In the past week I watched both Eat, Drink, Man, Woman and Tortilla Soup. They are basically the exact same movie, EDMW being the original by Ang Lee. EDMW is set in Taiwan with a Taiwanese family. Tortilla Soup was based on Ang Lee's screenplay, but set in Los Angeles with a Mexican-American family. I did like EDMW better, though both films were quite good. Tortilla Soup was more "Americany" with more talk about feeeeeeeelings and finding oneself. Still a strong picture, but it missed some of the intensity of the original.

It was interesting to see them so close together.