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Xiaobian broken thoughts
Every time food appears in a movie, the editor feels bitter in my heart. Action scenes and love scenes are all gone. I wipe the saliva from the corners of my mouth and just want to ask: "Where is this sold?! I'm so hungry!"
Therefore, when I heard that Teacher Ge was going to talk about this editor's favorite food movie "Diet Men and Women" , I was overjoyed.
According to statistics, a total of 84 dishes appeared in the 2-hour movie of "Diet Men and Women" , ranging from Huaiyang cuisine, Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine, Minnan cuisine to Cantonese cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, etc... It brings state banquet-level dishes and kung fu dishes to ordinary people's dishes. dining table.
Chicken Wings
Put the chicken just out of the pot into the porcelain pot, pour in another pot of chicken stock and simmer.
Buckle
After marinating, fry in oil, pour over ice water, slice into steamer, and thicken.
And small cages
So much stuffing was packed into it?
This chef is too particular, right? ! Are you telling me this is a family dinner?
As a family dinner on the weekend, these dishes are obviously too grand . In the end, why does the father have to list these state banquet-level dishes for every meal in the film ?
Next, Mr. Ge will tell you in detail through the four family banquets in the film~
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Text/Ge Ying
"Diet Men and Women" was filmed in Taiwan after Ang Lee returned to Taiwan after filming "The Wedding Banquet" and "Pushing Hand" in the United States. The film describes the family relationship between an elderly and widowed father and his three daughters.
The film opens with a montage of a group of dads cooking .
The action of killing the fish is cut and edited separately from the hands and the face , because this skillful cooking action requires a professional chef to complete. A Din Tai Fung master acted as the "hand model" for the scene.
But Lang Xiong is a very good actor. He expresses Lao Zhu's serious cooking facial expression, which fits perfectly with his hands, making people feel that these hands are him.
This is how the chef kills the fish. I learned this trick after watching this movie.
The film is called "Diet Men and Women", and the father's role is a national chef , so at the beginning, there are various scenes of ingredients, and Chinese cuisine is particularly fully expressed in terms of color, knife skills, and cooking methods .
Next, he describes his three daughters , giving them symbolic images respectively.
The eldest daughter is a devout Christian .
The second daughter is a senior white- collar worker .
The funny thing is, Lao Zhu is a chef, but his youngest daughter is a working girl in a fast food restaurant.
Four narrative clues are interspersed : the father cooks at home, the eldest daughter listens to a sermon, the second daughter works overtime, and the third daughter frys French fries.
Every Sunday, the gathering of fathers and daughters at a table has become an important ceremony for the family , so the father spends time and energy to prepare carefully, and even the tableware is very delicate.
The nature of food color is also used as a metaphor for food
A table of rich dishes, three daughters are there, the father seems to be preoccupied.
Lao Zhu: These two days I...
Everyone should pay attention to this sentence, which Lao Zhu started from the first family dinner in the film and didn't say it until the last meal of the film. The process is full of dramatic twists and turns .
What interrupted Lao Zhu was the abnormal expression of the second daughter. What did the second daughter find?
Second daughter: The ham of simmering shark fins is " consumed"
Third Daughter: It’s okay, Eldest Daughter: Dad probably forgot to taste it
One daughter exposed the father's shortcomings, and the other two daughters helped the father cover up.
In fact, the father has no sense of taste.
Here "no taste" is a metaphor . On the one hand, it is true that Dad has no sense of taste, but the deeper metaphor refers to "sexual desire to be revived" .
Daughter's Electra
It's another dinner day, and the dishes are completely different from the last time. It is so rich that even the glutinous rice paste crab, which is a confinement dish , is served on the table.
The father smashed the mud shell that wrapped the beggar chicken with all his strength. This action was a little like a broken pot . He was always looking for an opportunity to talk about the important event, but was suddenly interrupted by the eldest daughter.
The eldest daughter suddenly said: I have something to announce to you, we can't wait, he wants ... I'm a Christian again .
"He wants" , the people who eat melon should all understand. There are some things that devout Christians can't do until they get married, so the eldest daughter can't wait.
Although there is a layer of kinship between sisters, it is actually a relationship between women and women .
While washing the dishes, the eldest daughter and the second daughter are fighting over who knows better about their father and who knows better about their late mother .
The eldest daughter: What do you know, how young were you when your mother died Second daughter: No matter how young you are, you know her better than you
The eldest sister " relying on the old and selling the old " because she is the oldest, is actually the second daughter who knows best.
