Eat drink man and woman

This movie is about Senior Master Chef Chu who lives in a large house in Taipei with his three unmarried daughter. Also his wife passed away and he was racing his three daughters on his own. The first one was Jia-Jen,she was a chemistry teacher who used to work at a school. She made up a lie about having a boy friend in collage, and they broke up and also she was trying to show that she was so upset about it. She will fall in love with the volleyball coach at the school she was working at, and later on in the movie she will get married to him and he will convert to Christianity. The second daughter was Jia-Chien, who was an airline executive. She didn’t have a really good bond with her father, she was complaining about his cooking because her father was getting old and he was losing his taste to the food he cooks, when the movie goes on we will find out that she is the only one who will find out about her father’s sickness. The last one was Jia-Ning. She was a student who also works in a fast food restaurant, who also happened to fall in love with her fiend’s boyfriend. After her friend break up with her boyfriend she will get married and move in with him.

When the movie goes on we will find out that all those girls have an uncle who happened to be a chef too and he was working with their father in a big restaurant in Taiwan. Their uncle will die and that when the middle daughter will find out about her father’s sickness. They all lived together till the oldest and the youngest daughters got married and the moved out of the house. At the end of the movie the father Chef Chu decided to sell the house because it has all of his memories with his wife that passed away. The middle daughter bought the house form her dad after he got married to one the neighbors.

This movie has a major theme which is that romantic relationships give life meaning and are necessities of life (such as eating and drinking). Since the family members have difficulty expressing their love for one another, the intricate preparation of banquet quality dishes for their Sunday dinners serves as a surrogate for the spoken expression of their familial feelings. Another theme is the burden of aging. Chef Chu is depicted as having lost his "one true love" (his wife), losing another (his ability to taste) and about to lose all three daughters to marriage, not to mention the usual specter of old age.

I really liked the movie and I really like all the different types of food that they were cooking in the movie. Also all the emotions and the relationships are something that we as humans in our time now can relate too.