One of the many things I don't understand

 I don't know why, but for some reason, when I hear people speaking French, my mouth starts watering. I think it's because the first movie I saw where there was an abundance of the language was Inglourious Basterds, and at one scene (the one in the picture above), Hans Landa is sitting in a restaurant eating a pastry of some sort with cream on top of it, and the way he says the name of the pastry and the way he describes it just sounds so delicious. I love pastries. But anyway, it more than likely has something to do with the way the language is spoken. I've never studied it, but I can tell (especially when he says the word for "cream") that they have to use a lot of the muscles that are near the back of the throat, where the mouth starts to water. So when I watched "Love Me if you Dare", which is definitely my favorite foreign film, or Amélie (which I just watched and thus the reason for this post), my mouth started producing saliva like crazyyyy and I really wanted a puff-pastry. It really makes me want to study French. I took 4 years of Spanish, and I have the language down pretty well. There are a lot of similiarites between the two languages, so perhaps I should give it a go.

Speaking of foreign films, I love the way French movies are filmed; how sometimes they'll show scenes of the main character watching television or a movie in which the character themself is starring. Basically, it's as if the character is watching their own life in action. There is a scene in (500) Days of Summer where they use this specific form of filming. I'm not sure if they're poking fun at the method or just using it to put a different spin on the movie as a whole, but I'm hoping for the latter because I love it.

Also, not only do languages make my mouth water, but sometimes words do, too. Examples are "flan" and "custard". I don't know why, seeing as how I've only had "flan" once (and it's a type of "custard"), and I barely remember it. This obviously proves it wasn't particularly delicious.

That's my random update for the day.