Buy Cheap DVDs: Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) (DVD 2002) - In Stock On 26, December 2007 December 26, 2007
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If you’re willing to read subtitles, Cheap DVD: Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) (DVD 2002) is an excellent foreign film. This movie is 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.
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) (DVD 2002)
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Ang Lee gives us insight into this family from the perspective of how love and life and humanity can be compared to eating and drinking. The soundtrack is amazing, the scenery is magnificent and the realness of it all transport you in, so that you can almost smell the food cooking. I would have killed to be on that set to just sample all those dishes!
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