It says that the desire for food and sex is natural.
I have never been able to resist beauty, food, and beauty.Recently, a long-awaited eye-catching blockbuster finally came online.
The three leading actors directly hit the ceiling of appearance.
Moreover, it's a gourmet theme. I don't know if it tastes good, but the presentation is exquisite.
However, as the plot develops, the more I watch it, the more I feel something is wrong.The story is very wried, which is both attractive and frightening. I never expected that the first odd movie of this year would be here——The Menu
Margot and Tyler are a couple in love.
Tyler is rich and generous.
He is going to a top internet celebrity restaurant with Margot.
The restaurant is on an island.
All guests attending the banquet need to take a cruise ship first.
Only 12 guests are entertained once a time, and each person costs US$1,250.
Hearing that a meal was so expensive, Margot, who was born into an ordinary family, couldn't help sighing: What to eat? Are you eating a Rolex?
Soon, Margot discovered that the meal was not simple.
The most special thing is the unique dining ritual.Before eating, there is a person to introduce the restaurant environment and ingredients.The seafood is harvested on the same day, and the beef is strictly smoked for 152 days.
The aim is to give guests the best dining experience.
The dinner restaurant is decorated with high-end decorations and extraordinary style.
The most conspicuous thing is the regular and strict open kitchen.
An unobstructed view of the kitchen, almost militarized management.
The head chef is the absolute authority and responds to everything.
Every time he gives an order, the response is always a uniform "Yes, Chef".
The head chief was the absolute center of the whole dinner.
What everyone eats and what to do is all decided by him.
Is Customer God?
Sorry, customers here have absolutely no choice.
Want to add a meal?
Sorry, no.
I do not want to eat.
Sorry, that doesn't work either.
In such an atmosphere, the food also stands out.
When she was on the boat, Margot tasted a dish called "Mignonette Emulsion Oyster".The introduction was fancy, but Margot complained directly: "isn't it the waste from the pond?"
The big meals in the restaurant are even more wired.
There is a dish called "Breadless Bread".No bread, just bread dips. It's all metaphysics, eating air bread by imagination.
There is also a dish called "island". At first glance, it is exquisite. But when you eat it, you will find that it's just ordinary scallop meat and seaweed.
Before each dish is served, the chef will tell a story.
In the beginning, he talked about truth, goodness, and beauty.
But later, the story became the shadow of childhood with a knife in the leg.
When it's the turn of a dish called "dilemma", a young chef is invited.
He told a story with tears in the corners of his eyes.
I thought it was an inspiring story of struggle.
To everyone's surprise, the chef stuffed the gun into his mouth extremely fast——
boom!
The blood splashed on the tarpaulin hung up in advance.
There was an uproar in the audience.
The chef calmly comforted everyone.
Said it was part of the "menu".
Next, the tortillas were served.
But the seemingly unremarkable pie crust made everyone feel apprehensive.
The pattern of pie crust on everyone's table was different.
It was printed with every customer's darkest secret.
Some are tax bills, some are cheating photos, and some are cheating history.
Someone was frightened by this scene.
They wanted to leave the seat, but they could not.
Because the price of breaking the rule that it was forbidden to leave halfway through this dinner was painful——a finger.
A high-end dinner party gradually turned into a murder scene.
The whole movie is rather grotesque.
Under the packaging of handsome men and beautiful women, "The Menu" is a satirical film.
It is directed at all kinds of fancy online celebrity restaurants.
The restaurant in the film has an outrageous environment, prices, dishes, and chefs.
Almost all outrageousness is the usual method of online celebrity shops.
The chef was like a mad artist.
He deconstructed all food and imposed artistic meaning on it.
Everyone was part of the "menu".
The plot may seem exaggerated, but many places are familiar.
For example, "eat mobile phone first" before eating.
Tyler, as a food enthusiast, strictly implements this.
Even though the restaurant prohibits taking photos, he couldn't help but take a few photos first.
Another example is those fancy dishes.
If it appeared in an ordinary restaurant, it was a scam.
But in online celebrity shops, there is style.
Even if those rich people think it is outrageous, they will not admit it.
Instead, they would call it a bold artistic innovation.
Most ironically, one of the customers was a food critic.
Her job was to pick good restaurants for the masses.
But in fact, she just forced new ideas on flashy food.
The dish made of seaweed and stones became "eating the sea" in her words.
Seeing the bread without bread, she praised him without hesitation.
She believed the chef had a keen insight into "the class history reflected in food".
Everyone was boasting, and no one raised any objections.
Even just a "good" will be considered superficial.
Here, what is showing up is not only rich and stylish but also the face of the rich.
The chef created a popular Internet celebrity restaurant for them.
Let them show their noble status and taste.
These customers, with their hypocrisy and arrogance, cooperated with the chef and became part of his menu.
The title of the movie is "Menu", but in fact "Menu" is more than dishes.
It's about the people and things in it.
The chef seems to be a loyal fan of food art, but he is more like a play on the spot.
With contrived obedience and hypocritical performances, he has firmly grasped the lifeblood of these rich people.
He knew they wouldn't fight but just panic.
He wanted to destroy.
Because all those who thought the food was art did not care about the dishes themselves.
What they want is an experience packaged with money.
The food is not important.
Nobody cared whether the food was enough to eat and what the chef was cooking.
They just wanted stories, to take pictures, and to brag without thinking.
Someone came 11 times but couldn't remember a single dish.
The so-called dinner party, for them, was an art exhibition in a different form.
Of course, the "menu" is not about food in essence, but class.
It was from an ordinary social event to a siege targeting the rich.
Margot was the only exception.
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She as a call girl made her the most special one.
When her boyfriend was busy apologizing to the chef and others were busy bragging about the delicious food, she was the only one who spoke out.
The taste was mediocre.
She pointed out the weirdest part of this restaurant.
"You paid for his services, why should you listen to him?"
It attracted the chef's attention.
A poor background made Margot retain the most primitive feeling for food.
When everyone was silent, she boldly stated that she was not full and asked the chef to make a cheeseburger instead.
Margot's "out of line" actually won the favor of the chef.
During the making of burgers, the chef rarely smiled.
From Margot, he saw the purest and most primitive love of customers for food.
He didn't have to think about the story and make the packaging.
All he had to do is seriously make a delicious burger.
In reality, the trend of Internet celebrity food is also constantly happening.
Food is not for eating, but for appreciation and enjoyment.
The meaning of eating has completely changed.
They are all packaging a series of outrageous external behaviors into a trend that people flock to, but in the end, they deviate from their original meaning.
It is where the setting of "Menu" shines.
It uses the dishes on the table to refer to all over-packaged "arts". It looks attractive, but it is not filling and is tasteless.
The excessive pursuit of these flashy things wants to cover up a hollow heart that wants to cling to style.
As the first thriller of the year, "The Menu" isn't perfect. There are some flaws in the storyline and character creation. But more cleverly, it has a good balance between irony, thriller, and comedy.
Overall, it's an entertaining movie that's worth watching.
Especially the ending is pretty ridiculous.
After watching it, I just want to have a large cheeseburger and take a bite.
Cool!
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