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[Anonymous]

The movie “Eat Drink Man Woman” is a film directed by Ang Lee released on 1994. The film received the Asia Pacific Film Festival Award for Best Film, and in 1995 it received an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
The title of the movie is what the director Ang Lee wanted to present in this movie. “ Eat and Drink “are the basic human desire , “man and woman” are referring the pleasure sexual , and these are accepted as nature.
The story back ground is in 1990’s Taipei, Taiwan. Mr. Chu the father, a widow, with his three daughters. Mr. Chu is a master Chinese chief and his three daughters each of them has challenged the any narrow definition of traditional Chinese culture.
Each Sunday Mr. Chu makes a glorious banquet for his daughters, but the dinner table is also the family forum, or perhaps “torture chamber,” to which each daughter brings “announcements” as they negotiate the transition from traditional “father knows best” style to a new tradition which encompasses old values in new forms. As the story goes, the girls were all have new man and living situations were changed. At the end he father surprised wants to marry a young girl.
This is the movie really point out how the Chinese react the different between traditional and current world’s situation and value. What is not changed is the nature of human been. I believe this is not only referring Taiwanese in the 90’s but also similar situation for Chinese in today.
The information from this movie will help me do the project in my lesson plan how Asia in today is different to the old days.