In European and American countries, there are many films with food as the theme. They use food to tell the story of the protagonist, use food to make connections, or use food as a medium to tell feminism, but most of them tend to use food to talk about love, and love is dark. . For example, "Reservation" is about the relationship and competition of a couple. It really loves you to enter the kitchen. Similarly, love also has many aspects. In the late director Nora Ephron's work "Julie and Julia" (Julie and Julia), the protagonist’s love is placed on the food host, and the food is the life. Try.
The plot in "Delicious Love Letter" is inseparable from love and loneliness. The plot seems to be quite common. It is a misunderstanding that connects two strangers together and tells their loneliness in detail. Don't dare to arbitrarily agree that this is love, after all, two people have never met, how can they talk about the rest of their lives? What's interesting is that although the script is ordinary, the film is full of strong curry aroma. The oriental color is close to us and allows us to see the style of India.
Crowded trains, estranged family members, and living alone. In fact, we all want to get off work and taste what we love to cook as soon as we get home from class. When I was young, I was taken care of by my parents and naughty. When I grow up, I want to find a partner to spend the rest of my life and feel the taste of happiness. Even if the other party cooks in a mess, they will receive it all. In your free time, you will chat and talk about when and what you ate, as well as those anniversaries, and what new meanings have been made. Sometimes they praise each other, sometimes they sarcastically. Life is like this. We use our five senses to feel each other's existence, see each other, smell each other, hear each other, and touch each other. Feelings are not absolutely lasting, so love breaks apart. Over time, they will no longer regard the other party as an important person, and over time they will not even say a word, and over time, even the smell that should be the other party does not want to have.
This is a story of the acquaintance of a man and a woman, and the lunch box is the matchmaker between them. In our opinion, the way of delivering lunch boxes in the film is a bit exaggerated. In order to let the beloved man have lunch, the courier goes to each house to collect the lunch boxes, and then transport them to the office in the city by train. This method takes a lot of time. In our opinion, why does the office have no microwave ovens for employees to reheat food? This may actually reflect the local situation, the female lead inside and the male lead outside. In order for the beloved man to fall in love with himself, he must capture his stomach, his morning and evening.
The simple story brings out a strong human touch. The man eats the lunch box clean every day and thinks of his long-lost wife. And the woman also felt the respect she hadn't tasted in a long time. This is how the story happened. She has her feelings and devotion in her lunch box. She is just a woman and child. It is her responsibility to stay at home and take care of her daughter. She doesn't have any big ideals, just hopes her partner will take a look at her. And the man's wife has passed away, and when his work is about to retire, he eats alone and goes home alone, and he just wants someone to care about him. The urban story resonated so well. It was just a small wish to eat a meal. They began to write everything, and their lives and feelings were all hoped in the words. Yes, they are very boring and stupid, thinking that the other party is docking, is it destined or made by heaven?
As a new director's work, the story is written ordinary, similar to the format of some European and American movies, and it is very old-fashioned for audiences who love literary and romantic movies. But the film reveals a fresh, clean Plato love, let us understand that invisible is also a kind of love, simple is also a kind of love, and estrus is also a kind of love. Even if it is not love, it is also an expression of friendship. In the movie, an open ending is handed over. Whether the two brothers will eventually become married is left to the audience's imagination. The main thing in this film is to satiate people, yellow curry, red curry, and the taste of Indian cuisine from the screen to the seats, which really makes the audience feel enchanted. fragrant. taste.
What is better written in the movie is the letter written by the hero and the hero to each other. The kind of black humor makes people knowingly smile, or this is not a stunning work, but in Asian movies, let We see that Indian films can also be "not Bollywood", or they can take a relaxed and literary route. It is not inferior to European and American food movies. In fact, food movies still have many expressions. In 2006, Pratibha Parmar, an Indian director in the United Kingdom, made a lesbian movie "Nina's Heavenly" that focuses on curry, love and family. Delights" (Lenna's Sweet Life). Regardless of the sexual orientation of the movie, it directly tells us to discover love in curry, and to discover stories in curry.
As for "Delicious Love Letter", it is also a work that can be viewed. There is humor in the film and the confusion about love. There are still some values worthy of our reference. For example, the attitude of dealing with others, inferiority and self-esteem, in fact all require courage and boldness to move forward, learn to accept instead of hypocrisy. Several protagonists are also free to retract, and to be solid, it is indeed an Indian work that is both refined and popular.
Text/Dorothy
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