After watching "The Republic of Spice", the film covers a lot of topics and is really overwhelmed: war, love, family affection, religion... The narrative mode of the film is also complicated, with reverse order and interlude throughout the whole film. The love-hate relationship between Greece and Turkey is innumerable, because history and religion have created a complex relationship between the two countries. This film is in the context of war, it does not describe the fierce and extraordinary war scenes, it describes what happened in the context of tension between the two countries, mainly the impact of the large population exchange on the lives of ordinary people. The Great Population Exchange is more of an abbreviation for the people being exchanged. Greeks are not welcome when they return to Greece, and Turkish people are not welcome when they return to Turkey. They are obviously people of one nation and one religion, but they are hostile to each other just because they have lived in different countries. A political policy, how many families are torn apart, just like the family described in the movie, it is only a microcosm. The protagonist has never returned to Turkey, and his grandfather has never been to Greece. In the end, he can only part with life and death. Their complicated feelings for the two countries are beyond my understanding. Reflecting national relations with spices: Grandpa discovered the diplomatic tension between the two countries through the needs of guests in the process of selling spices to diplomats. Education from the perspective of spices: Dad and mom, after discovering their son's extraordinary culinary talent, especially spices, tried their best to prevent this from happening. When they found their son crawling into the kitchen in the middle of the night to cook the dishes they were all amazed at, their first reaction as parents was not praise, but "remodeling". But only the captain encouraged him to go to France to learn how to cook, which probably reflects the proportional relationship between vision and seeing the world. Spices run through the male lead's entire world. From the spice, he saw deliciousness, and from the spice he knew the world, the universe, and even embarked on the path of an astronomer. Grandpa led him to know spices and learn how to use them, and he himself listened to everyone discussing spices in his life. When they separated the two countries from their "little girlfriend", they used spices to connect, and they eventually met for a birthday banquet with spices. Breast milk and sugar appear at the beginning of the movie, and after the movie there is a scene of blowing spice to see the universe. Spice is not only a must-have for Turkish cuisine, but also the concentration of the male protagonist from childhood to adulthood. The movie is sad but not sad. From the separation from the grandfather to the separation of life and death at the last meeting, from the happy life with the little girl to the departure after many years. The story is sad, but not painful. The stubbornness of the grandfather and the boy, the stubbornness of not looking at each other, not stepping into the land of the country, the gesture of grasping the spice before the death of the grandfather dilutes the feeling of knowing that the grandfather is about to die. After grandfather's death, the two met again after many years at the funeral. With a slight smile, they knew each other's little warmth and played down the sadness of grandfather's death. It is not easy for the two to meet, but they will be separated forever. The sad ending is connected with the blandness of the male director at the beginning, and it has become less sad. I don't know much about religion, but my father's 5-second hesitation about reforming made him hate his whole life moved me.
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