The Dragon Boat Festival is coming, some people have gathered from the salty rice dumpling district to the sweet rice dumpling district, some people have taken advantage of the small long holiday to travel to the great rivers and mountains, of course, you can also choose, in the evening of the Dragon Boat Festival, and the loved ones nestled in the sofa, while eating rice dumplings, while enjoying a food movie full of happiness.
Jon Feiru, is the name a bit familiar? It doesn't matter if you don't remember, because you must have seen his work — he was the director of Iron Man, the dream of billions of men and women.
Jon Feiru
After bidding farewell to the two globally popular business and entertainment masterpieces "Iron Man 1 and 2", after several years of precipitation, Jon Fei ru seems to want to find the feel of free creation at a small cost in the past, and through a self-written and self-directed gourmet road movie "Chef Down", a creator's inner cry is issued.
▲ "Fallen Chef" Phoenix Satellite TV Movie Station was broadcast at 12:00 on June 29
"Who comes from the mountains, lakes and seas, but is confined to day and night, kitchen and love." The Almighty Youth Hostel sang, and the unruly teenager gave up his arrogance and horse after meeting his sweetheart, washing his hands for soup, full of struggles and compromises.
But in life, not only rock and roll youth compromise for love, for chefs who love food, chai rice oil and salt also have dreams, take the dream with you on the road, your loved one will accompany you across the mountains and the sea, food and love do not have to live up.
The word "downfall" means a lot. In the "Chronicle of History", it is said that "the family is poor and depressed, and there is no way to eat and clothe." "Some people interpret it as losing a job that can make ends meet, so they are poor and depressed." But in my opinion, the real downfall is never hungry, or ragged, but losing dreams and stopping loving.
Kyle, the male protagonist in the film, has loved cooking since he was a child and is the chef of a small and famous restaurant, but the position of chef is not just a job for Kyle, but a career that he loves and manages with his heart.
So when the highly controlling boss constantly opposed his innovation in order to maintain a conservative source of customers, and when the dishes he carefully developed were criticized by food critics who only tasted one bite, he resolutely chose to resign.
Once he was alienated from his son because of excessive work, and now he has lost his job because of a love, middle age has reached, his wife has left him, and he insists on his dreams but has been repeatedly negatively evaluated, and Kyle looks like a down-and-out chef.
But fate doesn't seem to be a failure to carry the ideal backpacker on his shoulders, and the god of luck is ready to descend on this inspirational chef who injects soul into food.
At a time when Kyle's life was at a low point, with the encouragement of his ex-wife and friends, Kyle ran a fast food truck, where he did not have to be limited to anyone or care about his five-star chef status, he could be imaginative, he could inject all his ideas into the food, so that every dish had a soul.
When Kyle unloaded all kinds of shackles and tried to achieve what he wanted, life unexpectedly became clear.
On this fast food truck, Kyle regained his love of Cuban cuisine, abandoning the Western food he once did best in favor of a Middle Eastern sandwich as the staple of the food truck.
Compared with the intricate style of high-end cuisine, the Middle Eastern sandwich is a simple civilian dish that is easier to capture the hearts of pedestrians. Diners don't want much, a juicy slice of fried meat and two flakes of burnt toast can soothe the tiredness of a busy day for life.
In the life of traveling while cooking, Kyle and her son snuggled up to each other every second of the journey, successfully repairing the cracks in the father-son relationship, and after experiencing the low tide of life, Kyle finally broke the mirror with his ex-wife.
On this food truck, Kyle regains his love of cooking and life, proves his creative commitment, and brings his broken family back together. The ending, everyone rejoices.
Some people say that this is a fairy tale for middle-aged people, and in this dream woven by the director, society does not have too many gray and dark colors.
In the past road movies, the protagonist often faced various unknowns and challenges during the journey, there were trade-offs, gains and losses, and finally broke through himself and found a way out of life.
But in this movie, Jon Feiru seems to have deliberately skipped, the part of giving up and losing, with the greatest kindness, injecting love, family affection and friendship into this fast food truck journey, allowing luck to patronize the protagonist's life.
Such a setting is inevitably criticized by people full of fairy tales, and it seems that an overly smooth life cannot happen to a middle-aged person in society. But who stipulates that middle-aged people can't live without fairy tales?
Every scene, every plot, detail, and line of "The Fallen Chef" makes people feel warm, delicious and simple, which is the most prominent feature of the whole movie.
This must be Jon Feiru's favorite work, just like the chef he plays in the play, after concocting a five-star dinner like "Iron Man", "Chef Down" is the Cuban sandwich in his heart, there is no strict protocol, no need to sit in the right and left, everything is from the heart, every link to the best according to his own standards.
Such a dish and a movie may not be as complicated as a Michelin Samsung, but the smooth plot and narrative, the relaxed and pleasing plot, in exchange for allowing the audience to enjoy a flawless happiness without burden, is a simple and delicious and simple and comfortable light food.
If he can bring sunshine to some people's lives in addition to laughter, it may also be the first light he encounters when he walks in the dark for a long time.
Food and love have always been the subjects that filmmakers love.
Some people say that all things in the world, only love and food can not be disappointed. Love points to the heart, food points to the stomach, and the heart and stomach must always have one full. If you can be full of both, you are naturally very happy.
The nature of the color eater is also, where there is a human habit, there is food, and where there is well water, there is love. Food is sweet and sour, and so is love. "To grasp a man's heart, you must first grab his stomach." The lines that are said to be bad in the TV series are reasonable to exist. Sometimes with just one meal, love creeps up the table.
Kyle, the male protagonist in this film, is the same, in the food truck while cooking and traveling, he finds his love for life, his preference for ideals, his friendship with friends, and his belated love for his wife and son.
Kyle ben is a chef who is passionate about his own food hobby, but it is this fanaticism that makes him lose his marriage and lose his relationship with his son, he always tries to compensate and give the child in a material way, but in fact, the child wants something very simple, that is, to be able to have more father's company.
When the film ends, when the son will record the time of the family working together in the fast food truck through video and make it into a mini-film, Kyle finally realizes that the reason why he feels happy in the whole process is not just to make the food he wants to make, but on this journey, he and his family and partners have created many good memories, because of their existence, the journey has a wonderful spark, and the food has a happy taste.
In the eyes of outsiders, this fast food truck is a helpless retreat for Chef Kyle Mountain, but only he understands that the meaning of this fast food truck to him is not only the persistence of his dreams, but also allows him to find a balance between food and love, both of which must be lived up to.
Good feelings should not be disappointed, and so should food, and good food can always evoke heart-warming memories.
I remember that in the year of the middle school entrance examination, I came across a propositional composition called "The Taste of the Dragon Boat Festival". After the dispute between the southern and northern sweets of zongzi had a fight in my mind, I realized that the salty taste and sweetness of zongzi did not seem to be the taste of the Dragon Boat Festival, and for me, the taste of the Dragon Boat Festival was the smell of moxibustion emitted by my grandmother.
Each food, sweet and sour, bitter and spicy taste is different, but in addition to the taste of the food itself, the people and stories behind the food, and the love that flows are the force that makes this taste enduring.
The Dragon Boat Festival has arrived, and there are several problems.
Have you come back to the person you love? Have you eaten rice dumplings full of happiness?
If not, go for it!
Film Forecast
Movie Chef Downfall
June 29 at 12:00
Of all things in the world, only love and food can not be disappointed.
Text: Zhao Jiaying
Editors: focusd, Xiaojing