Heart-piercing Babette Feast

Giovani 2022-03-26 09:01:11

"Babette's Banquet" has a concentrated and group-like presentation of the characteristics of Christian Lutherans, who are simple, poor, ascetic, and devout, which are reflected in the fact that they eat hard to swallow day after day. The food is more reflected in the priest's two beautiful daughters with clear voices who sacrificed their love between men and women for their religious beliefs.

And all these peaceful lives that have been maintained for many years are caused by a French meal. After all, food is the most fundamental and important gift of God. During the staggering, the members of the gathering changed from resistance at first to indulgent enjoyment that could not be concealed. This kind of feeling is not only the satisfaction of the appetite, but also the spiritual joy that penetrates the human heart. It flows between each other, making people gradually open their hearts and become harmonious and warm.

The first part of the film is as still as water, and then the close-up presentation of Babette's feast ushered in the climax of the film. The ritual sense, delicacy, richness and deliciousness of French feast. Starting from the fresh and diverse ingredients introduced by Babette, the whole process, skills and dishes of making French feast are revealed. Cooking is a formal, solemn and sacred thing. Food is not only beautiful and delicious by taking pictures of food, but also reflects the continuous enrichment of facial expressions and the gradual changes in speech, speech, behavior and behavior from the believers who eat every bite of food and drink, and beautiful things. Who doesn't love it?

So what kind of identity did Babette, who prepared this feast, have before? After winning the huge lottery, where will she go after the feast is over? The suspense was left until the end. Her dedication and devotion are unimaginable, and her love and gratitude have been poured into this feast without reservation.

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Extended Reading
  • Doug 2022-03-24 09:03:03

    Rewatch. Finally found Bibi Anderson! "This happiness makes my heart tremble and fear." The song was "Don Juan", alas... I couldn't help but break the confidence of Mr. Papin, thinking that the people who cherished in the distance may have descended into groups, but in fact they are all Only the shadows are lonely towards Gu Deng. Maybe this is the case, maybe not only the things around you, but even everything that you resolutely refused has already been given to you. If you turn around and meet you one day, you can always look at each other for a thousand words.

  • Tatyana 2022-03-24 09:03:03

    Whether food is delicious or not is actually a false proposition. Only people who can talk about delicious food in the same context as you can give an appropriate answer. At the last feast, when the general was eating roasted quail, the female chef said that the cooking was so delicious that it would blur the difference between spiritual and physical love for a while, which was very touching.

Babette's Feast quotes

  • [first lines]

    [in Danish, using English subtitles]

    Narrator: In this remote spot there once lived two sisters who were both past the first flush of youth. They had been christened Martina and Philippa after Martin Luther and his friend Philipp Melanchton. They spent all their time and almost all their small income on good works.

  • [last lines]

    [in Danish, using English subtitles]

    Filippa: In Paradise you will be the great artist that God meant you to be. Ah, how you will delight the angels!