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Saturday, September 22, 2007
'Baby don't you cry, gonna make a pie, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle. Baby don't be blue, gonna make for you, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle. Gonna make a pie from heaven above, gonna be filled with strawberry love. Baby don't you cry, gonna make a pie, and hold you forever in the middle of my heart.' Every once in awhile, you'd see a movie that tells you about life using food. Things like how you're supposed to feel, what you're supposed to do, and how happy endings are inevitable if only you'd do something about it. In Waitress, Jenna makes wonderful pies with titles like 'Earl Murders Me Because I'm Having An Affair Pie' (You smash blackberries and raspberries into a chocolate crust). She invents a new pie in her head as some sort of catharsis everytime she encounters a situation, and they're always delectable for the customer. And in Stranger Than Fiction, Ana Pascal saves the world with her cookies. It's like taking a step back into a woman's world, away from the high-powered jobs and the need to be accomplished and loved. It's falling back into domestication, the only place where only women, traditionally, have the power, and then taking it back into their hands, and turning it into their place of solace, where everything is under their control and they're free to express themselves. They have unconsciously used a very traditional role that many modern women today express revulsion or indifference towards, as a tool to empower themselves. These women created foods out of love and passion, pouring their dreams and hopes and fears into every pie or cookie they made. If you ever eat a home-made meal or a cake baked from scratch, you have fallen under her spell, because she loves you or hate you with that dish, and whilst you'd never be rid of it, you'd have tasted the world in that dish because you will never have another one exactly like it ever again. Bing! at 10:47 AM | | Blogroll Me!
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i loved stranger than fiction! literary genres and etc =) none of my mates understood it but i had such a good time
Bing, this is a great post! I really enjoyed reading it.
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I know exactly what you mean about women taking power domestically. But I'm not going to dwell on that because I have a lot of contentious thoughts around it. Meanwhile, the thing about food: I am VERY superstitious about food. I do believe that the state of mind as you're eating food has a real effect on how you digest it, and the sorts of karma, one could call it, that you then embody. Whilst I cook food, I often find myself very calm and peaceful, if not in a working-relaxation. When I am eating, I focus on my food and I enjoy every flavour, savour every social moment and generally am happy. I hate it when people eat out of anger. I just can't do it. To me it really is like trying to be angry and be jolly at the very same time - it's very difficult. I never did get to see Stranger Than Fiction - I had hoped to catch it at the cinema but I guess now it'll have to wait until I see it on DVD. :) Yay for blogging! |
I like to put things into
words and then see them string up and let people laugh at them like it's
confetti. Chocolate makes my day and I love trees and rivers and this
makes me seem quite the idiot but really, I'm a silly billy.
