Blog 8

The two movies Eat Drink Man Woman and Tortilla soup both enforce a rule that the family sits down to eat dinner together every Sunday. Eat Drink Man is a Chinese film and Tortilla soup is based on a Latino family. Both films have a similar opening sequence showing the fathers of the families cooking food for Sunday dinner than the rest of the family members going about their lives.  The ending of the movies show the daughters being pregnant and one of them deciding not to go abroad. In tortilla soup you can't tell where the film is located right away but in Eat Drink Man Woman you can tell it takes place in a Chinese theme right away. In both films the daughters move in with their boyfriends and both the middle children decide to quit their jobs to open up a restaurant. The oldest daughters of the families both find love with coworkers of theirs. The main differences in the films is the food they cook. In Tortilla soup they grill the food they cook unlike in Eat Drink Man Woman where they fry and steam the food. The films are really similar and the storyline is the same in both films. The only difference between the films is the locations in which they take place and the characters.