Eat Drink Man Woman

The following film is named “Eat Drink Man Woman”. This film belongs to the Taiwanese cinema and was directed by known director Ang Lee. In this film a lot of traditional can be appreciated. Basically this film tries to make the characters of the movie interact with food.

The film starts with an old man; retired master chef Chu, preparing dinner for his family. He lives with his three daughters who seem to have a problem of communication sometimes with him. It looks like with the pass of the time chef Chu has lost his ability to sense the taste of food and has also become a solitary man due to the death of his wife. In the other hand his daughters are starting to experience the feeling of love. Surprisingly, his youngest daughter meets a young guy who makes her pregnant. Then she decides to leave chef Chu and her two sisters to start a new life with this guy.

While this happens, chef Chu starts to receive offers to get on the kitchen again and start to work. He rejects these offers and decides to stay home. He stills have two daughters to who support. What he doesn’t know is that both girls have other plans in mind. One is growing professionally and the other is growing in feelings toward a man. This situation becomes a conflict for both daughters, because they feel that if they decide to go ahead with their desires or projects they could leave his father abandoned. However, what they didn’t know is that his father had already another woman in his life. For the surprise of everybody she was a young woman. This becomes the break point towards the end. Since that moment every family member takes a different path towards a new happiness. However, they seem to always meet to enjoy dinner.

I’m not the typical love movie fanatic. However, I found this film interesting. This is the good thing about films that are made internationally. They try to exploit the plot of their movies to the most. I found very interesting the way they focused to compare how food and the value of food sharing in a table can unify a family. I also liked how all big decisions that every member of the family were taken were revealed during dinner time.