Author: Jenny Marshall
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Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird. Buena Vista Pictures. 2007.
In the Ratatouille scene where Remy and Emile enter an old woman’s house, questions of animal invasion into human spaces are raised. The woman’s reaction is to kill the trespassing rats; a reaction which, in reality, we would be unlikely to query. Fig. 1 As uncaged rats they represent pests, undesirable to find in one’s home. The…