Babett's Feast

 In the movie Babette's Feast, the title heroine, Babette, prepares a sumptuous feast that serves as a metaphor for love. The feast represents healing and reconciliation, dismantling obstacles and uniting people in happiness and peace. Eros and agape are both expressed through symbols and visuals that represent love. Agope, selflessness, and unconditional love are demonstrated by Babette giving up her whole lottery winnings to prepare the feast, while Eros, the passionate and sensual love, is symbolized by the sensual pleasures of food and wine. 

Like Water for Chocolate explores the strong feelings and cravings that accompany romantic relationships, while Babette's Feast emphasizes the purity and selflessness of love. Both works present distinctive viewpoints on the subject of love. Like Water for Chocolate adopts a more imaginative and dramatic style to enhance the emotional impact of its story, while Babette's Feast uses subtle acting and lifelike visuals to create a sense of closeness and realness. Both films use different filming techniques to convey their unique takes on the theme of love. 


While Like Water for Chocolate chooses a more imaginative and dramatic style, it enhances the emotional effect of its story with vibrant colors, magical realism, and opulent graphics. Babett's Feast uses subtle acting and convincing visuals to create a sense of intimacy and realness. Though they use distinct approaches and have distinct subject frameworks, both movies offer perceptive glimpses into the true nature of love. The movie's eros symbols serve as a reminder that love has the power to change people and unite them in unexpected ways. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Kip Redick Introduction

Welcome to the Religion and Film blog for 2024. Make sure to start the blog with your name and the subject of the entry (Just as I have done with this post). Blog entries will be considered informal writing assignments and as such will be graded more in relation to content than style. Blog entries will contain questions and answers to questions, as well as reflections which relate to daily classroom discussions, completion of exercises, and reading assignments. Any questions the student has when reading or completing assignments should be written in their blog. Reflections may relate to connections the student makes between discussions in this class and those in other classes, between arguments raised in the readings in this class and those raised in other classes or in informal conversations. Students are encouraged to apply the ideas learned in this class to activities that take place outside of the class. These applications make great reflections. The student should bring quest...
Read more

Akere Simms - Blog Decalogue

  In Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Decalogue films, the audience will gain a deeper understanding on the Midrash motive; connecting both films to the 10 commandments, and the laws a Christian must abide by so that they may strive and live more like Christ. In the first decalogue, the audience will gather the setting of a young intelligent boy(Pawel), whose aunt wishes that he enhances his own spiritual connection. When with his father, they both subconsciously find themselves consumed by a man made computer. He asks his father what “death” truly is, seeking for more than just the scientific answer most people would say. “Death is a memory, thoughts and specific characteristics of one person after they have passed on.” When Pawel and his father come to discover that the computer they have has the ability to form a consciousness all while being extremely intelligent; they begin to feel (or at least Pawel) that they can visualize his mom’s dreams all while communicating with her. Krzystof (P...
Read more

Decalogue 1&5 Kaylyn Rivera

The film works as a visual medium of Midrash due to its poetic, disruptive, and investigable concepts. Midrash is explained as taking a deeper look into the text at hand and interpreting the meaning of it as we see it. Historian Henry Abramson explains Midrash as similar to the modern-day literary technique of deconstructionism. Midrash is not exactly a criticism, nor interpreted as fact, but as an explanation of what the religious text in mind may mean while observing it through a critical, self-imposed lens. In the films shown, we are given bits and pieces of the character's lives. They are ordinary people; a father, a son, a friend, a sister… No meaning is blatantly given to us, rather and perhaps, hinted at or alluded to. The films are disruptive to our sense of what is right and wrong on a deeper level while considering the implications of the commandments. Should we trust in science as an “icon” or is this blasphemous to a “god”? Should we condone the murder of a murderer? ...
Read more