One of Ang Lee's family trilogies, "Eating Men and Women", more than twenty years later, still seems to be a classic, Confucius said: Diet men and women, people's great desires also! It means that appetite and the love of men and women are man's greatest desires, which is human nature.
"Diet Men and Women" first talk about diet, the first time to see "Diet Men and Women" is completely because the cooking food shots inside make people hungry, people are iron, rice is steel, you said that eating is not important.
In the bustling city, a life is staged, and the male protagonist Lao Zhu appears, who is a chef.
The opening shows Lao Zhu's knife skills, such as the flow of clouds and water, a fish three times five divided by two is cleaned up, barbecue fried, cooking food, the original cooking can also be an art, just watching the process is also a kind of enjoyment.
Lao Zhu, as a father, would organize a family gathering once a week, and the party seemed to have become an unwritten rule, and no matter how busy the family was, they would take time to go home to reunite, although this reunion was enforced by Lao Zhu.
Lao Zhu made a table of dishes, there are crab powder small dumplings, there are brine duck, Dongpo meat, squirrel fish, cold jellyfish, fried bells, dried scallops mustard hearts, stir-fried double crisp, chrysanthemum fruit, rock sugar yuanbao, red bun chicken, full of table dishes, people watching DC salivation, is this not China on the tip of the tongue?
That's right! This table of dishes are all made by Lao Zhu alone, killing fish, killing chickens, cutting vegetables, he can do all the dishes when the family arrives, after all, Lao Zhu prepared this table dish from morning to evening, and the phone did not forget to talk about the experience of cooking, who called the phone, unknown!
In the movie "Eating Men and Women", there are a total of six dinner scenes before and after, which appear a variety of dishes, it is said that there are a total of eighty-four dishes in the movie, and sixty-eight dishes are cooked by Taiwanese chef Shi Jiansheng, and the actors have a blessing.
My favorite dish is still home cooking, Lao Zhu to Jinrong's little daughter Shanshan's dishes look more delicious, there are Wuxi ribs, there are crab meat vegetable hearts, there are chicken shreds, green beans and shrimp, plus bitter melon rib soup, the point is that Lao Zhu just casually made a few dishes, which has made Shanshan's classmates envious.
After talking, talk about men and women, the father is the only man in the family, the three daughters are adults, there are 10,000 years of single dog eldest daughter Jia Zhen, there is a rebellious second daughter Jia Qian, and there is a well-behaved little daughter Jia Ning.
The three daughters have their own hearts, in the face of delicious food is also absent-minded, the first dinner in the movie, the second daughter Jiaqian began to pick the problem of the dish, saying that the dish has a clam flavor, which also hints at the beginning of the degradation of the old Zhu taste, and then Jiaqian announced that she bought a house and was ready to move out of this home.
The contradiction between Jia Qian and her father is very deep, Jia Qian originally likes to cook like her father, but her father opposed Jia Qian's dream as a chef, and Jia Qian had no choice but to choose aviation major.
And Jia Qian this person has a rebellious spirit, in the relationship between men and women Jia Qian is more open, which is also unacceptable to Lao Zhu, the attitude of the two at the dinner table is always tense.
The eldest daughter, Jia Zhen, as the eldest daughter of the family, made up a lie about her situation of not falling in love as an older young woman, how inexplicable? I think it was Jia Zhen's refusal to leave her father's reason.
Jia Zhen, who seems to have no character, is brave when he erupts, especially forcibly pulling the man home, as if the stone that has been suppressed for a long time has finally landed.
Jia Zhen was initially touched by the students' forged anonymous love letters, but no one came to confess for a long time, and Jia Zhen shouted at the school horn, "Why can I only talk about love to the air?" "Wait, it shocked the whole school!" Only hurriedly took the initiative to establish a relationship with the physical education teacher, too explosive!
Men and women are always full of desire, the little daughter Jia Ning, who seems to be a well-behaved woman, always walks close to her girlfriend's boyfriend, she can't understand the girlfriend's attitude towards the boyfriend's arrogance, which makes Jia Ning and the girlfriend boyfriend get closer and closer, and the girlfriend's rich second-generation boyfriend eventually becomes his boyfriend, this behavior looks like green tea...
I thought that the first to leave should be the eldest daughter, I never expected that the first person to leave home was the younger daughter Jia Ning, Jia Ning was pregnant, and had to marry her son, which Lao Zhu did not expect. Suddenly, Jia Ning left this home, making Lao Zhu feel more and more lonely.
In particular, Lao Zhu was more afraid after experiencing the death of his friend, not only because of the departure of his daughter, but also because of his own aging.
Among these three daughters, the person who wanted to leave at the beginning did not leave, Jia Qian because of the old man's advice, began to understand her father, looking at her father's back can not help but cry, Wu Qianlian in the movie this scene is very infectious, want to cry and can not hold back to cry.
Personally think that Jia Qian and Lao Zhu should be the most similar, Jia Qian said that he did not go abroad after the eldest sister and little sister left home one after another, Lao Zhu said, then you can still live here, in fact, he does not want his daughter to leave, it is completely possible to change a more cordial word, Old Zhu did not.
At the last family banquet, Lao Zhu said that he wanted to sell the old house, buy a new house, and throw out a big melon, which made everyone stunned!
"I don't want to be like cooking in my life, and the ingredients are ready to cook. Mrs. Liang, I assure you that as long as old man Zhu is still there, I will certainly not let Jinrong and his wife starve and freeze. Old Zhu announced that he was with his daughter Jiazhen's classmate Jinrong, and that Jinrong was pregnant.
For jinrong, a classmate of his daughter Jiazhen, jinrong has always existed like the fourth daughter of lao Zhu, and Jinrong, who lacked fatherly love since childhood, had a fatherly complex under the care of old Zhu.
Old Zhu has long made a wishful calculation, such as wooing Jinrong's daughter Shanshan, taking the initiative to cook for Shanshan, and chatting warmly with Mrs. Liang are all conspiratorial, and Old Zhu is the real old beast! That's your daughter's girlfriend??
At the end of "Eating Men and Women", JiaQian personally cooked soup, and after his father drank the soup, he found that his sense of taste recovered, Lao Zhu finally called out "daughter" softly, Jia Qian replied to "Dad", a warm ending full of love, and the knot between Jia Zhen and his father was finally unraveled.
Every time you watch "Diet Men and Women" has a different feeling, this is a family film with Chinese flavor, it is a rare excellent old film, the whole film is very delicate, those small details shoot out the sour, sweet and bitter life, home has become a sense of ceremony and rules, everyone is suppressing, home is a conflict and a destination, Ang Lee has already laid everything.
"Diet Men and Women" We want to eat, we also want to live, so we understand life in the meal, wine and food full of thoughts * desire, Ang Lee will run this point of view through the movie, the character's repression is obviously stuffy, and the relationship between men and women is sullen, no matter what, we have to experience the taste of life, is the desire to promote, but also the inevitability of life.
Whether you admit it or not, we all eat men and women, and "Diet Men and Women" is really hungry after watching it!