A scary beginning and simple story

Nora 2022-01-13 08:01:20

Its theme is that abstinence because of religious or any ideological requirements, it is not good to give up earthy happiness, the beauty of food, the beauty of light changes (the changes of lights show our way to heaven) It is a gift from God. The big reason why this movie won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is that it mirrors the XXist movement. When the priest was still alive, the residents of the town seemed to be united because of religious enthusiasm. The priest’s two daughters also gave up their happiness for God. After the priest died, they fell apart. Babette liberated the young through the art of food. In the town, everyone sang around the well in the end, naturally singing lyrical secular songs.

Doesn’t this mean that people in Soviet Russia and other places seem to be happy because of a certain kind of enthusiasm. After this ideology collapsed, they fell into problems, and Western literary, film and music consumer products came to save them and let them face it. To the desire of man, leading to happiness?

Such an old theme of the Renaissance, the construction of facial makeup, if not because it meets the ideological requirements, how can it be worth noting today? I'm afraid it would be more appropriate to make an animated short film.

But what made me angry was that it used a lot of dissonance at the beginning, and it put out a posture to make people think it was going to talk about something like Tarkovsky, but it was actually such a simple thing.

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  • Susanna 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    It is also very frightening when you think about it, Babette, you have seen strong winds and waves, and now you are back in the field, and occasionally have the opportunity and conditions to complete an art practice; Now that you are enlightened, how can you tell these old men and old ladies how to live in the future? !

  • Alexis 2022-03-18 09:01:05

    Protestantism advocates asceticism and asceticism. Those who believe in it must separate physical and spiritual desires and be wary of sensory desires. For example, young daughters and musicians from Catholicism practice songs because they associate love and must be rejected. The film also spent a lot of pen and ink depicting how the believers, including the two sisters, restrained their sensory pleasure (simmered, dried fish and bread is standard), and then created rifts inside. Babette, as a hermit chef from Catholic France, bridged the gap with a French meal. She is an artist who creates sensory pleasures for all people (believers or generals) through cooking. The reason why she is not impoverished is because she respects the taste buds and enjoys the person who relieves depression and liberates the soul. As Heidegger said, let " Truth is set into the work by itself". The film's description of her process of making a big meal, buying ingredients, and walking outside is like a reproduction of Heidegger's interpretation of the words of farm shoes. Babette’s banquet is Babette’s world. It is a living being. Everyone takes the past and keeps the truth of the world open and clear by tasting food and drinks.

Babette's Feast quotes

  • Pastor: In this calling of mine, my two daughters are my right and left hands. Would you deprive me of them?

  • Young Lt. Lorens Löwenhielm: I am going away forever - and I shall never, never see you again. For I have learned here that life is hard and cruel and that in this world there are things that are - impossible.