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Summary

• 🎭 Comedy and suspense are two genres that are typically seen as incompatible, but the movie “The Menu” successfully combines them.
• 🍽 The characters in the movie are familiar yet heightened to the point of caricature, adding to the film’s satirical tone.
• 🤣 The movie elicits laughter while also creating suspense, keeping the audience engaged throughout.
• 🍔 The underlying message of the movie is targeted at foodie culture and the ways in which it has gone awry.
• 💰 The movie explores the transactional nature of content consumption and the commodification of art and food.
• 🎨 The chef’s craft is degraded into content, losing its power to evoke emotions and becoming a status symbol for the wealthy
• ⚖️ The movie raises questions about entitlement, punishment, and the role that both creators and consumers play in perpetuating a broken system.

Highlights

• 🎭 The movie successfully combines comedy and suspense genres.
• 🍽 The characters are familiar yet heightened, adding to the film’s satirical tone.
• 🤣 The movie elicits laughter while creating suspense.
• 🍔 The movie targets foodie culture and its problematic aspects.
• 💰 It explores the transactional nature of content consumption.
• 🎨 The chef’s craft is degraded into content, losing its power.
• ⚖️ The movie raises questions about entitlement, punishment, and the broken system.

If you’re a creative, you’ve known every single person at those tables, the workers (you’re probably one of those) as well as the chef. I think the comedy is that creatives get to watch them get what everyone thinks they deserve without it really happening.

I had literally no context going into this movie other than it was about a chef and/or a restaurant, and it was well-reviewed.

By the time I figured out that it was basically a horror movie, which I’m not into, I had already seen a couple of graphic scenes that I wished I hadn’t, so I turned it off. Disappointing because I like the actors in it, and the story was compelling at first.