Eat Drink Man Woman | Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang

Eat Drink Man Woman | Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang | A Great Representation of Modern Chinese Family Culture

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Eat Drink Man Woman

	Eat Drink Man Woman Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang MGM (Video & DVD), 2002 average customer review:based on 105 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Good drama

I'm originally from Taiwan, and I can say that this film captures genuinly the father-child and teacher-student relationship over there. There might be even times viewers from the Western countries wonder why they act this way. But that's the cultural difference.

The intensity and pace of the film is regulated perfectly. The story is unconventional, so it's not your average film, whose story can be explained in a few lines. So whether you're interested in the culture, or you just want a good drama about family values, working relationships, or expectations from family members on eather other, this is a good film to watch. One of Ang Lee's best film.

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A Great Representation of Modern Chinese Family Culture

If you're willing to read subtitles this is an excellent foreign film, set in Taiwan, about the importance of and the tight connection between a person's individual identity and his/her family life in Chinese society and culture. The work lives, interpersonal lives, and spiritual lives of four main characters are explored and interwoven, with the Sunday dinner table being the terminus at which they all meet and from which we switch characters and depart on the continuing exploration of each person's life. Each of the main character's lives would be interesting enough for its own full-length movie; so together they keep you thinking and interested from opening to closing credits. In this masterful cultural portrait of the balanced interplay between life and death, work and love, family and self, food and deprivation, Ang Lee allows us to see and experience the intimate details of a major world culture, which is vastly different from our own in the western world. The popular theme of traditional Chinese culture being impacted by modern life is addressed in a more realistic, less overdone, manner than in many movies, and the multi-generational presentation of interwoven lives makes it more easily understandable and complete. This is a movie that will leave you with a warm smile of satisfaction and deeper understanding of what it is to be a person on this planet.

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1994

To R. Acorda, Tortilla Soup (2001) is a Western adaption of Ang Lee's original (1994).

If you are a foodie, you will love this movie.

The food scenes in this movie are eye candy for us foodies. I love cooking and I have never seen food displayed or prepared in a movie as it is in this one.
The story line is charming in its concept of how food relates to our lives and our relationships. The fact that this is a subtitled movie did not bother me at all, because the scenes with the food were so tremendous that I couldn't stop staring.
If you love food you will thoroughly enjoy this movie.

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