From a psychological point of view, the daughter actually takes the position of the mother in this family. The second daughter has been competing with the eldest sister before, that is, the two daughters want to take the responsibility of the mother, which also includes the ownership of the father .
The reunion dinner became a Hongmen banquet
It was another family banquet. The eldest sister was clinging to her husband's back, sitting on the speeding locomotive and rushing to the appointment.
The little sister and her husband are also well-dressed.
In addition to the father and three daughters, there are also her daughter's classmate Jin Rong (played by Zhang Aijia) and her mother , Aunt Liang (played by Gui Yalei). Aunt Liang admired Lao Zhu for a long time.
The dishes in this show are very rich. Dad also carefully carved a winter melon cup , and the dishes are very particular about the arrangement.
At the banquet, Aunt Liang completely regarded herself as the hostess .
Lao Zhu was the first to serve dishes to Aunt Liang. This action was ambiguous . Aunt Liang thought that Lao Zhu was interested in her, but in fact, she did not expect Lao Zhu's real intention at all.
During the banquet, Lao Zhu drank desperately to strengthen his courage, because the main event was coming, and he finally had to say what he had held back for so long.
Lao Zhu: No matter what I do in my life, I can’t be like cooking, I only put all the ingredients together before I cook it .
During the speech, the camera stopped in such a circular composition scene, and the family members have all arrived, indicating that the family is reunited.
Aunt Liang: If you have something to say, the dishes are cold.
In fact, only Jin Rong knew what he was going to say, and kept his head down, welcoming that embarrassing moment .
Lao Zhu: I found a very good house in Guandu. It is a little old and needs to be renovated. It is a very good place, and I can move in within a month.
Relatives: Wow, moving is a good thing, new people, new house, new atmosphere. Lao Zhu: Good!
Speaking of which, Aunt Liang lowered her head , making herself very shy .
Lao Zhu: Aunt Liang!
When Lao Zhu called out, Aunt Liang knew something was wrong, and her face changed greatly .
Lao Zhu: I really didn't take good care of Jin Rong , but I can swear to God, as long as my Lao Zhu has a breath, I will never let their mother and daughter starve and freeze. We always welcome you to come and play.
Everyone was shocked .
Lao Zhu: Look, this is the health examination report I did last month at President Rong. Please aunt help us.
Aunt Liang rolled her eyes and fainted.
Lao Zhu: Untie her collar! Aunt Liang: Don't touch me, you old Zhu who killed a thousand knives... kidnap my daughter...
Aunt Liang's role was fully manifested at this time, making a reunion dinner a farce . The camera behind Lao Zhu used an over-the-shoulder lens to capture the chaotic state of Aunt Liang being carried out of the corridor by everyone.
Then Lao Zhu stood at the entrance of the corridor, looking back at his second daughter with tears in his eyes, who was also leaning against the restaurant door.
This glance indicates that this man is finally leaving, leaving this house and passing it on to others .
Family redemption and taste restoration
After the farce, the father also moved out of the old house, leaving only the second daughter in the family. It was originally agreed that the family would gather for the last meal before the house was sold, but in the end, only the father came.
Although he was going back to his home, his father also bought gifts, and he kept his old habit of taking off his shoes when he entered the house.
This is "ceremony" , and the world's way of life requires a little bit of etiquette, which fully reflects the father's emphasis on etiquette.
The second daughter finally became the owner of the old house, and the second daughter had the final say in the kitchen.
When the daughter was busy cooking in the kitchen, she completely acted like her father used to be.
Drinking the soup , this passage is very important, revealing the restoration of the sense of taste .
The father took a sip, hesitated for a while, and the second daughter immediately asked.
Second daughter: What's wrong with soup? Dad: There is too much ginger in the soup
The second daughter is just like her father, whoever said that the dishes are not well cooked must be investigated. The daughter said that she cooked this dish according to her mother 's recipe, and it tasted exactly the same as before.
After getting to the bottom of it, the second daughter suddenly discovered that the father had tasted it? As mentioned earlier, once the sense of taste is restored, everyone understands the symbolic meaning.
Whether it is diet, or men and women, there is a special relationship . This man and woman is a father-daughter relationship, but also has a deeper relationship.
Therefore, the relationship between people, especially the family relationship, has both the side of being amiable and being needed by the family, and the side of being selfish, competing, and using one's own will to control others.
These things make up the complex aspects of our relationships.
" The good thing about the film is that through diet, family dinner, and the design of the father's chef identity, it presents us with an era when traditional values have collapsed, people's adherence to and abandonment of traditional human relationships . "
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