This article is going to analyze "Eating Men and Women".
Disclaimer in advance, this article focuses on the analysis of the emotional scenes in the film, some of which are not suitable for children, and readers under the age of 18, especially children, are not allowed to read.
"Eating Men and Women" is Ang Lee's early masterpiece, which is deeply loved by the majority of film fans. On Douban, 500,000 people gave it a high score of 9.1.
The popular short comments have some people shaking their wits and summarizing the content of this film.
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The words are not rough, the sex affair between Lao Zhu and his three daughters, Ang Lee uses details to shoot clearly.
Let's start with Old Zhu.
Lao Zhu and Jinrong have an emotional line, which is arranged at the beginning of the film.
While he was cooking, he received a phone call.
We only heard its voice and did not see its people, but we can infer that it was called by Jinrong.
For this, we can find two pieces of evidence in the film.
Evidence one, Lao Zhu told the other party that the fish was braised and should be steamed.
This shows that the caller is going to burn fish today and is not good at cooking.
That same night, Jinrong took Shanshan to the old Zhu family as a guest. Shanshan complained to Jinrong, "Mom fried the fish today."
This shows that Jinrong makes fish and is not good at cooking.
If this is a coincidence, let's look at the second piece of evidence. Jinrong went to the Zhu family and asked "What about Zhu Dad", which can prove that the relationship between the two people is extraordinary.
These two small details prove that Jinrong is the person who called Lao Zhu.
Before he and Jinrong were officially together, Lao Zhu was ready to make a baby.
At 37 minutes of the film, Lao Zhu copied the formula for supplementing the kidney late at night.
Zhu Jiaqian saw Old Zhu in the hospital and mistakenly thought that his father was seriously ill. In fact, Lao Zhu went to the hospital to do a health examination report.
Later, Lao Zhu announced her relationship with Jinrong at the family banquet, and took out a health examination report.
Good health, there is a good recipe for tonifying the kidneys, and finally let Lao Zhu and Jinrong successfully make a baby.
After talking about Old Zhu, let's talk about Zhu Jiazhen.
Zhu Jiazhen, a chemistry teacher at a vocational college, the eldest sister of Zhu Jiaqian and Zhu Jianing, is an unmarried woman over thirty years old.
Being unmarried at an older age also makes her more awkward, and her classmate's sister is about to become her little stepmother, and she has not yet found the other half of her life.
When Aunt Liang first visited the Zhu family, she asked Zhu Jiazhen, "I am not married yet."
Finding that Zhu Jiazhen was unhappy, Aunt Liang enlightened her, "Marriage is not interesting, the marriage is not good, and in the end it is still divorced."
Rather than comforting Zhu Jiazhen, it is better to say that she is trying to complain about Jinrong, who is in a divorce lawsuit.
In Aunt Liang's heart, unmarried at an older age is the original sin.
Therefore, she complained to Zhu Jiazhen in front of Zhu Jianing, "Don't drag it so late like your eldest sister."
Being unmarried at an older age also makes Zhu Jiazhen extremely depressed.
One night, Zhu Jiazhen was driving away the cat called Chun, and Jia Qian saw and ridiculed Jia Zhen, "At least people are living very happily."
In the face of her sister's ridicule of holding a gun and a stick, Zhu Jiazhen was speechless.
This scene can be composed of a poem:
"Spring calls the cat cat called Spring, listening to him the more he barks the more spirited, Jia Zhen also has cat intentions, do not dare to bark in front of people."
Let's talk about Zhu Jiaqian.
Zhu Jiaqian, a high-quality woman among the three sisters of the Zhu family. However, she had the best cards and played the worst results.
In terms of career, Zhu Jiaqian is young and promising. Her income is good, because she bought a rotten tail building, and all her savings have been lost.
Emotionally, she is unladylike and has maintained a PY relationship with her ex-boyfriend for a long time.
The feelings of adults are often simple and unpretentious, as long as both parties are willing and do some intimate actions, there is nothing wrong with it.
