How can we be happy?
In February, the theme film "The Equation of Food and Love" is like water × Houlang. Happiness may be a simple tomato scrambled eggs, and happiness lies in the process of cooking carefully.
The score of Xiaoyao Xiang on Douban is 7.4, which is not as good as the first movie "Moonhead Pudding" released this month, but from the emotional point of view after watching the movie, Xiaoyao Xiang is slightly better.
The story of the film begins with Lao Wang's scrambled eggs with tomatoes. The blue flame, the sound of eggs bursting in a hot oil pan, the picture switched to Lao Wang's focused eyes and expressions, followed by tomatoes, cooking, seasoning and other dishes. The beginning of the film is full of delicious food and Lao Wang's seriousness in cooking, which also shows that the main course of the hotel is China home cooking.
There is a kind of happiness, called enjoying the delicacy of every kind of food.
Little shanghai Restaurant is a restaurant run by Lao Wang. Lao Wang cooks, grandma serves, and familiar customers talk while eating.
A warm little restaurant, one day, "broke into" a salesman in a shopping mall and persuaded Lao Wang to open a branch in the shopping mall. Lao Wang, who advocates taking care of customers personally, naturally disagrees, and Yamashita's son certainly hasn't given up. If the development of the story is that Lao Wang is finally moved by the sincerity of the salesman, then the following plot is somewhat old-fashioned and hopeless. This movie is unique, not from your son's hard work at the foot of the mountain, but from your son because she likes food.
Whether it is snowing or cold, your son will always be there at the same time and in the same seat. At present, food is not for living or working. Whether it is the same food or different food, your son is always intoxicated with the delicious food in front of him, as if it were the first time to eat such delicious food.
Without lines and narration, the picture is simple, and time seems to slow down or even freeze with my son's chopsticks and plates. The film captures the satisfaction and happiness of the characters at the moment of tasting the food, and vividly shows the delicacy of the food through the actions and modality of the characters. At that moment, apart from admiring how tempting the food is, did you, like me, think about how long you haven't really tasted home cooking? The pace is getting faster and faster. People born in modern cities enjoy the convenience of the city, and the food from far and near is within reach. But have you eaten with your heart? We blindly pursue the so-called happiness, eat, drink and be merry, and brag about "eating food", but are we satisfied only with our mouths, stomachs and hearts? We may be a little complacent about cooking a table for ourselves and our families, but will we finish it as a routine task?
The moment the camera passes your son, I believe-there is a kind of happiness called "enjoying food"!
There is a kind of happiness, which comes from cooking every home-cooked dish with your heart.
How to cut garlic? How to chop pork? How to roast beggar chicken? ..... All simple "common sense" may seem simple to Lao Wang, who loves cooking very much, but he is also very particular. Under the lens, Lao Wang carefully cut garlic and green peppers, cutting them quickly and evenly with a knife, and the ingredients became thin and regular under his knife. He told your son that the ingredients must be cut into the same size, and the heat and cooking time can make the food taste just right. In his view, nothing can be sloppy. Your son did it.
The film takes pains to show the details of your son's cooking and his efforts to practice cooking. In the capture and transformation of the lens, it seems that Lao Wang and your son are not cooking, but are seriously pondering a work of art, a work of art with strong timeliness. In their hands, ingredients seem to have different meanings. The blade fell and the sound was crisp, as if to announce the arrival of food. The happiness brought by the unique sense of concentration easily won the audience's mood, just like standing in front of the kitchen chopping board, rhythmically cutting the freshly washed ingredients from the market, calm and happy! The crackling sound in the oil pan, the sauce dripping smoothly on the food in the big spoon, and the lotus leaf beggar chicken exposed after the clods are broken, people can't help chewing this happy delicious food in their mouths-that's not cooking, that's the way and process of being happy every day.
Nowadays, freed from the initial material shortage and the outbreak and flood of material consumption, life aesthetics and daily aesthetics are strongly advocated and reshaped, and even beautified in an empty way, which is inevitably mixed. However, what is it or how does it belong to the category of life aesthetics and daily aesthetics? I think it's a good idea to do every home-cooked dish with your heart! Because it is necessary every day, so common that everyone can touch it, and it is full of pressure and creativity. Adding some ingredients to ordinary daily life, just like adding some carved wine to the crab yellow steamed dumplings in the film, tastes different.
There is a kind of warmth, which comes from the emotional temperature.
The smell of happiness also reminds me of la la land I watched not long ago. These two films have one thing in common-the warmth of emotion makes up for the lack of reality, and the protagonist gets some "compensation" from it. This feeling is the deep feeling in the love and happiness of the city of love and joy. Your son lost his husband at the foot of the mountain, and returned to his father's place after being hospitalized for more than a year because of "consciousness disorder", and often missed his father as a chef; After his wife and daughter died of flu, Lao Wang was invited to come to Japan from Shaoxing, and later opened the "little shanghai Hotel". Therefore, from another perspective, food and cooking are like an opportunity to lead the "father and daughter" of foreign descent to meet and know each other, encourage each other and help each other, and "regain" the "family relationship" between father and daughter that has long disappeared in their respective lives. In Shaoxing, Lao Wang said to the villagers, "(Your son at the foot of the mountain) is my daughter, my proud daughter." The next day, when your son learned this sentence from the translator, his face was filled with joy and happiness. At this point, the relationship between master and apprentice is clearly the relationship between father and daughter, and the missing affection is back, which is touching.
In the film, in addition to the main line of Lao Wang and your son under the mountain, other people's events also make the film always full of warmth. Families and young people who have delivered food for three generations have supervised Ueda Kazuyoshi, who has difficulties in life, encouraged his mother's Kiko, the old folks in Shaoxing, the grandmother and old customers of small restaurants, and of course, the president. From the blue flame at the beginning of the film, to your son getting up in the middle of the night for the first time to cook, until finally Lao Wang cooked again, a simple plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes connected in series, bringing all the warmth. In this warmth, everyone's life seems to have hope. Happiness and happiness are so simple and warm. Even in the end, what I remember is that the fragrance of happiness can be just a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes!