Film review
Question Description
pleace combine the reading material write an review around 350 words
film: The God of Cookery
reading: Below is the reading to accompany our viewing of “The God of Cookery.” These
are excerpts from “The Storehouse of Laughter” (?? Xiao fu) by the well-reputed
Ming-dynasty historian and poet Feng Menglong (1574?1646). The “Storehouse” is
a collection of jokes, and although it was written by a well-respected scholar
like Feng, you will see that the general tone is pretty earthy and graphic in
terms of the depiction of sex and human anatomy. The fact that what might
strike some as crude and vulgar was pretty much mainstream in late imperial
China is in itself a very telling fact and the purpose of the reading is
providing historical context to the kind of humour that we saw in the 1997 “God
of Cookery.” Pay close attention to who is the butt of these jokes, and what it
tells us about traditional Chinese society, and in writing your reviews please
keep in mind the comic narrative devices that struck you as different from what
you are used to.