However, Zhu Jiaqian has higher psychological expectations for her ex-boyfriend - hoping that he can become a soul confidant and solve his spiritual distress.
However, when Zhu Jiaqian talks to her ex-boyfriend, we will find that this is just a sperm worm who is used to thinking in the lower body, and he does not care about Zhu Jiaqian's mental distress.
Zhu Jiaqian met her ex-boyfriend for the second time, and Zhu Jiaqian carried a large number of dishes and cooked for her ex-boyfriend.
If you think Zhu Jiaqian is just working as a kitchen lady for her ex-boyfriend, it is too simple. Before they went to the kitchen, they got into close contact.
Ang Lee did not directly show the scene of the two of them hey as they did the first time, and only used a small detail to hint that Zhu Jiaqian had changed her clothes.
Some people may say that changing clothes is not a sufficient and necessary condition for Zhu Jiaqian and her ex-boyfriend Hey Xiu.
That makes sense, but I'm inclined to do it both.
First, the clothes Zhu Jiaqian wore when cooking were obviously fat, implying that it was her ex-boyfriend's shirt. The ex-boyfriend's shirt is not an apron, and stir-fry is not a sufficient necessity for her to wear the ex-boyfriend's shirt. The biggest possibility of this is that they are hey.
Second, the ex-boyfriend is about to get married, and the words also hint at Zhu Jiaqian, and the two can still maintain a PY relationship. This shows that he has a high degree of enthusiasm for this kind of thing.
Zhu Jiaqian despises that the eldest sister is old and unmarried, but she does not know that she will copy the fate of the eldest sister (the author of this article does not think that the elderly unmarried is a failed life).
At Lao Zhu's confession feast, Aunt Liang complained to Shanshan, "When a child eats, his mouth is so sharp, he can't get married when he grows up."
This remark is not so much a spit on Shanshan as it is a hint at Zhu Jiaqian's fate.
After Aunt Liang finished speaking, the film only shows the reactions of Zhu Jiazhen and Zhu Jiaqian.
Zhu Jiazhen laughed out loud when she heard this. For a long time, not being able to marry out had been her survival anxiety, and if she hadn't been married, she would have been depressed to hear that.
This laughter has Zhu Jiazhen's pride, and the old lady is now famous and has a master.
Zhu Jiaqian looked at Aunt Liang with a look of displeasure.
Because the mouth has always been a feature of Zhu Jiaqian. As the editor of the film, Ang Lee naturally understood the message he wanted to convey. I think that Ang Lee's close-up of Zhu Jiaqian is to imply that she is difficult to marry.
Finally, let's talk about Zhu Jianing.
The third eldest of the Zhu family, the youngest has the most ideas, digging girlfriend corner masters, unmarried pregnant pioneer army.
Regarding Zhu Jianing's unmarried pregnancy, Ang Lee used a lot of small details.
First, in the 57th minute of the film, Zhu Jianning has symptoms of drowsiness. Anyone with fertility experience should know that drowsiness is a normal reaction during pregnancy.
Second, in the 68th minute of the film, Zhu Jianing took the initiative to give up her seat to pregnant women. This means that Zhu Jianing empathizes with the hardships of pregnant women.
With the foreshadowing of these two details, Zhu Jianing declared at the family banquet that he was unmarried and pregnant, which was reasonable.
The day Zhu Jianing went to Zhong Guolun's house, the two people had a relationship.
The two develop photos together, the red light emitted from the darkroom is the color of lust, and the intimate relationship between the two people is most likely to occur in the darkroom.
Understanding the four emotional lines of "Eating Men and Women", we can understand that Ang Lee is really a master of shooting erotic scenes.
He shows his character in different poses in "Color, Ring", and in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", he shoots the bamboo forest fight scene into a flirtation, and he can also shoot male and female love in a gentle and subtle way in "Eating Men and Women".
Laymen see the bustle, and people with hearts can see the doorway.
That's what a good director is, and it's why we love Ang Lee's work.