You are the butter to my bread, the breath to my life

     In the film, Julie is driven crazy by sustaining complaint hotlines at work; she cried, but sits silently in her small cubicle. That scene reminds me of the moment I was in a mess and feel hopeless. Other than cooking itself, in Julie’s process of imitating Julia, the movie leads us to some serious points: how to face life and what the more important thing is than just fulfilling your dream. Passion and persistence for cooking, and love from others, these are what Julie possesses but tends to ignore in process of carrying out her project. Sometimes we are so concentrated on result, being blind to joy in the hustle and bustle of everyday life. As a result, we forget to love; love the things you’re doing and love people in your life.
     Besides,“Julie and Julia” uses warm colored pictures and lovely background music with a dash of nostalgia to convey to us the love of life. Like what Paul says to Julia: “You are the butter to my bread, the breath to my life”, the love between two protagonists and their husbands is heart-warming. 

Is Babette an artist?

Babette is quite a artist of life. The way she sings and turns over her head smiling, the way she irons the tablecloth meticulously, the way she organizes a variety of fanciful food material in perfect order, the way she tastes red wine thoughtfully, the way she at the end peacefully remarks, 'I was once the chief chef of Café Anglais', A woman of exceeding height of fame who deemed gracefully pains and gains of her life could have never received enough applauses.

Babette's Feast

     Babette's presence represents a real sense of "life balance". She not only gives the ascetic people in town a chance to face their "inherent desire", which in fact is not obstacle of their belief but the sign could lead them to the heaven, but also sounds the alarm for them, that people should not be addicted themselves to the desire and pleasant, regarding those as the purpose of life, but forget the source of beauty and grace.
     She presents her own life value by spending all her money in order to bring a magnificent feast to the austere sister and villagers, but doesn't not hesitate to reject the luxury life in Paris.