People say that among the current writers and directors, the ones who are full of Chinese flavor are not mainlanders, but our compatriots in Hong Kong and Macau. This is true. Look at Li Bihua's "Rouge Button" and "Farewell My Concubine", Lee Ang's "Pushing Hands", "Wedding Banquet", "Lust Caution", Yang Fan's "Dream in the Garden", Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love" and "East Evil" "Western Poison" is a Chinese style with heavy makeup or a light cloud.
"Diet Men and Women" is no exception. A section of steamed and boiled Chinese dishes suffocated people. What kind of Mei Cai Kou Po, Hakka Stir-Fry, Sautéed Conch, Stir-fried Conch, Double Pepper Fried Squid Head, Braised Chicken Wings, Bak Kut Teh, Crispy Barbecue Pork Ribs, Fried Pork with Rice and White Fungus, Curry Crayfish, American Ginseng Stewed Ou The bones were put on the table one by one, dazzling people.
Elder Zhu's life is as confusing as this dish, and he doesn't know how to start. I am old and my taste buds have no effect. Although I refuse to accept the old, I also deceived myself and others and acted helplessly. Of the three daughters, none of them is worry-free. The eldest daughter Jiazhen made up a story of being abandoned to escape love. In fact, she had no confidence and became a Christian, wearing the simplest clothes and living the most boring life. The second daughter, Jiaqian, had always been dissatisfied with her father because her father had chosen a life path that everyone admired but didn't like. The youngest daughter, Jianing, has always been the quietest one, and doesn't cause much trouble, but what is hidden inside is actually a restless heart. The three daughters were thinking of fleeing their father’s hometown, but there seemed to be no way except Jia Qian.
There are three people in the neighbor Liang's family: Mrs. Liang, who just came back from her daughter's house in the United States, was so angry that she would talk disappointing when she saw people, but the old man Liang often visited and listened to her quietly. Daughter Jin Rong (played by Zhang Aijia), a good friend of Jiazhen, lost her father since she was a child, and grew up under the protection of the Zhu family. Her marriage life is in a mess. The divorce procedures have been processed for many years before she has some eyebrows. Her husband is also lined up with private detectives. So, I hope I can seize some handles to get custody of my daughter Shanshan. Jin Rong's daughter Shanshan, who knows nothing about elementary school students, likes to pester Jianing to draw on the computer.
I have seen the plot introduction saying that Mr. Zhu will keep a hand at the end, so I will dig out every detail, hoping to guess the mystery of the idea. But the final outcome still shocked me. This point will be mentioned later.
In fact, the second daughter Jiaqian cared about her father most, but she just couldn't say it. She also knew that she was so angry with her father. After hearing what Uncle Gui said, she felt that her father was old and should be more concerned about his body. Meeting her father again and again in the heart examination department of the hospital made her feel guilty.
The girl became more and more disobedient, and the old man became less and less able to do. One day he met Shanshan who was going to school and saw that she was taking money to buy hamburgers for lunch every day, so he volunteered to make lunch for her. I have given myself something to do. Usually, he often ran to Mrs. Liang to chat. I feel more old.
Unexpectedly, the quietest Jianing turned out to be the first to leave. She snatched her friend's boyfriend. She became pregnant after she was unmarried and became a wealthy wife, so everything went smoothly. Escaped this home in full view.
The eldest daughter Jiazhen was stirred up by several anonymous love letters at this time. She always thought that they were written by her favorite physical education teacher, and she was delighted, but he did not express it for a long time. (I have always thought that they were the time when Mr. Zhu used to give Shanshan meals, and put them on her table every day, so that she could observe the people around her and dress up to find the one she likes. As a result, I was intolerable. The idea is of course unfounded.) Finally, she couldn’t stand her temper, dressed in a showy manner, and yelled at the school’s loudspeaker, “Why can I only talk about love to the air?!” Wait, the whole school was shocked. Up. But it really seems that these love letters are just naughty tricks by a few classmates, not from the hands of the physical education teacher. But when the physical education teacher comforted her crying, she was bold enough to win him over. In the end, she had to leave, and hurriedly did a notarization with the man. The reason was that "can't wait", she was dragged to the family in front of her family that night, and she got on the other's motorbike before finishing the meal. Go, tears still gleamed in her eyes: the love she had waited for for 9 years finally came to fruition.
It seems that people who are really Mongsao usually don't show up. Once it breaks out, they can't stop it like a fire, and thunder to the bone. It is the second daughter, Jia Qian, who is usually a sensible person, but in the end slowly faded away, returned to peace, left the old lover, rejected the new lover, gave up the opportunity to go to Amsterdam, thinking about taking care of his father. People are alive to such extremes, when the dullness reaches a certain level, it is about to explode, but when the publicity reaches a certain degree, it is not far from returning to zero.
When the family has reached this point, it is bitter even without seeing it. Although the father's food is good and his hands are so good, the daughters have no time to taste the love inside. It’s no wonder that Mr. Zhu wants to say, “What's the point of making people’s minds so rough, and doing so well.” I even thought this film would end in tragedy. I had to wait for the elderly father to have a serious physical problem before the daughters could Realize the importance of family affection. Now when I think about it, if the plot also returns to the imagination of laymen like me, there will be nothing new and praiseworthy.
