Eat Drink Man Woman, 1994
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飲食男女 / Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) dir. Ang Lee
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pushya + eat drink man woman (1994)
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nakshatras as movies i love
Pushya asks the perennial question; are you and your loved ones nourished? Although pushya placements tend to have a proclivity towards a full pantry, this also refers to emotional nourishment.
Represented by a cow, when I think about this Cancerian nakshatra, that one famous line jumps out at me, I love you. I want us both to eat well. Although the father in this movie comes to life in the kitchen, he can be distant and cold outside of it, and his daughters also struggle with emotional repression. The eldest child, filled with a muffled feeling of resentment for not becoming her father's heir as a chef, is the most combative with him at the start of the movie. But as watch, we come to learn how she resembles him the most, expressing her love using food, wanting the best for the people in her life, but sometimes just lacking the words to express it.
Although Pushya is known as a passive and calm sign, they can often experience communication troubles with those who require words of affirmation. A cliche of the Pushya parent is one that apologizes by cutting up fruit or buying a beloved snack. Well-intentioned and sweet, but when others need verbalized intentions, it can cause a great deal of grief.
Additionally, Pushyami's deity being Brihaspati lends to an exchange of learning becoming a common theme in their lives. Pushyas are often known as the "well-behaved student" as children, especially with teachers they hold high respect for. A formal teacher-student dynamic comes very naturally to them, so when they're refused knowledge or treated unfairly, it wounds them deeply. Food and love anchor this film's narratives. Eat, drink, man, woman. They keep the world spinning.
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