In Paris, the mouse is always the mouse

Jevon 2022-04-19 09:01:14

What the film wants to convey is an idealized vision of art that can transcend or even break classes. The problem that Remy has been struggling with in the first part of the film is that he is a non-human (proletarian) and wants to become a human (bourgeois) through cooking (art creation), but what he sees about the rat herd and human beings Reality makes it realize that it is impossible for a rat (proletarian) to become a human (assets), so Remy chooses the third path, which is to do neither, but to be a rat who creates art (with bourgeois proletariat). So here it is not that the proletariat is corrupted into the bourgeoisie, but that art breaks the barrier between the two, and the way to break the boundary between the two is shown in the part where the gourmet Hugo tastes the food, one (with a proletarian character) ) mice created a delicious dish that reminded him of the good old days of his childhood, which means that artistic creation does not contain any politics and class, which makes Hugo no longer regard it as a As a mouse, and as an artist, the class division has disappeared, but only at the artistic level, the real class division still exists (the restaurant was forced to close after being found to be infested with rats). Therefore, what the film wants to convey is indeed an idealistic vision, but at the same time it also implicitly implies that in Paris, the boundary between mice and people is always there

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  • Ahmad 2022-03-24 09:01:12

    I have never been interested in this kind of animated film. It's a cookie. Eat when you are hungry.

  • Hilma 2021-10-20 18:59:16

    It's kind of funny. Although the plot is very clichéd.

Ratatouille quotes

  • Linguini: I know this sounds insane, but... well, the truth sounds insane sometimes, but that doesn't mean it's not. Uh, the, the truth. And the truth is, I have no talent at all. But this rat, he's the one behind these recipes, he's the cook! The real cook. He's been hiding under my toque. He's the reason I can cook the food that's exciting everyone, the reason Ego is outside that door! I know it's hard to believe, but hey, you believed I could cook, right? Look. This works. It's crazy but it works. We can be the greatest restaurant in Paris and this rat, this *brilliant* Little Chef, can lead us there. What do you say?

  • Gusteau: If you focus on what you left behind you will never see what lies ahead!