Ratatouille

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For reasons that will take some amount of time for me to passively figure out, Ratatouille, which I saw with classicaljunkie at the Boston Common multiplex last night, was such an elemental force of a movie that it left tears running down my face through most of its running time. The last time I reacted to a film this way was when I saw The Fellowship of the Ring in late 2001. Make of this what you will.

It is the best filmic implementation of follow your bliss that I've ever seen, a celebratory portrayal of the artistic obsession which I could really identify with, and nevermind that I can barely make spaghetti. I'm still feeling mushy just thinking back on it, it was so perfect and wonderful. Really.

Comments

[rserocki.livejournal.com]

Wow.

[keimel.livejournal.com]

Funny, I reacted emotionally to Two Towers, not FotR or RotK. I suppose it was the mighty vistas of Rohan and Minas Tirith that did _that_ for me though, as I distinctly remember 7th grade English class with Mr. Perestam and reading the trilogy. All of those years of build up of what Rohan and M.T. looked like and P. Jackson really hit the nail on the head for me.

But hey, I'll consider catching Ratatouille on your recommendation.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. Ratatouille was superb.

[(Anonymous)]

Ratatouille was good, overlooking some stuff. But seriously, you cried? At... Ratatouille?