally exposed by his father.
At the end of the film, Dusman enters a large convenient and fast food processing factory, which is full of artificial fish, artificial meat, artificial roast chicken, hairless chicken, red wine with pigments and chemicals, etc. The TV show exposes it, and it's so heartwarming!
This film is a comedy rather than a film based on dark humor. The film profoundly reveals some of the problems existing in today's society, such as the arrogance and rudeness of some waiters who Dussman encountered during an unannounced visit to a restaurant. Unsanitary environment, unclean materials and some disgusting artificial food produced by the factory at the end, etc.
After watching it, I will revisit it, this movie is really worth thinking about.
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