Fantastic Literary Analysis on Ratatouille

Fantastic Literary Analysis on Ratatouille

Ratatouille Plot Summary

A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely - and certainly unwanted - visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.

Pure Marvelous. Events are supernatural, superhuman, and magical. There is no rational explanation.

In the movie, it is shown that rats can talk to one another, even to humans. They speak up what they have in mind and share what they feel to one another. However, contradictory to what the movie has presented, rats can’t really talk. All people know that. More so, in contrast to the movie, rats can’t really have a knack for cooking. In the first place, they can’t hold the ladle, turn on the gas range, or do whatever kitchen chore is out there. Rats, in shorts, don’t have humanlike behavior. They don’t feel like humans. They don’t think like humans. They don’t interact like humans. That is because they are not human.

Fantastic Marvelous. Supernatural event are eventually to be accepted as supernatural. Fear is turned to wonder.

One of the amazing scenes in the movie is when the clan of rats worked together to cook the dish to be served for all the queuing costumers in the bistro. This happened after all the chefs left the young cook as they discovered a downright filthy secret he has been keeping all those times: a rat is the one that instructs him to cook fabulous eatables. While it should be a disgust that should be felt upon knowing that notoriously dirty creatures were the ones doing all the kitchen stuffs, everything turned into an expanding feeling of awe and marvel sanitizing the whole grime-stricken truth. Suddenly, it became an anticipation whether the costumers would like the ratty food they eat.

Fantastic Uncanny. Supernatural events are eventually given a natural explanation. Reader’s hesitation is resolved that there is no explanation.

One of the supernatural abilities of Remy, a rat, in the movie is having an intense smelling sense. While some would think it not in that way, there is actually an explanation behind this. Since rats live in a rich, complex world of smell, every surface, every object, every whiff of air, contains different smells and information for them.

Sources: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382932/plotsummary