BBC - Feasts (2010)
PDTV | English | MP4 | 832x468 | AVC 1600 Kbps 25.000 fps | AAC 128 Kbps 48.0 khz | 3x59mn | 6x726 MB
Genre: Documentary
A Series in
which food writer and presenter Stefan Gates immerses himself in some of
the most extraordinary feasts and festivals on earth. By joining
ordinary people in these strange and wonderful distillations of their
culture and beliefs, he hopes to gain a revelatory insight into how the
world thinks and feels.
Part 1: India
Stefan makes a journey across India to discover how feasts and
celebration divide - and bring together - a turbulent nation that can be
driven by religious tension and extremes of wealth. He is shocked to
see how much extravagance and social engineering there is in an
expensive showpiece Rajasthani Hindu wedding, yet how little emotion is
actually expressed. These events are spectacular, and the scale is
terrifying for a father of two young daughters. In Kerala, Stefan
experiences the bewildering festival of Onam, a Hindu celebration that
brings this massive state of millions of people together, Hindu and
Christian, rich and poor alike. Over several days he joins almost all of
the entire 32m population in sitting down to exactly the same meal - an
11-portion feast eaten with fingers from a banana leaf. Stefan joins in
the Pulikali, the tiger dance, and is apparently he first westerner
ever to take part. It is the most physically uncomfortable, gruesome day
of his life. He has his body hair shaved off with a dry razor, then
spends five hours being painted with several layers of household gloss
paint, holding on to two sticks to keep his arms outstretched as he
dries out. He is then covered in a sweaty, sticky mask and a pair of
bordello pants, and packed off into the streets to join his team in
dancing like a maniac around the baking-hot streets of the city of
Thrissur for four hours.
Part 2: Japan
Stefan attempts to get under the skin of the traditional Japanese
reserve by joining in some amazing feasts and festivals, a journey which
culminates with Stefan and 10,000 Japanese men wearing nothing but loin
cloths in a drunken rampage at a sacred Shinto temple. He starts his
trip by helping a Shinto priestess carry a six-foot wooden penis around a
suburb of Tokyo, as she bemoans how kids today seem to have lost their
traditional Japanese reserve, before joining the Baby Sumo festival
where parents compete to get their children to cry first, to give them
good luck for the rest of their lives. Finally, he embarks on the most
extraordinary event of his life - the Naked Man festival. He meets up
with Mr Kosaki, a man from the classic Japanese mould who has never told
his wife he loves her, who has forsaken his love of music to become a
salaryman, and whose work consumes his life. He is as different from
Stefan as anyone could hope to be, until his friends arrive and
everything changes. They get wildly drunk, practically naked, and stuff
themselves with sushi. Then those still standing head off on a
terrifying, barrier-wrecking festival that finally allows the Japanese
man to reveal himself as passionate, expressive and loving as anyone. It
is all rooted in centuries of Shinto food-related tradition, but is
really a huge primal scream from men who spend their days unable to
express themselves.
Part 3: Mexico
Stefan goes on a wild emotional and spiritual rollercoaster ride,
starting with a teenage girl's bizarre coming-of-age ceremony and ending
with the Day of the Dead, a cacophonous cross-cultural festival of the
senses during which Mexicans truly believe that their loved ones come
back from the dead for three days every year to spend the day with them.
In Oaxaca, he is dressed up as a dead woman and made to dance like a
lunatic at the head of a procession as it makes its way through town. He
is turned into an emotional wreck at the moment the dead return,
bursting into tears as Dias de los Muertos makes him experience grief
and loss for the first time. But then in the next breath, the family
Stefan is living with teach him to celebrate and laugh at death. They
turn his views on their head, allowing him to embrace and conquer his
fear of death through an extraordinary sensual onslaught of food,
flowers, songs and smells. The sight of the graveyards overflowing with
flowers and mescal-drinking revellers is a truly life-changing
experience.
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