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Article: Focusing the familiar in Ang Lee's Eat, Drink, Man, Woman.
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- East-West Connections
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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The Master said, "Focusing the familiar affairs of the day is a task of the highest order. It is rare among the common people to be able to sustain it for long."
Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman a 1994 movie about a contemporary Taiwanese family s struggle to maintain itself and its traditions in a modern Asia rapidly moving toward Westernization. Tao Chu is a master chef at a large hotel restaurant in Taipei. He is widely recognized as one of the finest chefs in Taiwan and according to an associate is considered a national treasure. He is the widowed father of three grown daughters. The eldest daughter, Jia-Jen, is a mid-thirties Chemistry teacher at a high school. ...
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