Julie and Julia and me!
No, it isn’t a review. It’s a desperate call to all woman to
watch this movie and feel good… It is an absolute inspiration on woman’s day
2014 as I chose to watch the movie coincidentally.
I was only looking to cover all of Meryl Streep’s works and
just stumbled upon this and like most of her movies, it has been perfect!
A Californian, from Pasadena, ‘Julia child’ is played by Streep,
in an irritating fluty pitch and womanishly doting and loud and lovely poise…
and guess what? No one wanted to marry her! No big surprise and finally when
she is happily married to a man who respects her and loves her for who she is,
she is more restless…Life’s gotta make sense…making hats, dancing, partying, buying
a dress…do you think make a woman happy?
In sheer delight I discovered that this is a fearless woman
so comfortable in her skin, extremely tall, dint marry the guy her dad wanted
her to, ran to China, living against the then Government post world war 2...”no
compromise” seems to be her theme…
In Julia’s own words, I don’t think any other woman would
shop for veggies with the same passion as buying a dress…she was making a point
way back in the 19th century. She says this smelling some veggie
leaves…so beautifully played my Meryl….you forget she’s acting…isn’t that the
point?
“The only real stumbling
block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell
attitude.”
― Julia Child
― Julia Child
This movie talks about two real life stories: Julia child-
an empowering woman and a revolutionary cook and her journey where in her words
she says… “You should never apologize
at the table. People will think, ‘Yes, it’s really not so good….;) ;)
many years later a Govt servant, stressed and dissatisfied
with her job, struggling with an almost imaginary writing career wants to
escape from the hulla bulla of the whole scenario and finds she hasn't been more passionate about anything but 'food'…after tiring
days and bad times…she decides she wants to utilize this cookbook she stole
from her mom…I mean let’s face it, one of the best memories from childhood are
through food. That granny’s recipe, that aunt’s pickle or dessert and that only
uncle who cooks and he is deliberately good, lucky aunt. This one decision
turned Julie Powells career and also re-emerged her as an author…all she
decided was “to cook”!
What is it with food we so connect? Family holidays and lazy
afternoons with brunches stretching into snacks and a rainy evening with hot
beverages into an early night with a book and frozen dessert through midnight? Oh
ask me I have all the variety of packages and they all have one thing in
common…food….and food isn’t just food…its culture, people, vegetables, dishes, graters,
special peelers, non-stick pans, kitchen experiments, smart leftovers, Tupper
wear, vintage crockery, candle lights, table cloths, meat, dressing, cheap but
best groceries, spices from all over the world, that small bargain as you get
tomatoes from 12rs to 10 and as you dice them, you get this feeling of a well-deserved
deal, then the brewing, the baking or the stuffing, all the time and patience
and like Julie says after a bad day, you just know that when you add chocolate
to eggs and cream, it’s going to taste great…infact heavenly…!!!
The entire movie runs with this tinge of Paris, French
cooking so important and necessary and a coveted gift for “American woman
without servants” as child initially plans to name it…
Alternately compared with Julies life, the woman’s frustration
and the famous retreat to cooking and blogging….especially when she sees her
friends progress in career…. Taking on from Julia child was Julies blog…365
days, 524 recipes….cook them, eat them, report them, review them, if you burn
them….simple…do it all over again! These woman had major pit falls but rose…just
dusted themselves and rose…The scary mid age syndrome…we all fear..ahhh what
not, this movie slaps life in face but makes you wanna live it!
Food at its best, recipes that are dinner table material,
tips that changed lives, at a time when the internet wasn’t so popular from a
woman bold and outrageous and rebellious…with the ever judging society, what
with being childless also…and look at that woman’s insight…when she talks, you
know a deep resounding of a “liver”, a person who loves one thing in life and that
passion guides her, throws her out of bed at 6:30 am to peel potatoes….ahh!
It comes as no wonder that child’s food bible dint find easy
publishers…how do you market a home idea, a way of life, a tradition or
convention passed on from generations as opposed to easy cooking, fast foods,
cooking in 2 minutes or canned, frozen foods…this woman changed Americas eating
style…what fascinated me is this woman did it because she loved to eat, cook
for her husband and never once thought it wasn’t a job good enough for a
woman….she always knew that even years later, this art and science will be
talked, wrote, acted and blogged about….or she just dint care…these are people
and these are things done because the moment required it and whatever else they
did dint fit the puzzle!
“...nothing is too much
trouble if it turns out the way it should.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France
― Julia Child, My Life in France
Two Inspiring woman with self-imposed projects and deadlines,
two very gentleman to support them with stable marriages…one begins to wonder
if food can sustain a marriage so well…after all, maybe? two lives looked upon
generations after…Inspiring…earthy…curvy…ups and downs…not so fancy…not so much
help or support…not sucking it up for a salary…they cooked…they fed…they filled
hearts and stomachs and like Julia child says…
They just felt and
lived…real woman…real woman… <3 o:p="">
Julie powells Blog : http://juliepowell.blogspot.in/
Julia Childs wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Child
