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Eat Drink Man Woman

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Media:	DVD
Directed by:	Ang Lee
Starring:	Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang
Release date:	07 September, 2004

Average user rating: Average user rating: 4.5

2 things to remind you here:

for this movie titled as 'eat, drink, man, woman' basically was wrong. this four words together in chinese mean:
'eat, drink and sex' are the only desires we human beings are interested. after you've been fed satisfactorily and got the energy, the next thing you naturally could and would think about is, well, SEX. that's why confucius said, 'eat, drink and sex are the only desires and lust where peoples' minds are setting upon.'
but not in this mis-interpretated movie.
in this movie we saw a papa-san chef retired from grand hotle, taipei, taiwan, doing a daily gourmet cooking ritual so complicated out of a barrenly equipped family kitchen, that's first thing totally impossible! how could he afford buying so many food and ingredients and doing it in that specific tough and poor era?
the 2nd ridiculous fatal flaw was that this retired chef obviously stole a lot of cooking wares and expensive table wares from grand hotel before he retired.
did you notice that he got all the complete sets of commercial cooking utensils? the complete expensive commercial standard matching plates, soup bowls, rice bowls, saucers, cups, even chopsticks?
the problems of ang lee's production group was that they totally overlooked the logic, the possibility and the feasibility of convincing a thinking viewer to accept such poor arrangement. you simply could not just borrowed so many things directly from the grand hotel's restaurant and let those stuff show up in the retired chef's home and made him look like a master thief committed grand theft.
how could a guy owned so many expensive and complete sets of commercial stuff? did grand hotel ever discover how many items were missing? if the pilferage was so serious, then why nobody ever noticed, not even his 4 daughters?
how could this old chef snatched so many huge items from the hotel's restaurant kitchen to his home kitchen was beyond my imagination. obviously he's not just a great chef, he's also definitely a master thief.
ang lee directed this movie just based upon the face value of these 4 chinese words was only a proof that his interpretation of the chinese culture is so wrong and so shallow, just like his choice of making the 'the crouching tiger and the hidden dragon'.
since the story he picked to make it into movie was actually the worst part of the whole saga. that part was long after the author quitted writing of this novel, and then had to do it again by hooking up from the ending of his last famous and successful novel to cash in more easily and faster (just like so many famous american writers). because he became so poor after quitted writing, he needed the money to pay the debt and to make a barely affordable living, he then quickly wrote this totally unnecesary sequel--the worst part of the saga--that almost ruined his whole achievement.
this sequal had turned all the great depth of the former hero and heroine into helpless wimps and allowed the ruthless and conscience-less new heroine to mess up and turned everything upside down.
it's so ironic that the author would have chosen in such way to finish his great work of pre-modern-day chinese literature in a 180 degrees turnaround, and pathetically picked up by ang lee again later into a mindless chinese wu-shiah movie.

Delicious film!

This is one of the best food films I have ever seen. Not only do the scenes featuring food preparation make your mouth water (do not see this movie on an empty stomach!), but, the acting is warm and believable, and the story is engaging, entertaining and thought provoking.

An elderly Taiwanese chef with three grown daughters has lost his ability to taste, following the death of his wife. This is particulary unfortunate because the one way he is still able to connect with his children is every Sunday, when he prepares colorful and extravegant family style meals with great pots of soup, dumplings, duck, and sauces. Unfortunately, with his lack of tastebuds, the flavors in his food are also beginning to suffer. This film also examines his daughter's struggle with self identity as they balance the tensions of tradition and the fast approaching modern lifestyle they face before them.

This film is appealing to those who cook, those who enjoy eating and anyone who likes good films with intelligent character development that examine human relationships. This is a film that truly speaks the universal language of family.

A celebration of excellence in an imperfect world ..

This wonderfull, exquisite and delicous DVD excells on many fronts. First.. it's one of the first food movies where the food plays a central part of the film ... Second it's a super family story of the widdowed chef at one of China's largest and sumptous meets every Sunday to prepare the family dinner with his three young and beautifull daughters Third It's a story of tradgedy, stife and conflict as the one daughter least expected to shows up pregnant. Fourth ..the director Ang Lee is probably one of the best in the industry hands down ....

I would sing more praises of this film and Ang Lee's work but I think you get the picture ....