La’Raye Francisco

February 8,2020

Reel Food and World Cinema

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Food can bring out the best and worst in people. I believe the main idea of “Power of Food and the Protestant Ethics” is basically that food has the power to bring forth many different emotions. For example, it can change how you feel about something, or about a person. It can also bring you joy. Food can allow people to remember things of the past. For example, after tasting Babette’s signature dish, he was able to remember the time he went to that restaurant and ate her cooking. Good food can relieve tension and bring people closer. In the movie, Babette’s food changed the actions of the people living in the village. In the book, the author talks about how Babette’s food equated to having an angel come down. “One way of understanding the revelatory impact of Babette’s feast on her diners is to suggest that she did indeed call an angel down into their dining room, an angel of communion and forgiveness.” Food has the power to give someone a sense of peace and comfort.

Earlier in the movie, the people were arguing every time they came together for an occasion. After tasting Babette’s food, they joked and played around, sang, and seemed like they were genuinely happier. They sort of strayed from their usual Lutheran ways. They danced around the well and drank wine. Before they would have never done such a thing. Babette’s food made them less tense. The author talks about how her food made their dining experience ‘pleasurable, revelatory, and transformative.’ In the end of the movie, Martine and Philippa changed their thinking of Babette’s food. They no longer believed she was doing sorcery. I believe the main idea is mainly just about the power of food and the effect that it can have on people.

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