The Road Home

The Road Home is a movie that focuses on a lot of symbolism. This movie was very interesting to me based on the symbolism, the symbolism that stood out to me the most was the food in the movie. Food has a lot of different characteristics that show what it stands for such as, its warm, comforting, takes time to make, brings people together, you have to pay attention to it while cooking, and it takes time and effort to make. Food symbolizes the relationship between Di and Luo. The relationship between them initially revolved around food when he first came to the town. The food was a deep focus in the movie when she would cook for the men working on the school making all of her best dishes in hopes that the school teacher would pick her dish to eat. Much like the food their relationship took time and effort to perfect and ultimately their love brought a lot of people together at the school teachers funeral. This movie had a lot of the symbolism in it but this was the symbolism that stuck out the most to me.