Thanksgiving

First of all i thought the movie “what's cooking” was a really good movie. I loved the fact that it was very diverse and it included many different cultural backgrounds. With that being said because of all the different cultures that are within the film they did a very good job at showing the differences between each household. For example in the hispanic house a lot of the walls were orange and it just had a hispanic feel to it. The way they would compare and contrast is that they would place exactly what's happening in each scene side by side. When one family was making the turkey all the families were making the turkey and you saw the different ways they made their food. The asian family put sriracha sauce on their turkey. They also showed the differences in how the food was prepared. In the black household the yams were made in more of a casserole style. Where as in the hispanic family the yams were baked. They also prepared the mashed potatoes differently. Some families crushed them with their hands other families blended them. Another just cut them up or even mashed them with an actual masher. They also showed the difference by the food and utensils they were actually using at the table. For instance the asian family was not using a fork and a knife at the table. They were using chopsticks. The food that was on the table was actually very diverse. For desert the hispanic family had flan and dulce de leche. The black family had blueberry pie. The asian family had noodles on their table when the black family was having mac and cheese on their plates. The film did find ways to throw curveballs at the audience because of the turkey being burnt they ended up eating fried chicken. The black family did not eat and prepare typical food that you would see in a black household and the grandmother mentions this multiple times within the food. My favorite part of the movie was at the end when they revealed that all of the houses were on the same block as each other. I thought that was the best part of the movie.