Food is amazing! It keeps us happy and it is there for us for every seconds of life. Well not really, maybe I exaggerated myself, because not everyone gets food whenever they want. But food is a necessity of life; everyone needs it, wants it and it is probably the best thing in this world. Food attracts to us, everyone loves food. David Gelb’s film named Jiro Dreams of Sushi, shows the life of a famous sushi chef named Jiro Ono through various high definition pictures of food. Agnes Varda’s film The Gleaners and I show the action of gleaning leftover food, which all started from one famous painting by Jean-Francois Millet in 1867. Both of these movies are documentaries based upon real life situations. These foods based films are known to be
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Viewers are able to see the exaggerated point of view of the filmmaker. The narrator of this film might be the director himself, but we are not completely sure on that. The 85-year-old chef, Jiro Ono, is portrayed as the “god of sushi” and everyone must visit his restaurant named Sukiyabashi Jiro, because they make the best sushi in the world. But the question is, is Jiro Ono really the best sushi chef in the world? This documentary included high definition pictures of all types of sushi and all the ingredients along with amazing and calm music which attracts viewers, the most. The film contains of a Japanese critic, the patient workers, an apprentice, dealers of the ingredients such as fish and rice and the customers. Everyone treats Jiro with so much respect; you won’t see a character in the film, talking against him expressing their own feelings. Everyone just does what Jiro commands them to do. The film starts off with a few facts about the food sushi, such as how it used to be a street food, until the Europeans basically made it so valuable. Continuing on next, Jiros restaurant is not such a nice place from the outside and people reserve their seats from a year before for the REALLY EXPENSIVE food. We get to learn a bit about his life, and how he had a rough life trying to build his future. Jiro’s father died when he was a younger child and he basically …show more content…
Jiro Dreams of Sushi received less rotten tomatoes compared to The Gleaners and I. Jiro Dreams of Sushi received a 7.9 out of 10 ratings for IMDb, The Gleaners and I received 7.6 out of 10 ratings. On Rotten Tomatoes, While Jiro Dreams of Sushi has a 99% and The Gleaners and I have a 92% rating. It is not surprising to see that The Gleaners and I have a slightly lower rating than Jiro Dreams of Sushi. On the other hand, Jiro Dreams of Sushi has a hidden narrator interviewing Jiro and speaking about him; the director of The Gleaners and I present herself as the narrator who interviews random
Viewers are able to see the exaggerated point of view of the filmmaker. The narrator of this film might be the director himself, but we are not completely sure on that. The 85-year-old chef, Jiro Ono, is portrayed as the “god of sushi” and everyone must visit his restaurant named Sukiyabashi Jiro, because they make the best sushi in the world. But the question is, is Jiro Ono really the best sushi chef in the world? This documentary included high definition pictures of all types of sushi and all the ingredients along with amazing and calm music which attracts viewers, the most. The film contains of a Japanese critic, the patient workers, an apprentice, dealers of the ingredients such as fish and rice and the customers. Everyone treats Jiro with so much respect; you won’t see a character in the film, talking against him expressing their own feelings. Everyone just does what Jiro commands them to do. The film starts off with a few facts about the food sushi, such as how it used to be a street food, until the Europeans basically made it so valuable. Continuing on next, Jiros restaurant is not such a nice place from the outside and people reserve their seats from a year before for the REALLY EXPENSIVE food. We get to learn a bit about his life, and how he had a rough life trying to build his future. Jiro’s father died when he was a younger child and he basically …show more content…
Jiro Dreams of Sushi received less rotten tomatoes compared to The Gleaners and I. Jiro Dreams of Sushi received a 7.9 out of 10 ratings for IMDb, The Gleaners and I received 7.6 out of 10 ratings. On Rotten Tomatoes, While Jiro Dreams of Sushi has a 99% and The Gleaners and I have a 92% rating. It is not surprising to see that The Gleaners and I have a slightly lower rating than Jiro Dreams of Sushi. On the other hand, Jiro Dreams of Sushi has a hidden narrator interviewing Jiro and speaking about him; the director of The Gleaners and I present herself as the narrator who interviews random