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How does one romanticise the concept of cooking? Well, take a little bit of Paris, garnish it with some white and red wine, a little bit of cheese on the side, usher in some of that French air, add, perhaps some mundane salt to taste, and top it off with a rat.(trailer)
Of course it is hard to resist the temptation to ask- where did the rat come from?
Putting a rat on the movie screen is as horrifying as taking the cigarette out of Humphrey Bogart’s mouth or perhaps to allude to incidents in recent times, allowing Paris Hilton to speak her mind! But alas, the faux pas in this case is admissable, especially when Pixar decides to commit something of this sort.
Most of us love the concept of food, some to eat and others to cook, some to devour, others to cherish. The central theme of Ratatouille is “Anyone can cook”. As much as food seems to be a utility to some, to others it is Monet. The sauce is on the pastel capturing the moment of sunset, a sprinkling of basil sets a gentle draft of breeze, and the tongue, the tongue relishes the moment. The stage is thus set for the central character Remy (the rat of course) to extoll his love for gourmet food and prefer it, ahem…to garbage. The opportunity to experience and taste come by, not long after he gets to cook in a gourmet restaurant in Paris. The rest is of course predictable fare but the charm of this movie lies in serving a frequently used platter on a gold plate.
To describe this movie, many words could be uninteresting. Few, too subtle. It is rather hard to talk about Ratatouille. Its like trying to talk about a place, like Venice….it is the experience that counts.
Its not hard to write about anything these days. There is enough fodder in the world to write, to read but inertia is really the problem. My uncle Newton could not have put it more beautifully, “Every body remains in a state of rest as long as it can hit the snooze button”
The news today: Paris Hilton traumatized. I feel really sad for her. Imagine how it must be for a celebrity to move from a house the size of Honolulu to her dog kennel. Traumatic indeed. Obviously her problems are so much more horrifying than the Israel Palestine crisis. In comparision, the problems in the middle east are a quibble over left over custard well past its expiry date. The news article gets even more interesting. Paris Hilton was released early for good behaviour. I cant help noticing the obvious oxymoron. And not to forget, the most ‘all explanatory’ statement- “God makes everything happen for a reason.” – Yes he does and the reason is to avoid your painful presence on the news!
She also claims to have re- evaluated her life. I wonder if version 2.0 is bug free. Or maybe it has developed perceptive capabilities to detect the ‘do not disturb’ sign on my doorstep.
Well anyway none of these mythical things ever happen. Paris Hilton will still be on the news for doing nothing and I will still be stuck in the rain without an umbrella
What makes celebrities such endearing news items?
I think i find myself in a worthy position to finally write again. Today marks the day when I have finished all 6 of the harry potter books. The contagion which I had avoided until now got the better of me. Nevertheless, it was a wonderfully enjoyable read. It looks like book 6 decorates the stage and is all set for the opening act of book 7.
My favourite book is not book 5. I know that for sure. The good ones are only mildly easy to pick but if I had to choose, The chamber of secrets, the prisoner of azkaban and the goblet of fire, make up for the best of the lot. I’ll keep the philosophers stone and the half blood prince as book ends.
The characters that turned out to be most disappointing would have to be Sirius Black. It was rather upsetting to see that fascinating hero from book 3 turns out to be actively involved in egg incubation in the later books.
My favourite character would have to be Severus Snape. All other’s in the book are totally one dimensional objects that would rather exist in flat land.
Oh, must I mention that the 6th milestone has been reached? Perhaps that will do….well I could add the extreme heat and the fact that volcanoes seemed like island resorts on that day? Just a passing thought…..
I liked my little nap at the end of all of it. It was a good nap. It was also accompanied by a strange dream where I had a killer whale in my house and I stuck a needle like object through the back of its eye. Of course, following that unfortunate course of action I made it up by trying to find a means to keep it alive…one of them also involved using a garden hose to water the whale.
