La’Raye Francisco
April 26, 2020
Reel Food and World Cinema
Big Nights

Primo and Secundo are two Italian immigrant brothers who moved to American to reach their ultimate goal, which was to have the “American Dream.” The two brothers own a restaurant, called Paradise. Their restaurant serves Italian cuisine. The younger brother, Secundo, is the restaurant manager and the older brother, Primo, is the head chef.
Primo is deeply influenced by his culture at home. Primo only cooks traditional Italian food and he does not stray from it. For example, a customer orders a dish called ‘Rosotto’ but asks for spaghetti and meatballs on the side. When he was told, he refused to do so. Secundp also refused, at first claiming they did not go with the dish, but eventually gave in to the customer.
 Secondo believed he can achieve success and live his dream of comfort with the help of Primo’s cooking. Secondo wants it all, the flashy car, the girl, the money, and the success. He believes in order to achieve this dream, he has to get his restaurant back on track. Primo seems to be uninterested in the things that Secundo is interested in.  Because of their lack of customers, Secundo knows they must stray from their traditional Italian cuisine. The customers want what they believe is traditional Italian cuisine, like spaghetti and meatballs. While apparently, according to Primo, is no such thing in traditional Italian cuisine.
 The relationship between the two brothers are a little strained. Primo wants to teach his customers the correct way to eat Italian food. He does not want to Americanize his food. While Secundo wants to heed to his customers wants to gain and keep customers to keep their restaurant afloat. Primo wants to go back to Italy, knowing the restaurant their dream is done with. They can no longer keep their restaurant open due to financial issues. Despite all of Secundo’s hard work to keep it open, he is failing.

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