Babette's Feast

After both reading the short story and watching the movie, I prefer the movie although there are a few things that surprised me in the movie.

First, I was expecting a fancier setting in the movie but it turned out to be very plain. There is hardly any extravagant decorations beside the portrait of the Dean in the house where the two sisters live in. But in fact that demonstrates what is said in the short story. Besides the fact that they are both puritans, the two sisters "had never possessed any article of fashion; they had dressed demurely in gray or black all their lives."

Second, in the short story, the author doesn't say a lot about how the feast was prepared. However, in the movie, there are parts that show the preparation of the meal. And the part Babette cut the bird head into half and how the General ate the bird head really disgusted me.

There is one thing that I like a lot about the movie is that it shows each person's expressions. It's funny to watch the conversation between the general and one of the Brothers about how wonderful the food was. The General knows this meal is one of the best meals he has ever had. He tries to share this with people around, but instead of talking about the food, the Brother responded with something completely irrelevant. 

The movie also flows better. It helps me understand the whole story in a clearer order.