The article blends the philosophy of food with the study of food films, suggesting an interpretation of Marco Ferreri’s La grande abbuffata (1973). The movie is read through the lens of the conceptualizations of food advanced, respectively, by Plato, the Cynics, Epicurus and Lucretius, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Arthur Schopenhauer. Each thinker defined the symbolical and practical relevance of food in human existence while indicating a path toward balance, self-awareness, and wisdom, also in reference to sexuality, mortality, and art that are widely dealt with in Ferreri’s movie. I contend that the film’s action, dialogue and visual imagery represent a systematic transgression and subversion of such philosophical teachings. I further argue that this interpretation, while being more fine-grained, integrates rather than replacing the commonplace reading of La grande abbuffata as a social allegory.

这篇文章将饮食哲学与对食物电影的研究相结合，提出了对马可·费雷里（Marco Ferreri）的《La Grande abbuffata》的解释（1973）。这部电影是通过柏拉图，犬儒主义者，伊壁鸠鲁和卢克修蒂斯，让·雅克·卢梭和亚瑟·叔本华的食物概念化的镜头来阅读的。每个思想家都定义了食物在人类生存中的象征意义和实际意义，同时指出了通往平衡，自我意识和智慧的道路，同时也参考了费雷里电影中广泛涉及的性，死亡率和艺术。我认为这部电影的动作，对话和视觉意象代表了这种哲学教义的系统性侵犯和颠覆。我进一步认为，这种解释虽然细化了，却融合了而不是取代作为一种社会寓言而平常读La randed abbuffata。