Eat Drink Man Woman

Eat Drink Man Woman, is a wonderful tale that uses an old man's culinary artist to examine his life and his relationship with his three daughters. A widower, Chu through out the movie seems like he is questioning the meaning of life. He begins to show less pleasure for his love of cooking and even worse seems as if he is loosing his sense of taste. His daughter, all three, still live at home and do nothing at all to improve their fathers spirits. The oldest, Jia Jen is a high school teacher whose heart was broken nine years ago by her college boyfriend and seems to show signs of becoming an old maid. The middle oldest, Jia Chien, is a executive at a major airlines and wants to do whatever it takes to move out of her house. The youngest, Jia Ning, is so caught up in her boy craziness that she has no clue of anything else going on. Evan though they all live in the same house, their paths only cross once a week when they have a family dinner on sundays. Nothing ever goes right though because the girls make faces after every dish their father brings out and than they say their "little announcements." The lives of all three daughters is crazy, Jia Jen has developed a secret crush on a fellow teacher, Jia Chien learns of a promotion that will send her to America, and Jia Ning has picked up her friends discarded boyfriend. As the relationships develop there seems to be a surprise at every corner. Jia Jen and Jia Ning end up getting pregnant and move out the house, while Chu decides to sell the house. Jia Chien decides not to take the promotion and becomes the new owner of the house, and as things all seem to get better Chu finally gets his sense of taste back. This movie is so unique because its all about relationships. We have the relationship through family, the relationships of the daughters and their men, and we have Chu's relationship with food. At the end it seems as if everything comes together for nice satisfying ending. The movies strong part has to come from director Ang Lee who just put the movie together perfectly avoiding no gaps of confusion at all. Known mostly for his directing of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Hulk" this oscar winning director and writer shows us what it takes to piece a script like this together. From the appetizer to desert this movie is very delicious!