Eat Drink Man Woman
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From celebrated director Ang Lee (The Ice Storm, Sense and Sensibility) comes a movieso visually stunning that it spans the “beautiful balance of elementsmellow, harmonious and poignantly funny” (The Washington Post). This “charming study of love, family and tradition” (Leonard Maltin) “tickles both mind and body” (Movie Reviews UK). Trouble is cooking forwidower and master chef Chu (Sihung Lung) who’s about to discover that no matter how dazzling and delicious his culinary creations might be, they’re no match for the libidinous whims of his three beautiful but rebellious daughters. A master in the kitchen, Chu is at a loss when it comes to the ingredients of being a father. Every Sunday, he whips up a delicacy of dishes for his ungrateful daughters, who are so self-consumed that they don’t see his attempt at showing them lovegastronomically.So, as relationships sour and communications break down, Chu concocts a sure-fire recipe that will bring his family back together: He creates his own love affair to rival his daughters’ affections!Amazon.com essential video
This is not a movie to see on an empty stomach. Writer-director Ang Lee’s 1994 Oscar nominee tells a family story about a chef and his three daughters through the meals the chef prepares and serves his family. This touching, dryly funny story of a family coping with personal lives and the way those lives intersect with the family relationships captures a shift in generations in Taipei. The father, a famous chef who has lost his taste buds, still cooks, though he draws no pleasure from eating. His daughters, meanwhile, deal with both the disappointments and surprises of daily living and the way their adult lives compare to the expectations the widowed father had for them. A subtle, amusing–and mouth-watering–comedy of impeccable manners. –Marshall Fine
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I expected some Matrix-style action sequences, or at least some Taco Bell tie-ins- and I found none. How can a film expect to be good if people just stand around talking and doing stuff? This film desperately needed Keanu Reeves.
Rating: 1 / 5
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.
Rating: 4 / 5
Kinda funny that we all fall for marketing schemes aimed at us ethnic people. Tortilla soup is the same film!!! Both have the same issues and the only diffrence is that one is more americanised than the other. I prefer Tortilla more sine I can relate to it better better. But come on give us something more than a recycled scrip aimed at another race! …
Rating: 1 / 5
I have just purchased this item from Amazon, but feel misled by those so many stars! The movie was boring, there were unnecessary parts, mostly long enough to make you fall a sleep on the couch…
The story telling is very poor, and there are gaps between scenes, missing details etc. Character structuring is also very weak. The story telling is also lacking emotions that you would want to expect form this movie.
If you are collecting chinese movies then go ahead and buy Eat Drink Man Woman but otherwise don’t waste your money and time on this movie.
Not Recommended !
Rating: 3 / 5
If you’ve seen Tortilla Soup, there is no need to watch this movie. This is just the Chinese version of the said movie. The similarities of these 2 movies are so prominent that it would actually be a waste of time and money to buy both – same characters, same plot only in a different setting.
I got to enjoy the scenes with food, though…
Rating: 2 / 5