Description

This week on the Men at the Movies podcast, we travel to France and discuss Ratatouille. Everyone in this movie has identity issues, listening to who the world told them they are. The antagonist in this movie is the fear of believing who we could be. But creativity is seeing a world that doesn’t exist, and working to make that vision a reality. Through embracing our unique gifts and passion, we transform ourselves and the world around us. Pour yourself a glass of something delicious, and let’s discover God’s truth in this movie.

Questions

• What’s your favorite restaurant? Meal?
• What is one of your favorite things to do? What do you enjoy deeply? It could be hiking, gardening, woodworking, cooking, flying, exercising…what fills your heart with passion?
• How have other people responded to your passion?
• How have you lost your passion? Where did it go?
• Do you relate to the rats in the movie—just trying to survive, not die, doing enough to get by? Or do you embrace your passion, even though it’s risky?
• What does it mean to be creative?
• What future do you envision that you feel called to create? How has that been opposed?
• Where do you feel caught in between worlds—not a human, not a rat?
• What does it mean to be true to yourself?
• When do you follow the recipe? When do you go off script?
• Why are you drawn to repeat what’s been done before?
• What would it feel like to improvise?

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Edited and mixed by Grayson Foster (https://graysonfoster.com/)

Audio quotes performed by Britt Mooney, Paul McDonald, and Tim Willard, taken from Epic (written by John Eldredge) and Song of Albion (written by Stephen Lawhead).

Southerly Change performed by Zane Dickinson, used under license from Shutterstock