What we can be is a million times more than what the majority thinks of us now.
It's another wild imagination for Pixar Animation Studios to pick a rat and let him step foot on the most forbidden place for his kind: the kitchen. But it's another lesson we've come to learn as kids: that "anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great".
Ratatouille (2007, directed by Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava) introduces Remy the rat (Patton Oswalt), possessing both the talent and the will to become a chef. With the help of his inspiration and owner of Paris's most famous restaurant Chef Gusteau (Brad Garrett), he always takes the risk, do the rat work of stealing spices and food scraps, and cook innovative cuisines food critiques would always beg for. But of course, achieving the chef toque is no easy task.
Remy represents most of us who are bound by our physical differences and the fear of the majority's approval. But then we learn we can always achieve when we believe and take the risks. We learn not to drop off our dreams too easily just because of what other people think of us.
Just like the monster-kid relationship in Monsters Inc. (2001), we witnessed another impossible friendship from a rat and a human being named Linguini (Lou Romano), and especially this time, he could'nt seriously hear Remy talk. But then it also represents a mysterious bonding that somehow, can never be understood by the majority.
The movie also taught us to appreciate the art of cooking, highlighting Remy's exceptional knowledge about food and his biggest challenge yet in cooking for the grumpy food critique Anton Ego (Peter O'Toole). Except that his biggest problem was simply being a rat and no one could possibly imagine themselves gobbling even a delectable cuisine cooked by a rat.
I remembered my dad saying he doesn't care about who cooked the food he's chomping down, or how it's cooked, as long as he didn't see either and it's delicious. The scene when Remy's whole clan were cooking the Ratatouille dish still chills me to the bone when I remember it. If I would ever eat one, I'll just have to remember what my dad said.
What we look like shouldn't matter in a way, as long as we're determined to say that nobody can ever get in the way to reach our dreams.
Ratatouille Fact Sheet
1. The Pixar filmmakers had to tour Paris and research about its cuisines and the art of cooking to perfectly portray it in an animated film.
2. Earning a total of $621M worldwide, Ratatouille also garnered an Academy Award for Best Animated Film and five record-breaking nominations.
3. Director Brad Bird first had his doubts about the peasant Ratatouille dish, not until the legendary French Laundry chef Thomas Keller took his stand in the unique dish.
4. Remy and Bird had one thing in common: they both had the itch to create new things and "add something new to the world."
5. Ratatouille (stirred chunky stew in French) is a French vegetable side dish made of zucchini, eggplants and tomatoes.
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