Ang Lee filmed the "Father Trilogy", namely "Pushing Hands", "Wedding Banquet" and "Eating Men and Women". Three different stories, different families, but the same father. This not only means that the actors of the three fathers are the prestigious Golden Horse Award winner Lang Xiong in the Taiwan film industry, but also because the three different fathers together form a plump father figure. Of course, my favorite is Eating Men and Women, because it is the happiest, most comfortable, and most dramatic part of the trilogy. Let's look at the first two films. Although the plot setting and character depiction deliberately highlight the conflict, they seem a bit blunt, and the ending is also expected. After all, "Pushing Hand" is Ang Lee's first feature film.
"Food Men and Women" uses vivid food as the theme or clue, and both vision and taste are mobilized. The charm of Chinese feast is endless. Comparing the colorful European-style feasts in the movie "The Age of Innocence", it stands out. Not only because of the food, but how much family affection is in the dishes cooked by my father.
Everything stems from the love between father and daughter. Love means love and conflict. The movie begins in conflict and ends in love.
The lives of the three daughters also contain personal life experiences: lovers, Christians, first loves. This is the second clue to the movie. The three daughters each got out of their own predicament: the eldest daughter finally got married, and her nine-year infatuation was just a secret love; the second daughter realized that the life of her old lover was so rotten, and understood the special love and resentment of her father for her— - She looks most like her mother; the third daughter stole her friend's boyfriend, and got married and had children. The touching part of the ending is that the second daughter finally got to go to the kitchen and cook for her father by herself, and the father's sense of taste was miraculously restored.
The second daughter is most like her mother, and her father loves her more or less, so he hopes that her daughter can stop cooking. The second daughter has indeed become a professional woman, but she likes cooking the most. The contradiction between father and daughter is as simple as this Funny but real.
The loss and gain of my father's sense of taste have gone through many twists and turns. When Uncle Wen passed away, his father said, "My sense of taste is dead." Finally, when the second daughter cooked a dish that tasted the same as his deceased wife, the awakening of memory and the tolerance of love together made his sense of taste miraculously restored. What a beautiful metaphor this is! More human than the loss and recovery of the male protagonist's sexual function in Kieslowski's White.
There are a lot of surprises in this movie. We can guess at once that the third daughter will snatch someone else's boyfriend one day, and that the love letter to the eldest daughter is a prank by the students, because these are also common clichés. But I really didn't expect the eldest daughter's madness to be her own imagination, nor did I expect that the father's marriage was with Jin Rong - these plots bring both father and daughter clues to climax, which is amazing.
So we have a lot of emotions in this movie. "Father", how great, how kind, and how much need to listen and talk sometimes. How trendy the father is, and how surprising the romance of the old father and the young wife. Father as a mountain! As a daughter grows up, she may feel more and more the happiness and pain of her mother, while as a son grows up, she can more and more deeply appreciate the height, responsibility and sadness of her father. We often hear a mother tell her daughter "this is the fate of a woman" and other sighs and emotions on the screen or in novels, but we have never heard a father tell his son "this is the fate of our men". Because father and son have a natural tacit understanding, there is sympathy between men.
There is one shot that has always been impressive, and the shot is organized smoothly:
shot: the second daughter saw her father coming out of the doctor's office in the hospital, holding a paper like a medical certificate, and talking with the doctor;
shot: the daughter watched a group of nurses pushing a doctor . The old man in the emergency department passed by. The old man was lying on a stretcher, dying with tears in his eyes. The daughter looks touched;
shot: the second daughter raised her head, and the place where her father stood just now was empty,
shot: the daughter asked the doctor what department it was, and the doctor answered "cardiac department".
It took only ten seconds for the four shots to add up, and it was smooth and smooth. I can't hold back the tears. This montage expresses all the worries and love in her daughter's heart, without a single line or sensational performance. Surprisingly, the father's announcement at the end is that we know that the father is not sick, and that is his pre-marital examination. Undoubtedly, the comedy is strengthened here, which weakens the emotional tension of the time to a certain extent. But when you think about it, it's a really touching shot.
Another clue to the film is love. In fact, there is a contradiction between love and kinship between the two generations. Love often takes away part of the joy and joy of family love. The final destination of the three daughters in this film, except for the second daughter, all stayed with love. The second daughter would rather give up her career and lover, and relive the warmth of family affection with her father. Fortunately, the final big reunion is the blend of love and family. The wonderful thing is to use the quintessence of Chinese cooking skills to interpret the story, so that the audience will be like me. I am glad that my relatives around me have good cooking skills, and I also plan to learn how to cook.
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