Babette, a French woman who fled to a foreign land, was rescued and cared for by a pair of old maiden sisters in a remote Danish town, and recovered her body and mind... After she won the French 10,000 yuan prize, she brought back food materials worth 10,000 yuan from France to serve The residents of the town made a top feast.
It's a simple story with an extremely delicate and subtle theatrical structure: speculation surrounding her identity, the secluded and conservative town is no longer peaceful - this is the mysterious Babette; when she hits the jackpot , the town is in an uproar - lucky Babette; when she unexpectedly returns to the town to prepare a feast, the whole value and moral system of the town is changed - and becomes the magical Babette again. Three things about this woman are in themselves a moral shock to the conservative town—a feast.
Food is also given quite the ideological component by this film: an adventure for the palate.
Isolated and conservative, the townspeople lived a puritanical life, and in harsh and impoverished conditions, they endured old and boring taste habits; Babette not only brought ingredients they had never heard of, but also used rich flavors from afar It makes the residents of the town feel as if they have "goed to France", and the extension of perception stimulates the cultural imagination of the residents of the town. It's a journey of the palate, an adventure.
This reminds me of the description in "The Melancholy Tropics", when pepper flowed into Europe, the nobles usually carried a small bottle with them, and wanted to smell this strange and fascinating smell at any time. The richness of the spirit comes from the diversification of the means of perception. A fresh sense of taste has magical power, which can make subtle changes in the spiritual world and revive the silent life.
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