Watching Toast always reminds me of A Dream of Red Mansions. A Dream of Red Mansions is the opposite of powder. All the prosperous and beautiful things that make the world envy are all floating clouds, the so-called moon in the water and flowers in the mirror. Jia Baoyu dreamt of wandering in the realm of illusion, and Jinghuan offered a cup of beautiful tea, called Qianhong Yidong, followed by a cup of fine wine, known as Wanyan Tong Cup. It is tea and wine, all of which are the best in the immortal world, but not available in the human world. However, its true taste is bitter. Toast is the same. Usually people's definition of food is nothing more than treasures in the world, top-quality ingredients, and then carefully cooked by first-class chefs. But Slater understands that deliciousness has nothing to do with cooking or ingredients, but the taste of love that remains in memory. A mother who is not good at cooking once made Slater suffer a lot when he was a child, and secretly maybe he hopes to have a mother who can cook to replace his mother. However, with the death of his mother, the arrival of his stepmother, the passing of years and the passing of time, he finally understands that no matter how beautiful the food is, in the hearts of children who have lost their love, they are more and more cruel and ruthless. . No matter how good the stepmother's cooking skills are, she doesn't love him. The delicious food from her hands can't compare to a piece of toast baked by her mother who really loves him in her memories. Food is made with "heart".
In "Ratatouille", Remy finally won the praise of food critic Anton Ego, Ratatouille, an unremarkable home-cooked dish in France, which is probably equivalent to our Chinese fried shredded pork with green peppers, tomato and egg soup, and egg fried rice. level. But Anton Ego ate the taste of his mother's cooking from this dish, and was brought back to a happy childhood. That's the secret to top-notch deliciousness.
Slater is not Ratatouille, his insight comes from a painful life experience, so Toast does not have the romance of Ratatouille. The stepmother's dazzling and index-fingered dishes are not expressions of love, but a declaration of her lack of love. To her stepson, she did not give her sincerity; to her husband and Slater's father, she didn't know how to love in the end. ). Such delicacy, even if it is dragon liver and phoenix marrow, has a day that makes people tired and disgusted. Sure enough, in the end Slate's father couldn't take it anymore, couldn't take it anymore, couldn't take it anymore, and died.
Childhood Slater was sympathetic. This sensitive and intelligent child has been neglected since childhood, first because of his mother's illness, and then because of his stepmother's competition. His talent, his voice, only his mother before his death could understand and listen to a point or two. Although the mother who promised to teach him to make minced meat pie broke her promise and taught him to cry, but the sick mother did her best. After his mother died, his status in the family went from bad to worse. His father fell in love with his stepmother, who was his cleaner at the time, and went out on a date late at night, leaving him alone at home when he was still young. After marrying his stepmother, he recklessly moved his family to the countryside, regardless of how far he was away from childhood friends, and grew up alone. Slater told The Observer after he became famous: "The last bit of the book is very foody. But that is how it was. Towards the end I finally get rid of these two people in my life I did not like [his father and stepmother, who had been the family's cleaning lady]—and to be honest I was really very jubilant—and thereafter all I wanted to do was cook." (translation: "The last point of the Toast is pretty much all about eating. But that's I meant it. In the end I got rid of two people I didn't like [his father and stepmother] and honestly, I'm happy - the only thing I want to do from now on is cook.") From this passage it's possible to See how depressing Slater's days in his father's house were. No one cares who he is, his talents and hobbies, his loneliness and desolation. Finally, he began to help cook at an acquaintance, and finally, he met the first love in his life, and the other party also responded to his love.
This gay sex is briefly mentioned in the movie, and there is only a quick kiss between two beautiful teenagers in the summer woods. But I believe that in the Toast book, Slater must have a strong emphasis on this or the finishing touch. Because his life has no meaning again until this moment. Maybe this relationship, in the eyes of outsiders, is not even love, but it is just the beginning of love or madness, but I think, in Slater's heart, this lover has a milestone significance. Because of this love, because his lover affirmed his desire for homosexuality, affirmed his love for cooking, and encouraged him to be himself, he finally dared to break with his family, bid farewell to his stepmother, and take the first step in an independent life. It can be said that cooking saved him, this love saved him, and since then, he has been reborn.
A Dream of Red Mansions said: The paper is full of absurd words, and a handful of bitter tears. The author of Duyun is crazy, who can understand the taste. Slater introduced the Toast book on his personal website saying, "Don't be misled by the picture of me as a schoolboy on the cover. There is nothing cute about this book at all." (Don't be misled by the picture of me as a schoolboy on the cover. The appearance of the harmless and cute elementary school students is deceived. This book has nothing to do with cuteness.")
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