"Nowadays, it's really rare for women's films to tell stories honestly." The New York Times commented on the film Julie and Julia.
It's true. The two ordinary women described in this movie have found fun in delicious food and found their true selves. The whole movie is relaxed and enjoyable, which makes people memorable.
The role played by Aunt Mei is Julie, an American woman who lives in France. She loves good food and starts to learn how to cook. Because of her unique talent and her unyielding attitude, she even stood out in a class full of men and published "Mastering the Art of Cooking French Cuisine".
many years later, it was this book that ignited the heart of another young girl named Julia, who was called a dull and monotonous job. By chance, she found this book, and she began to challenge herself. She planned to finish cooking food according to the recipes in the book in one year and share her experience on her blog, which actually attracted the attention of many fans.
The whole movie is interspersed with two timelines, which seems to be a distant echo of two time and space. Although the ages are different, women's moods are similar.
They yearn for something different in their lives. Food has become the kindling to light up their hearts, so they have become attached to each other and become one in different time and space.
Julia in the film spent a period of mediocrity and couldn't find her true self. She had hoped to be a writer, but she didn't finish any books.
In such a time, a person's heart is barren, and she seems to have ideals and things she wants to do too much, but she can't grasp the direction. At this time, the idol is a beam of light. She made a plan for herself, and she must finish 524 dishes in the idol book in one year, and share every bit of experience on her blog.
during the period, my mother objected, thinking it was purely futile. At the beginning, the husband also felt that his wife forced him to be too tired. He deeply loved his wife, looked at her so enthusiastically and understood her. When she couldn't hold on, he accompanied her to watch Julie's TV program to cheer her up. The tacit understanding between them is extremely sweet in the film.
Aunt Mei is really the happiest housewife in the play. She and her husband enjoy delicious food. Although they are not young couples, they are still as beautiful as love.
She is like a naughty child, and she is free to choose what she likes. Enthusiastic and chattering every day, it is also tinkling in the kitchen.
But in class, her indomitable spirit is full of Mei Yi's temperament. If the onions can't be cut well, she cuts them one by one at home, and the onions that are pushed like hills choke her eyes. Finally, I simply compared the male students who looked down on her. The way she seriously discusses writing books with her female companions and typing recipes word by word on a typewriter is also an indomitable gesture.
she's frank, free and enthusiastic, so bright that people can't open their eyes.
At the end of the film, although Julie doesn't accept Julia's behavior, she is enough, and her idol gives her enough light.