In the end, all the people who should go were gone, and there were only two people left in the old house, the father and the daughter. But my father suddenly summoned everyone to dinner and said that something important was announced. Everyone speculated that the marriage between the father and the old lady Liang had settled. Even the old lady Liang put on the most enchanting cheongsam. Before entering the door, she repeatedly asked her daughter's opinions on her new brooch, cautiously. The dishes are still extraordinary. During the dinner, the father suddenly got up and announced that he would sell the old house and replace it with a small house elsewhere. Everyone was shocked, I thought this was what he had left, and I was thinking that this old man was really thinking about it. Unexpectedly, he said again,
"I don’t want to be like cooking in my life, waiting for the ingredients to be prepared and cooked. Mrs. Liang, I assure you that as long as my old man Zhu is still there, I will not let the two Jin Rong’s suffer. Hungry and cold." He submitted his physical health checklist to Mrs. Liang next to him.
It turned out that he was going to marry Jinrong!
The feeling at that time was like a blow to the head, it was really a scene that had never been expected by a thousand guesses. All the relatives were also shocked, and it was the old man who was madly talking nonsense. Ahem, this is the climax of the film, this shock seems to have only been experienced in "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural". Ang Lee is absolutely absolutely nothing.
But then I thought that the plot was not abrupt. In fact, Li An had already stitched the plot into the plot with fine needles and threads. At the beginning of the film, there was also a man who taught someone how to make fish on the phone. In the evening, Jin Rong led Shanshan to visit. The first sentence was "Where is Dad Zhu?" The little fellow Shanshan also complained to his mother, saying that the fish was muddled. In fact, the director let the wind go out a little bit early in the morning, but the people who watched the movie were too thick and didn't notice it. It turned out that the old man made a lunch for Shanshan, not because he had nothing to do, but because he wanted to draw a small oil bottle; the old man chatted with Mrs. Liang, not because he met a friend in Qianli, but was to please his mother-in-law. That's really staggering! It is not surprising that Jin Rong lost his father since he was a child and was taken care of by Mr. Zhu and developed an Electra complex. Unexpectedly, because of his daughter's estrangement, Mr. Zhu gave birth to some lover complexes, which happened to be together. I remembered a comment from a netizen, "If I were Zhang Aijia, I might have the same choice. This man, he cares about my children, he will eat my children’s leftovers, he was like that when he was standing in the kitchen. Quiet and without complaints, he is still tall and upright. The most important point is that he will live." At the end, she kissed him gently on the cheek, and a thousand words were melted into the phrase "love you", then Smiling is also shy. Zhang Aijia’s acting skills are always so faintly refreshing, and always so comfortable. For example, in "20.30.40", she talked gently with the sick old lady, such as when she was on the plane in "Heartbeat", she looked through When the old lover sent the photos. It is true that "Diet Men and Women" is even more shining because of a small role played by Zhang Aijia.
At the end, Jia Qian personally cooks and invites her family to eat, but only her father comes. Everything returned to peace again. While the father was drinking the soup, he casually blamed his daughter's Jiang Fang for being innocent, but suddenly found that his sense of taste had returned. Oh, what he tasted is the taste, it is clearly a strong love. He said softly, "Daughter." Jia Qian replied, "Dad." The
movie ended.
It's a really good film, full of Chinese flavor, and it didn't fall into the tragedy of injury. It is a thriving ending. From time to time, it has to be unexpected. Ang Li claims to be the director of Mensao, this film is also his most boring drama. The family, the eldest daughter and the father of the third daughter, are more coquettish than anyone in their bones, and on the surface more serious than anyone else. So once the show, it was really shocking. Especially the big secret of the father. At the beginning, I only saw the daughters becoming more and more beautiful than one by one. At the end, I realized that my dad was the fiercest, and I didn't confide in the critical moment. His old man patted the table, "I want to move! I want to marry my'girlfriend'!" The glasses were all broken.
At this point, I've seen all of Lee Ang's family trilogy. "Pushing Hands" is a dull grief that has been unhappy for a long time after watching it. "The Wedding Banquet" is interesting and hectic, with a little surprise (for example, my father can't understand English but pretended not to understand). And "Diet for Men and Women" is the most touching and unexpected. Originally speaking, it was the art of eating, and the last family found the most suitable destination for them. After thinking about it carefully, the match with the English film title "Eat Drink Man Woman" is really just right. "Book of Rites" says, "Eat men and women, people have great desires." In this film, I want to talk about people's desires. In fact, I still eat less and feel more emotional.
In fact, children can also appreciate the feelings of their parents, but they still can’t say it, and they are too embarrassed to express it, so they quarrel and get angry day after day. Ugh. I'm leaving next year. My parents stay at home, empty and lonely. I feel sad when I think about it.
Don't mention the sad thing again.
In short, this film is really a rare good film. Especially after watching countless disgusting and dull bad movies recently, I feel that this movie is rare. The most hateful films now are those that are not very good but dull and sad. For example, "Shinjuku Incident" which caused Daniel Wu to cut off his hand. It is matched with the same dull and dark but actually good "Disciple". Let me watch it. After that, I was diagnosed with depression, and I was so sad that I didn't go to class for a week. It’s not just their dull grief that makes me suffer like this. I am a person, the most unseen is a bad film. After watching one, I will always feel uncomfortable for many days, as if I swallowed something unclean. , It takes a long time to recover from nausea. But this "Diet for Men and Women" is different. After reading it, I just feel refreshed and refreshed, as if all my worries have disappeared. Li An is really a rare director. Convinced. Five-body cast.
Oh, a good movie is worth more than ten Tongxin pills, which is really good.
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