Fried Green Tomatoes Film Analysis

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Fried Green Tomatoes Film Analysis The film Fried Green Tomatoes is a complex story leaving a number of its realities unsaid. Most movie reviews I read had something to say about it’s indirect approach. This line, from online review titled “As Good As It Gets” off of IMDB, sums it up well and also touches on one of my main points saying ”There are moments of heartbreaking and tender subtlety when Thomas Newman…expresses human feeling more fluently than the spoken word." Though untouched by dialog, the film allows the audience to easily grasp the complexity of character’s relationships, the film’s underlying meanings, and truths through metaphors and symbolism. The metaphorical use of food in this film occurs frequently, suggesting significance. In Fried Green Tomatoes emotional relationships and underlying meanings and truths are revealed, not directly, but through the movie's metaphorical and symbolic use of food. Starting off, the first example I noticed from the movie was the use of food expressing emotional insight into the character of Evelyn. Her habitual candy bar consumption is a method she uses to coup with her failing marriage, insecurities of growing old, and general dissatisfaction with life. This next line comes from an online review written by Janet Maslin, titled “Fried Green Tomatoes”, found on the NYT website explaining “The film's overstatement is such that Evelyn has to appear in flowered frocks and stiff hairdos, nibbling candy bars and gazing longingly at her equally rotund husband, to establish the fact that she is unhappy.” This line re emphasizes how Evelyn’s eating habits suggest her current unhappy state. In the movie she explains that she eats because she’s sad, and she’s sad because she eats. Her husband’s indifference to their marriage validates her insecurities, which further fuels the unfortunate cycle. This is a clear

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