#03. Uncorked (2020)

 

 

Uncorked(2020)

There are some films about wine like "Sideway", "Bottle Shock" and "Wine Country".
I think this film is not focused on wine, but on people handling wine.

Like the CMS challenge, which was dealt with in the Human Documentary in the Somm series, main character in this film also challenges MS(Master Sommelier), but at the same time get a conflict between his father who want to inherit a barbecue restaurant as a family business.

Actually, I've felt something similar to the situation of he and going through it again recently. 
When I said "I'm going to learn wine" after graduation of high school,
My father thought I just learn a wine as simple hobby, and someday I will inherit the his business.
Mother, "if you have anything you want to do, try your best without regrets." She cheered me up.

 

And I am now working hard on sommelier.

Sommelier is hard but not good paid job that more than you can imagine.
And it's not even stable. If you don't polish your skill and manner and can't get some difference things than other somms, you must be fall behind.
If a hobby becomes a job, it is never happy. I've regretted a few times since I started wine as a job.

My parents knew that, often asked me should take over my father's work recently.
And at the time of this writing, I talked for about three hours four days ago, and I haven't made decision yet
When I turned on Netflix to cool my head, I saw the movie's introduction and looked forward to seeing "Is there an ANSWER in there?"

 

To return, if you ask I've found the answer, is NO.
like emphasizing that making your own decisions in your life, the film doesn't give me the ANSWER. 

People usually think the "Pairing" of red wine and barbeque is good, there may be people who think the "Pairing" of father and son is good, too.

But just as not all of red wines are not matched up with barbecue pairing, it shows that father-son "Pairing" is not always good.
It is not a movie with an impactful movie with fancy CGs or cool action, but it just show us about what we can experience in our daily lives.
It doesn't even have a set ending like as if someone don't know what tasting note after drink wine.

I think this movie title, "Uncorked", has a lot of meaning.
If wine is stuck in a cork, you can't pour the wine and can't taste it.
But if wine is uncorked, you can pour wine if you want, and can taste it.

I think a dream is like a wine in a bottle.
From the main character's point of view, his father's wish-inheriting the restaurant as family business- becomes a cork that stuck his dream.
"Uncorked" means resolve the conflict between the father and the protagonist, I think.
And also it is main character's choice that getting his dream by tilt the bottle and pour his dream out or inheriting the family business in just Uncorked bottle state.

We, too, have what we want, dream, and want to be, but we may be stucked by "Cork", which is a real problem that individuals we have.
I think it's up to us to make a "Uncorked", and whether to tilt it or leave it as it is.
 

If you have a chance, how about open a bottle of table wine watching it?