Preparing and eating a crispy food item like an apple or a pear evokes a genuine physical craving in a viewer's mind especially with crisp sound!

It doesn't matter if it's real, the culture, the music, the rituals etc. It's important that its real for the filmmaker.

Music adds a lot of richness and texture. Rituals with musical accompaniment. Traditional music.

Real vs Fantasy

Melville does not seek to simulate the world but to create anew from the materials of the world.