Babette's Feast

Garrett Lambur
The movie Babette’s Feast was one that I really enjoyed along with the discussion at the end of the film. I only feel I should let others be aware of the fact that everything I say in those discussions is not necessarily my own belief. When it came to the General and the daughter, I said that they had love that did not need for them to be in any sort of physical contact with one another. I believe that they did have this love themselves but I do not want that love for myself. I thought the film communicated the idea very well and I had to agree with its existence between the two of them though it in way means I advocate it. I myself need companionship, I need a relationship with physical contact (insert some joke here), I could not have a relationship with one person for my whole life with just the idea of love of them. I think that this plays into real relationships however, there needs to exist the connection of love on a level above just physical love, without this the relationship seems bound to fail in my eyes. I could be completely wrong here but I just have a feeling. The other part that I loved in the film was the overlying of the different stories and plots to get to the end that happened within the film. There was the story of the General and his love of one daughter, the Opera singer and his love of one daughter, then the story of the Babette and how her feast and story becomes intertwined with the sisters through past experience. Without the Opera singer then Babette may never have come to know the sisters then through the General’s lifetime the guests at the feast may never have truly enjoyed it and thus never had their transcendent experience. The inter-tangling of these stories combined to truly make the script notable and then the movie good and interesting through out.