Spend 4 hours cooking a big meal.
You can eat a bowl of delicious noodles in 4 minutes.
It's also comforting.
-"Flavor World"
I believe that many friends who pay attention to film and television have been screened by a food documentary called "Flavor World" these days.
A food documentary can play the role of calling the media and watching all kinds of movies and TV plays. The last time was China on the Tip of the Tongue.
I remember when I was a member of many overseas hungry parties, I could only watch TV through the screen and drool. Drooling is not the most annoying thing, but the most difficult thing is the thinking about hometown brought by these food documentaries.
Chen Xiaoqing and his team pushed the food documentary to us last time, but this time it was them. Sure enough, on the road of shooting delicious food, they went further and further.
The beauty of food
Last week, many self-media comments on "Flavor World" were that they could play five stars with their eyes closed.
Although I also thought the first episode was very good, I decided to watch another episode and evaluate it out of an anti-(anti-) anti-(anti-) mentality that I didn't know where I was. According to many years' experience in watching movies, many works that are attractive at first have actually condensed all the essence from the beginning in order to create momentum and attract the audience.
After watching the second episode, I hope that "Flavor House" will not become like this.
It may be that the scene presented in the first episode is too grand, and the second episode looks ordinary after returning home, and even the story is a bit too lengthy, losing the original intention of cooking.
Why must there be a story behind food? Isn't food without stories delicious?
After watching two episodes, I think I can give it four and a half stars for the time being. If there is only one word to describe it, it is "beauty"? ——? Every frame can be the beauty of a screensaver.
Bring the beauty of food to the extreme and let the beauty of life be reflected here. If you want to say one of its characteristics, you don't have to describe it with overwhelming feelings, but you should love it.
Self-cultivation of eating goods
This world is not worth it, but I just love the depth of this world. Why are you asking me? Probably because my mouth often drools.
As the general director, Chen Xiaoqing is such a foodie who loves life. I don't know much about him, except that he went to see Tao's program Round Table.
In this chat show, Chen Xiaoqing is like a wise and kind elder, a gentle and lovely friend, and more like an observer of life.
Until you see the following story? From then on, he was just a dedicated and interesting gourmet in my eyes.
He not only loves eating, but also loves to study eating. He can learn all kinds of stories about people who ate vegetables in the Republic of China. Whether it is Shen Congwen, Acheng Wang Zengqi, or even "Suiyuan Food List", he often mentions it.
It's hard for me to imagine that a person would love food to such an extent and concentrate on it. He does not love life.
Although he likes food, he also likes documentaries. He once mentioned it in an interview. I don't remember the details, but the general idea is that if a person really loves something, he will "forget all about eating and sleeping, enjoy it and forget his worries, and never know that his old age is coming." Do one thing to the extreme, then no matter what the outside voice is, you will always be worthy of yourself.
In this Chen Xiaoqing, it is difficult to shoot without temperature.
The mountains and rivers remain the same, and the flavor does not change.
Sure enough, every shot of this documentary is a love and awe of life and nature.
The gift of nature blooms in different colors in the hands of hard-working life.
This film seems to have something in common with the tip of the tongue, but it has changed a lot.
I think the similarity is probably that the theme seems to be somewhat the same, and the recording and editing techniques are similar. The difference may be the relatively external content of shooting skills and humanistic care.
If we want to talk about shortcomings, it is not entirely without them. The whole documentary has a feeling of beauty and emptiness. After reading it, I didn't think about it, only the silhouette of food was left in my mind.
Of course, if the director's own purpose is to record food and let people know more about it, then the film has accomplished its task well.
The first episode is called "Between Mountains and Seas", and the crew really went from west to east, from south to north, looking for food across mountains and seas, with footprints all over Xinjiang, Anhui, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Taiwan Province Province, and even the Netherlands, Spain and other food birthplaces.
In addition to food, there are countless landscapes in the whole picture. No wonder many people say that this is not only a documentary about food, but also a documentary about natural scenery figures.
The application of microscope head and various slow-motion lenses presents the whole natural change to us completely.
The second episode is called "Rooting Underground", and the overall conception and eating goods are much worse than the first episode. After watching the second episode, the impression in my mind is weaker than that in the first episode last week.
I only remember a group of people standing together laughing and speaking dialects, just like a propaganda film.
It's like a promo of food, not a documentary of food.
Perhaps the director of this episode still needs to practice the art of lens language, and always feels that the story seems to have not been finished and the food has not been finished. There are too many things to present and too many things to grasp.
Of course, because of the lens language, many ordinary authentic foods have become advanced; Combined with complex technology, the whole production process is presented in a scientific and technological way.
This way of shooting grounded food seems to give me a higher perspective than the middle class. Are all these foods the same in the eyes of people who can only eat these things every day?
This middle-class perspective is actually very suitable for the current audience, and it seems that there is a threshold for middle-class appreciation.
There is an analogy on Douban, which I think is very accurate: Wang Wei's pastoral poems are both famous, but Wang Wei's perspective is more like an aristocratic class's experience of working life; Tao Yuanming's experience of rural life after he really worked.
The quality of poetry is determined by the reader. Similarly, whether a food documentary is good or not should be judged by the audience.
Good-looking is definitely good-looking, but it lacks the rough and lively fireworks smell. All emotions are like acting, and the beauty is not real enough.
As a diner, I just want to pass on and carry forward the delicious food as said at the end of the first episode.
The mountains and rivers remain the same, and the flavor does not change.