Currently, the movie Beef (Discord) is making global audiences love because of its quality content, ingenious acting and the deep, multi-layered message it brings. Besides the appearance of Hong Dao, the film still has many other hidden details that attract Vietnamese viewers, demonstrating the inherent level of the rising studio A24.
Sour soup
Vietnamese audiences definitely come Beef most because of Hong Dao and the sour soup at the beginning of episode 8. However, this detail has greater significance than just a Vietnamese cultural element. The bowl of sour soup was placed between the “line” between Amy and her parents. That is the generation gap, the thought and the bowl of sour soup act as a bold, sour and sweet dish to help relieve all the senses, trying to pull Amy and her parents together.
In the end, however, a bowl of sour soup couldn’t heal Amy’s family. The biggest reason is because her family never talks about their problems, and only when sitting at the dinner table do they “vent” their anger and dissatisfaction about the other – the result, not the other. right problem. Because as the audience can see, Amy took the first mint to eat, showing that she has experienced the “taste” of life for too long.
First car crash scene
The collision scene in episode 1 of Beef Not only was it the beginning of Amy and Danny’s feud, but it also signaled that neither of them could win. It all happened based on a misunderstanding, the anger that needed to be vented to someone of both.
Because there was so much stuff in the back seat, Danny didn’t see Amy get out of the car, and Amy thought Danny was a normal “reckless” driver. She blamed him, and he blamed her when no one else was at fault. In addition, the difference in circumstances at a glance also pushes the feud to rise, when in the eyes of Danny Amy is a luxury car driver, rich, so he considers the sky fair, and Danny is no different from a bunch of idiots, enemies in life. Amy’s eyes.
Clothes
Team Beef subtly designed Danny and Amy’s contrasting clothing. It is easy to see that Amy is a person with stylish clothes, and often changes her hairstyle due to the pressure to follow trends to succeed. In contrast, Danny’s clothes are somewhat arbitrary, messy due to a difficult life, leaving him with no time for himself.
However, in the last episode, both were dressed in white. Like the two crows, Danny and Amy seem to have become the white crane, helping each other to return to their purest forms, and finally washing away all the resentment and anger inside.
Crows
In Korean culture and the general public, crows are a sign of bad luck. The first time Amy went to Jordan’s house, Amy encountered a crow, and Jordan later lost his life. The same thing almost happened to Danny – who likes to prune trees while “playing” with crows.
In addition, the crow also reminds the Korean audience of the expression “If a crow walks like a crane, his leg will be broken”, which means only those who try to become someone else by imitating, doing too much will receive a bitter ending. This goes for Danny, who is always trying to “imitate” Isaac or Edwin to become a leader, or Amy who is always trying too hard to maintain a fake image of integrity, all for the sake of livelihood.
Tattoo
In the last episode of Beef, the audience finally knows what Amy’s tattoo means. Amy explains that this is the number 22, from the book Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. She further explained that the book’s title was originally Catch-18, but the book’s editor arbitrarily changed it to 22 for no reason. Catch-22 is also an English slang term for a “dilemma”, a situation in which the outcome of the problem cannot happen, because the problem itself is the problem.
It was like Amy and Danny, when both kept “cat and mouse” together, harming each other and hindering each other’s rise. Only when realizing that I am like you, you are like me, that the main couple of Beef can only get out of his own “catch-22” case.
Vanilla
Amy and her husband George had a heated argument at the exhibition, and also there the female lead Beef pointed out the biggest problem in the marriage is the “sex” of both. When asked by George, she commented on it with the word “vanilla”, much to George’s disappointment.
In American slang, “vanilla” is used to describe boring sex, which only meets the standards of conception, not pleasure. Because there is no emotion when being intimate with her husband, Amy sinks deeper into the “fading crisis” that she has to go through, leading to many regrettable mistakes.
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