Whether the rat enters the kitchen or the kitchen enters the rat, it is a dead end. But fate is so cruel: the heart of a great chef grows in the body of a mouse.
A story of man and mouse.
A movie about dreams.
A fairy tale that belongs to adults.
A little blue French mouse, it is a natural foodie, with a natural sensitivity to the color and aroma of food, can identify the raw materials of each condiment.
Its people are satisfied with garbage, but they are absolutely reluctant about food, and they spend all day thinking about ingenious ways of cooking.
It believes that even a mushroom, when done well, can be otherworldly.
Unfortunately, his talent was limited to identifying rat poison in the food of his people, until fate took him from the Paris sewers to the Gusto Restaurant, a five-star French restaurant that was in decline. The dead restaurant founder, Gusto, was Remy's spiritual idol, and he once famously said, "Everyone is a kitchen god."
It likes to tell stories like this, young people as lowly, the heart is higher than the sky, how to follow their own inner passion and creativity, without being killed by the expectations of the family, the prejudice and resistance of the society?
"It's a very interesting premise: a mouse wants to be a cook, it's gifted, but it just puts it into a completely hostile environment, because it's expressing itself in a way that the world doesn't want." I think a lot of people know what it's like. ”
Even the most insignificant little man has the right to dream, even if he is just a rat living in a gutter. Remy is like us who are busy every day, little people, without the courage to ride the wind and waves, without the ambition of the mighty mountains and rivers. For dreams, we are mostly wandering, between reality and dreams.
The film, in itself, is a plate of delicious food.
But it's not just a simple comedy story about a rat going to be a chef, it's more about telling each of us: "anyone can cook," i.e. "Not everyone can be great artists, but great artists can come from anywhere."
"People should not be bound by their own family or living environment, and everyone can achieve the achievements they yearn for through their own efforts."
The future is ahead, but choice and practice need the guidance of dreams. It is the dream that makes the ordinary carpenter become the Jesus who loves all sentient beings, and the ordinary lieutenant can become the Napoleon of the King's Landing.
Only by having dreams can we become ourselves and surpass ourselves. Little Mouse has his dream: "I don't want to just get it, I want to create something beautiful." "What about your dreams?