Babette's Feast -- The General's Toast -- Mercy and truth have met together
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- Mercy and truth have met together.
Righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another.
Man, in his weakness and shortsightedness...
believes he must make choices in this life.
He trembles at the risks he takes.
We do know fear.
But no.
Our choice is of no importance.
There comes a time when your eyes are opened.
And we come to realize...
that mercy is infinite.
We need only await it with confidence...
and receive it with gratitude.
Mercy imposes no conditions.
And, lo!
Everything we have chosen...
has been granted to us.
And everything...
we rejected...
has also been granted.
Yes, we even get back what we rejected.
For mercy and truth are met together.
And righteousness and bliss...
shall kiss one another.
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Babette's Feast (1987)
"Babettes gæstebud" (original title)
Director: Gabriel Axel
General Lorens Löwenhielm: Jarl Kulle
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Perhaps it is a desecration to take this scene out of context, but it is so wonderful in context that it shall be risked. The General has just enjoyed the rarest of meals in the most unlikely of places. He makes an after dinner speech that is more of a sermon and prayer. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
My all-time favorite movie, my all-time favorite scene. Thank you!
Excellent expression of Love & Mercy
A depiction of God's Love in Giving His All, His Only Begotten Son
This speech echoes so much of Soren Kierkegaard's ideas in his famous essay, "Fear & Trembling." One of the best scenes in the history of film. Just beautiful.
Don't forget "Either/Or". Everybody in this film is facing down human finitude. The Pietists have abandoned the world and its pleasures, only to have their holy experiment come to bickering and quarrels, the General has abandoned the pious life he once desired for the fading glories of the world.
Human finitude is sometimes a theme in Lutheranism. I remember hearing an old Lutheran Hour sermon that started with that theme, that our work never seems finished, our ambitions never fully actualized, but on the Cross, Christ declared "It is finished". One perfect work, bestowed freely on all who would receive it. I'm sure something like that was the theme behind this film- we can only find our fulfillment in something transcendent, which in this world is sacramentally mediated through a community transformed by acts of grace and self-giving love.
The center of this movie is exactly shown here: fate and freedom collapsed in mercy.
Very rare movie , it honors both God and man as it nourishes the soul.
My favourite scene in this movie
his words spoke to my soul 😭❤
the climax of this amazing movie
Danke für die Sendung! Jedes mal wenn ich diese Worte höre, weine ich stark. Dieser Film ist groß.
I methodically wrote out this entire after-dinner speech when I watched the movie on DVD. I felt that I wanted to inscribe it in my journal, where I could come back to it again and again.
But here it is.Thank you, Straussian, for your upload. I will be able to forward this to my friends.
after the movie ends. they all go back to their day to day routines?
Noe - I did exactly the same and wrote it in my journal decades ago ! It’s so many moving.
@@randomrazr Good question. I think that everyone actually underwent a major reframing of their lives. Transformative event as it was.
@@rr7firefly You also get a sense that it was a "sunset" event. If it was 100 years since the old Dean's birth on this date, his followers must've been in their 60's, 70's, and 80's. They would gradually each one come to their end, but there would be no squabbling and fighting. The grace they' d received for the teachings of old Dean was restored to them that night, and they would go to their Eternal rest in peace.
I looked online for the speech and discovered that the opening lines are from Psalm 85. Thank you, Straussian, for transcribing it.
Wonderful, uplifting movie!
Babette's Feast - The General's Speech
This was a delicious film that shared the gospel through all the senses. It was the secular general, the most worldly man in the midst, who, along with Babette herself, fully understood what the feast was all about. the general says it so well.
Happy Thanksgiving.
May you enjoy a feast of love today.
Jarl Kulle❤️❤️❤️
So gorgeous. God, I LOVE this film!
If you haven't, read the short story. The movie is very faithful to the story. I can even think of two additions which didn't detract, but actually enhance it. In the movie, when a young officer Löwenhielm is staying with his aunt, he attends the Dean's studies. It is from the Old Dean himself that we first hear "Mercy and Truth are met..." Recall that young Löwenhielm left because of the "impossibilities of this cruel world," but now the old Deans words come back to him as he gives the dinner speech and make him realize that "in this world anything is possible." The other addition is the character of Christopher. You get the impression that he doesn't grasp everything going on around him, but is aware that something wonderful is happening. All he can mange to say is, "Hallelujah!"
Meraviglioso film, meravigliosa atmosfera d'altri tempi, seppur in una casa umile! Complimenti alla protagonista!
Who’s the thumbs down??? Always has to be that one hater.🙈
Maybe just a hopeless knucklehead.
Utvivlsomt en af Jarl Kulles bedste præstationer.
Very good movie!
This is peak Christian cinema. This is what Christian movies should all be like.
Interesting how sometimes the best Christian movies aren't made by Christian production companies. This is a very different movie than "Babette's Feast," but the movie "Soul Surfer" (admittedly aimed at teenagers) does a good job of conveying the Faith of Bethany Hamilton, but the movie was not made by a Christian production company.
@@timnichols2906 Sadly, I think the talent pool is much smaller and there are less resources available to make great things when the talent is there
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It's Shakespearen in Spanish.
It's not Spanish. I am not sure what language it is, I believe it is Danish, but it is certainly not Spanish
@@SKyrim190 i just gave myself a huge facepalm. Thanks. Either way, I think about this clip once a week, it's good to watch it again. I think about it because when I cook, i would have to wait so long for the next course, I wondered what they did in between. I believe he gave like 5 speeches like this that night. The man who once left this girl because he hated her father's long speeches, now he does em himself.
@@cervgiovanni it is indeed a beautiful movie and a beautiful speech. "Bliss and righteousness shall kiss" (which I know is not original from the script, it is from Psalms 85) usually brings tears to my eyes
@@SKyrim190 oh no way! I did not know that! Again, hes emulating the father
The general speaks in Swedish in the entire movie. His diction is impeccably clear, so the Danes should have no trouble understanding his words. But I am puzzled by the subtitles, which correctly translate "barmhärtighet" as mercy, and "nåden" as mercy too when the latter is actually "grace" (as in giving not-necessarily-deserved favor, as opposed to withholding deserved reprimand) -- and he does say "nåden ställer inga villkor" i.e. grace imposes no conditions, just wait for it in confidence and accept it with gratitude ("blott vänta med tillit och mottaga med tacksamhet").
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He ends with:
"Everything is boring, we don't need to do anything, everything hurts... That being said, let me give you some mental image softporn"