art and reality. same thing?

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Nation & World | "Ratatouille" makes a star out of Paris rat-trap shop | Seattle Times Newspaper:

In a key scene from "Ratatouille," the father of Rémy, a rat who wants to be a chef, shows him a pest-control shop and tells him humans do nasty things to rodents.

To eerie background music and in the light of a street lamp on a wet night, the father points to the scores of dead rats hanging by strings in the window. The store's shelves have medieval-looking traps and boxes of rat poison.

The animated film and Rémy have made Aurouze, the real-life rat-trap shop in central Paris featured in the film, something of a tourist attraction.