"Delicious Love": Still cliché but still warm

Geraldine 2022-01-02 08:01:46

The cliché but warm and romantic "Food Love" is the kind of love movie that is suitable for watching on the sofa with your loved one on a lazy weekend night. So, if you are a kind of theoretical school and always insist that love is very vulgar, then please turn off the TV as soon as possible and go to bed. ——Aspiring Young Women This

film is adapted from the German film "Delicious Relationship". The new version transfers the romantic love story that happened in Europe to the fashion capital of New York. The old version of "Delicious Relations" received rave reviews, and this flop is intended to bring once classics to the big screen again. For Hollywood, which has always liked flop classics, it's just a change of soup, not medicine, between the old version and the new version. What has changed is the actor and the place, but the story remains unchanged. Of course, the most eye-catching thing in the new version is the comeback of Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is already a mother. Since this British sexy beauty became a mother, she has hardly played any decent roles. This time, she has re-entered the big screen with the posture of a sexy business woman. It can be said that it is something that is worth exciting for fans who like her.

It was re-adapted and released after a lapse of six years, thanks to the film's interesting and diversified story foundation. First of all, "Delicious Love" itself is a typical romantic love story, and under this unsuspecting love story, we see the relationship between a single woman and her niece from alienation to closeness, and the heroine’s passion for work. Of course, if there are only these elements, then the story will obviously appear clichéd, so there is a fascinating professional kitchen as the exquisite packaging of the whole story. It is undeniable that even with the packaging of the kitchen and gourmet food, this story is still somewhat clichéd. The story took place in Europe six years ago. Even though there are suspicions of clichés, European movies, especially European romantic films, have given the audience a fixed understanding, that is, a literary and artistic temperament. Naturally, there are not many people who complain about clichés. . And six years later, Hollywood's flop was unanimously regarded as a cliché by the public. I don’t know if there have been more romantic comedies of this type in the past six years, or is it to blame for the fact that most of the movies produced from the assembly line every year in Hollywood have been labeled as cliche.

Love is an eternal theme. Whether it is a literary work or a film and television work, it will never be able to break free from its sweet figure. Therefore, I can't help saying such a sentence. It's just that the elaboration and expression of love now has more new tricks along with the evolution of human brain psychology. Naturally, the public is talking about love movie clichés and so on, but they can't avoid being moved by the men and women who are in love in these love stories. Of course, this remark is only for those who have loved those who can feel love, and for those who are numb or feel that love itself is a very boring thing, it is not the responsibility of the movie that they cannot be moved.

Therefore, although the film is still clichéd or broken, it is vulgar, but it can't obliterate my love for it, especially for a paranoid woman like Kate and the whole story. Indeed, such a story without suspense, such a group of very symbolic characters, and the not so unpredictable delicacy have become the reason why some people scold the film for mediocrity. But it is precisely because of the simplicity of this story that I can be moved by it. The overall tone of the whole piece is warm like chocolate, and it is so warm and romantic. The most important thing is that in this simple story, we learned about losing and gaining truth from the life of a woman for a few days, and about how things in life that we can’t predict will change us. After coming out of those difficulties, life will give us hope again. This kind of story is far more sincere than some of the less clichéd movies that pretend to be noble and deliberately offbeat.

Kate’s niece’s mother died in a traffic accident at the beginning of the film, so a lot of the girl’s grief is shown in the film, so that the film is no longer a purely romantic comedy, and there are even many details that make people very Sorrow. It is precisely because of these ubiquitous sadness that the film can rise to a higher level from an ordinary romantic comedy. Although some people accuse such a setting of making the film’s style nondescript, it is understandable that it is precisely because of such an accident and A sad girl who lost her mother, as well as two men and women who are unlikely to be together, make the theme of the film more than just love.

This year can be said to be a year of film food in Hollywood. Previously, it was the beautiful and gentle "Hostess", then the rave reviews of "Ratuitou", and then the most recent "Delicious Love". It is not difficult to see the importance of these four words to mankind. The professional kitchen in this film is almost the same as that in "Ratuitouille", and the story mode is basically the same, except that between the mouse chef and the beautiful chef, people’s curiosity is more inclined to mice, so in popularity Above, the sexy sister Ze is still no match for the 3D mouse. In terms of expressing the relationship between the food and the characters and the whole story, the film is not perfect. Compared to some other classic movies with food as the main element, it looks a little monotonous. The budding of Kate and Nick's love is not so much the two's love of making food, as it is because of Kate's niece "with ulterior motives". Food in this film, to put it bluntly, is just to make the film more visually viewable. Although food creates romantic warmth and sexual desire in some scenes, it is a movie with food as the background. That said, it's still not enough.

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  • Zoe: [while waiting for Nick to arrive] He's late... Men!

  • Kate: Oh, I see you've brought something to read to Zoe.

    Charlotte: It's for my thesis... rapidly mutating deadly viruses.