"You have to learn to find the hidden sugar in your life."
We often hear people say this, and they will also tell us that if you are kind to others, cherish your feelings, work hard, struggle, struggle, and have a high emotional intelligence, you can find the sugar hidden in life. In reality, we often not only have difficulty finding those candies, but also lose them all the time.
What should we do when we lose the sugar in our lives.
In this movie, you may find the answer.
An overview of the plot
The story takes place in the United States, Portland.
Many years ago, in the splendid and bustling streets, Cage was the chef of a famous restaurant, and his wife Laurie, who loved him deeply, was a winner in life with a double harvest of family and business. Cage revels in the fame and fame that celebrity chefs have brought him, ignoring his wife. It is true that Cage's focus on food has brought appetite and emotional satisfaction to many people.
Among them were Emil's parents. At that time, Emil was a child, but he lived in depression and pain, and his ears were constantly quarreling with his parents. He grew up in a kind of panic, and he dreamed that his parents would stop arguing. However, when his parents returned from a meal out one day, Emil saw them hug and kiss each other. From the jokes of the parents, Emil learned that the reason for the reconciliation of the parents was that they had dinner at a restaurant and had a very happy meal. Emile remembered that night, and the restaurant even more.
When you ignore the sugar that life gives you, that sugar flies away quickly.
When Cage's wife died unexpectedly, he looked back and realized that the reputation and prestige brought by famous chefs are not worth mentioning. His wife is the sugar in his life. But, he lost it. He gave up everything, went to the outskirts of the forest, and lived with a truffle pig.
Emile's mother committed suicide and became a vegetative state. Her father was unacceptable and maintained her vegetative state with expensive medical bills, pretending that her sugar was still there. Emil became more introverted and far away from his father.
Years later, Cage and the little pig who lived for many years became a pair of truffle pickers. Emile's father controls most of the local restaurant's food supply, especially the truffle supply. Emile wanted to become a restaurant supply giant like his father, and despite his father's objections, he started an independent truffle dealer.
By chance, Cage and Emile met. Cage saw that Emile was young and innocent and would not cause him trouble; Emile saw Cage's low price sale. The two became stable supply and marketing partners. Emile's behavior naturally attracted the attention of his father. Under his father's questioning, Emile revealed his supply and sales relationship with Cage.
Late one night, Emile's father sent someone to snatch Cage's piglet. Cage pulled Emile to find the whereabouts of the piglet, and found Edgar, Fenway, and Emile's father in turn.
Edgar, who has always run an underground boxing ring, is filled with male staff at the local restaurant to vent their anger and to gamble to win money. Edgar said that Cage disappeared for so long that everyone forgot about him. However, when Cage stood on the ring, a little man with angry eyes rushed up and beat Cage wildly. Cage let the little man beat him, and he proved that he was still remembered. Edgar was wrong and gave Cage the information. (Probably, many years ago, the little man worked under Cage and was humiliated by Cage, who was in the limelight)
Fenway, who worked under Cage, was reprimanded; now a restaurant chef, he focuses on deconstructing ingredients and reinventing their cooking techniques. Cage looked at Fenway as he saw himself back then. After some talk, Cage told him secretly that these cooking techniques were fleeting. Fenway understood the meaning of Cage's words, was moved by him, and told where the pig was going.
Emile's father, an oligarch who supplies the local truffle market, robs the piglets. In order to let Emile's father tell the whereabouts of the little pig, Cage recreated the dinner that Emile's parents had in those days, without showing off skills, simple bird meat, and distinctive aperitif. Emile's father ate this dinner, the memory of his taste buds was opened, and the food connected decades of emotions and memories, and he was full of tears. Emile's father told the pig's whereabouts. When his men took the pig, he behaved rudely and inadvertently injured the pig, causing him to die.
The little pig left, just like when his wife left, Cage was crying.
At the end of the story, Cage returned to the forest cabin, turned on the tape recorder, and listened to the recording of his late wife. He took off his shoes and clothes and lay on the bed.
2. Imagery, meaning
1. Cage is a workaholic. He thinks that the honor brought by a chef is the sugar in his life. In fact, his wife is the sugar in his life. But, he lost it. He dared not face himself, he dared not face his deceased wife, he came to the forest and lived with the truffle pig.
Cage pinned his remaining life motivation on the truffle pig to escape the loneliness caused by the death of his wife. He used the truffle pig to create a life and emotional environment suitable for his survival, so that he could get a trace of "existence in this world". feel".
For Cage, the loss of the truffle pig means that he is about to lose his only emotional sustenance, and he has to face the loneliness of life brought about by the death of his wife. So he is desperate to get the truffle pig back.
When he learned that the truffle pig was dead, Cage cried, and he finally had to face the loneliness of his wife's death, and finally he had to face himself.
When losing the sugar in life, Cage has been evading in a self-destructive way. At the end of the story, he seemed to slowly open his heart and face all this.
2. Emil's father is also a workaholic, he thinks wealth is the sugar in his life, in fact, his wife is. However, he and his wife spend less time together, causing his wife to commit suicide and become a vegetative person.
When he lost the sugar in his life, Emil's father was also running away. He used expensive medical bills to maintain his wife's vegetative state.
3. The theme of the film
By telling the story of Cage and Emile's search for truffle pigs, it reveals the past and present of the two families of Cage and Emile. Cage, who was addicted to the past and unwilling to face the reality, finally got his soul healed and began to face the reality.
What brought Cage out of the haze?
I think there are two points.
One is time. Time is undoubtedly the medicine that soothes everything.
The second is the "sense of existence" of people. Marx once said that man is a social man, made up of relationships. From an individual point of view, everyone needs a sense of existence, and needs to bring laughter, joy, pain and sadness to the "people who care about" to establish a "sense of existence".
However, when the "people we care about" pass away, we can't get a real sense of "existence". People either turn into ruthless working machines like Emile's father, or become decadent out of society, like Cage.
In the story, Cage and Emile have a heart-to-heart relationship, Cage and Emile cook together, and use a meal to make Emile's father cry. Through a series of things, Cage re-establishes his "sense of existence", that is, as a chef. , use food to bring beautiful life and emotional experience to others. At the end of the story, Cage was able to cheer up and face reality.
4. What should we do when we lose the sugar in our life
Life is inevitable in life and death, and it is inevitable to lose the sugar in life, so what should we do?
Give yourself some time to relax. Find a new "presence".
Finally, may you cherish the sugar in your life.
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