If you like movies about cooking, where you can actually taste and hear the food sizzling; excellent script writing, intense acting and general dad-son feel good movies, you will like Chef.
Chef is about a renowned chef working in a five star restaurant who based on his reputation should be at the top of his game. But after a Twitter run-in with a food critic, his whole world blows up in his face when he innocently and angrily responds to the tweet publicly about the lack of creativity in his menu. He quits his job and gets back his passion – inspired cooking.
And there’s lots of footage of food in the film. A lot. By the time the movie ends you will be craving an authentic Cuban sandwich. Evidently, the bread must be slightly toasted brown helped by the gobs of butter heaped on top. Yum. What makes it even better is all that cuisine tasting is accompanied by a constant barge of blues, urban Latino and rocking oldies. You can’t sit still. And neither does he as he goes across the country in pursuit of his dream.
A Netflick junkie, I have to admit I never know what I am going to get when I get my next delivery in my 150+ queue. I picked something light to speed up my five hour plane ride to LA. Many movies are duds. Few are exceptional. Some are light. Some are mindless. Some are funny. Some are monotonous. Every now and then one comes along that seems like it is speaking to your very soul.
Chef was one of those for me. Though there were many motifs in this flick, the one that really called me was to not settle for less than what you really desire. Yeah. We’ve heard this platitude over and over. But when one catches you at the right time in your life, it drives home the message. We become alive when we are fueled by passion which is the reason we are all here to begin with.
There is so much more creativity, network of liked minded folks, better partners, inspiration, dreams and plans that we often never rise to meet. What’s ahead could be better than what is behind. If we only let ourselves rendez vous with that belief, than we become alive again. And if something like a movie speaks to you, then you can bet your oh, by jolly, that you will be inspired to action. Wisdom comes from within.
Oh, and by the way, I am buying the sound track.
And PS. Don’t ever, ever settle!
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