Two women go to cooking, although in very different contexts, in France in the late 1940s and New York in the early 2000s, a housewife and a clerk, but they face the same dilemma: life is boring, no goals, meaningless. Cooking has become their common solution. Eating, the most fundamental physiological need, can also bring the highest spiritual satisfaction, it all depends on how you understand it.
However, Julia in the middle of the last century is fundamentally different from Julie in the early 2000s. Julia's job is housewife, and she can spend more than ten years studying French cuisine and experimenting with every recipe. For Julia, this is a pastime after having no worries about food and clothing, and the meaning of life other than the ordinary housewife's life. On the other hand, Julie is a full-time white-collar worker. Writing a food blog is her resistance to her own procrastination, her resistance to the snobbery of the successful people around her, and her resistance to her mediocre life. If Julia was born 50 years later, with her persistence, energy, and competitive spirit, she would definitely be a strong woman at the CEO level. And Julie, is a little woman who is consumed by life. In the end, Julia sent a message to Julie that she didn't like her blog, because the two of them didn't do it in the same mentality at all.
Interestingly, both women are well-married, and their husbands are gentle, considerate and interesting, and can understand and encourage their wives to pursue their own values in life. There is a small detail. Julia's husband is an American official abroad. Although he is not an ambassador, he must be a successful person in his career. And Julie's husband has never explained what he is doing, especially since the move from Brooklyn to Queens at the beginning, it seems that life is very down and out. It wasn't until their husband and wife quarreled that Julie's husband went to the office to live, only to find out that he was an editor in the "Journal of Archaeology". No wonder, no wonder, such a petty bourgeoisie life, how can you sustain without a little culture. Therefore, this small detail reveals the bottom of the film, describing the petty bourgeoisie ideals of the declining middle class in the new century that have not been completely wiped out by life.
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