‘Eat Drink Man Woman’ was a great film about family, food, love, and life. It was a visually stunning film to watch. It presents a different kind of love represented by food: the food itself is detailed and beautifully depicted. This attention to detail is then echoed by the gestures of love throughout the film. Though food is a universal topic, Eat Drink Man Woman emphasizes the Chinese concept of food as social function, the central place it holds in the formation and maintenance of relationships. In a family that has increasingly less in common with each other, the weekly dinner is a place to come together, and for Mr. Chu to reassert his role as head of the family. This was a great watch, and I surely would recommend!

I got to see the Chinese film Eat Drink Man Woman where girls celebrate chinese new year with their father. The father would always make the food and eat with the family, but he did not taste any of the food because of his age. His senses were not good.

All of the girls ended up getting boyfriends, leaving the father all alone. He ended up getting with the neighbor, whose kid he made lunches for. I felt that this move was very nice but very sad. The father ends up selling the house, which is also very sad.

Last week in celebration of the Chinese New Year I was able to watch the movie Eat Drink Man Woman. I really loved this film and how it tackled your want to be independent and your responsibility to family. It struck me how the daughter that wanted to move out and leave her family ended up being the one to stay with her father until he found his happiness again. She also found herself in the house she grew up in by being able to cook in the kitchen without her father controlling it. This film tackled the importance of family as a support system despite having some confrontations. The daughter found a way to understand her father and to find a way to communicate with him again. This whole relationship showed me how sometimes it may be hard to put ourselves in our parent’s shoe but if we try then we may actually come to understand what they are going through. Another thing that struck me was how the story seemed to revolve around the food or family dinners that they had on a regular basis. Certain main events that changed many things happened at these meals yet these meals were continuous. It seemed to me that these meals were the foundation of the family and they allowed the family to deal with all the things that come their way.

Again, the Rose Scholar program took me outside my comfort zone with this all subtitled foreign (Chinese) film.  The movie revolved around the lives of a father, who is a master chef, and his three grown daughters.  The father did not seem to have a close loving relationship with the girls.  Instead, the father seemed to save all his love for preparing extremely elaborate traditional Chinese cuisine.  Food was very important to the father, much more important than his daughters.  Every Sunday, the father would cook one of these elaborate meals for his daughters that would take him all day to prepare.   When the father served the meal, no one appeared particularly happy and the daughters did not seem so impressed with the meal.    It appeared that the father had more of a relationship with the food he cooked than with his daughters.  Toward his daughters the father seemed cold and robotic, while he showed the food he prepared real love.  Maybe the only way he knew to show love to his girls was through his cooking.   However, the father would probably have been better off expressing his love for the girls more openly and directly.  In the end the girls all found new loving relationships that did not revolve around their father and food.  Overall, the movie was good and it kept my attention for the entire two hours.

In the movie Eat Drink Man Woman, the duality of food and romance present throughout creates an interesting dynamic. These two elements seem to depend on one another, with romantic encounters being sparked by food and food being reminisced and devoured after the vigor of a physical encounter. Similarly, the protagonist’s youngest granddaughter also seems to have a recurring theme of food throughout the movie, as she asks for his cooking to take with her to school in her lunch. Therefore, these two things seem to dictate the same, or similar, meaning in the film, as they depict the two elements of vitality, in other words, they are both quintessential for the actualization of life’s true value. As evident in many of the younger character’s lives where there is limited romance, the movie shows a recurring theme of a life not fully lived, and only when they find romance do they truly become elated.
I very much agree with this idea as in my own life, without romance, I’ve witnessed a synonymous lack of self-value in their lives as if they were condemned to miss the pleasantries of a home-cooked meal. Therefore, I hope this movie reminds us of the immense importance of the relationships we form in our own lives and the way we live externally, not only watching what we eat internally. Only after one has an excellent balance of both a satisfactory diet and a suitable social life can one fully realize his true happiness.

On Friday, I watched Eat Drink Man Woman, which is a film about the Chu family in Tawain. Mr. Chu is a well-respected chef, and cooks extravagant dinners for his three daughters every Sunday. The dinners looked awesome and super over-the-top, and really added nice visuals to the film.

One thing that I found interesting is how Mr. Chu eventually recovered his sense of taste. At the beginning of the movie, Mr. Chu originally loses his sense of taste, which causes the food he makes to taste kinda bad. By the end of the movie, the daughters have eventually found their husbands and left the house, except for the second daughter, Chu Jia Chien. She originally wanted to go into the culinary industry and had the talent to become a top chef, but Mr. Chu forced her to abandon this dream and pursue an education. When Mr. Chu decides to announce his plan to marry Liang Jin-Rong, he moves out of this old-house. Chu Jia Chien then cooks one last meal in that house, and her soup brings back Mr. Chu’s taste. This sudden recovery of Mr. Chu’s taste suggests that he finally found enjoyment in life. Prior to his marriage, Mr. Chu was a widow, and cooked mostly as a career and also as a way to keep his family together. After his unconventional marriage, Mr. Chu isn’t as strict with his daughters, and lets them go their own ways. Mr. Chu and his daughters are finally satisfied with their lives, and instead of worrying about his daughters, he can finally start to live for himself.