CHEF FLYNN
Recommended. It started with an alcoholic father and next came school bullying. Thankfully the father left the family to treat his addiction and returned years later. Luckily, too, the mother is an independent and creative person herself so she withdrew her son from school seeing him pushed by a kid. That's how he avoided the fate of those who got damaged mentally by the peer group. Curiously, an alcoholic father is a common denomination of future chefs who regain control through work in the kitchen. But from the documentary covering the teenager's all life so far you see also the kid's innate optimism and leadership - well, the latter supported by his extremely involved mum. The rest of the young chef's development was online research, imagination and focus. Interesting that Flynn McGarry moved all the way from LA to NYC to forward his cooking career there. Another trivia is the acclaimed prodigy chef snacking on... junk food. The film makes the best of showcasing the accuracy with which the dishes are composed to please the eye in the first place. Flynn is so cute you start to wonder if he had become equally popular if he had been ugly. The relatively short, well-paced film has done best showing Flynn's can-do attitude at times of troubles and frustration. It has clearly worked. Another thing is that the boy is doing what he loves so, in a way, this toil is no work at all.
As for a documentary concocted out of home videos, Flynn and his mum's utterances, scenes from kitchens and markets and shots of food, it's truly professional. Even the music during the credits attracts. Most importantly, now I'd love to try the beet Wellington I had never heard of before.
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