" The Lonely Gourmet " and "Late Night Diner" are also high-scoring TV series focusing on food. They all share the common theme of comforting loneliness with delicious food. But there are also big differences.
The difference between these two dramas is that the former is about a person walking through the streets and alleys looking for food, while the latter is about various people communicating briefly in a late-night canteen and then returning to the sea. story.
For the entire eight seasons of "The Lonely Gourmet", it only recorded the figure of Uncle Wulang, a foodie who worked seriously.
Watching Uncle Wu Lang walking alone in the streets and alleys in search of food, and enjoying the food with concentration, you will not see any shadow or expression related to loneliness in this TV series. Some are persistent and obsessed with food. And this obsession is more of a respect and appreciation for food.
Many people will find it strange, why can one person attract so many people to watch when he is eating?
is actually not difficult to understand. If you look at how popular mukbang is now, you will understand how deeply humans have a deep love and obsession with eating. Enjoying food is a nourishing and healing process, so seeing food and watching others enjoying food also have a healing effect.
"The Lonely Gourmet" is no less than a mukbang, and it is more tender and healing than some fake mukbangs. We can think back to this, when we are eating alone, do we all like to watch dramas while eating? So can mukbang, which has both plot and food, make a lonely heart sinking in a sea of thousands of people feel less lonely?
There is a saying in our country that “food is the first priority for the people”. The meaning of busy life is to enjoy this delicious food in your mouth leisurely every day.
Feeling the sweetness of the food fills your exhausted stomach, it also drives away the feeling of loneliness.
If there is something important in life that requires full commitment, then the moment of enjoying delicious food is one of the beautiful events that cannot be lived up to.
If "The Lonely Gourmet" can drive away thousands of loneliness simply by using food, or treat food as a very important thing in life. While living up to the gift of delicious food, has unknowingly healed the loneliness deep in people's hearts under the visual impact of the "color, aroma and taste" of the food.
Then the healing atmosphere of "Late Night Diner" is even more obvious .
In a small alley somewhere in the bustling city late at night, there is a small restaurant open late at night, intertwined with the stories of various customers.
They brought their own stories with them, and while enjoying the delicious food in the late-night cafeteria from unfamiliarity to familiarity in the small restaurant, they also shared the unspeakable hard work and fatigue during the day, and the depression they experienced, in a relaxing atmosphere. Slowly share some of the trivial sadness and ups and downs encountered in their respective lives.
"Late Night Canteen" is more like a station for the soul to rest temporarily. What the boss of cooks is not just a late-night meal, but more like a psychological tree hole clinic using food as a prop. It provides a resting place to temporarily isolate reality for people who are wandering around late at night and are tired.
Eating to satisfy one's hunger is no longer a simple purpose. Treatment and temporary shorting are.
And what we are watching is not just a food drama. What you see is a kind of resonance that can express your inner feelings.
If there was such a late-night canteen in reality, there would be no spikes in the fireworks, and it would be a warm and comfortable place for people to relieve their blocked emotions. I think many similar people will choose to enter this small haven to temporarily escape the fatigue of life.
These two dramas are based on the most common life scenes in daily life. There are no ups and downs, love, hate, or hatred.
The ordinary and ordinary bits and pieces are like the ordinary years that I am going through around me.The ordinary and real atmosphere of fireworks fills the entire screen, but similar bits and pieces of life blend into the hearts of everyone watching the drama like water blending into the sea.
