In the horror comedy of Mark Mylod in 2022 “The Menu”, Anya Taylor-Joy plays Margot, a young woman who is invited to an extremely expensive meal in one of the most exclusive restaurants on the planet. The restaurant is called Hawthorn, and you can only access it by traveling by boat to a remote private island. All the restaurant ingredients are cultivated and cultivated on the island, and ultra-fresh food would be the best in the world. He is supervised by the culinary genius Fou Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) who was obsessed with food all his life.
Margot is led to Hawthorn by the Callow Slowik Groupie Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) which is more excited to be in the presence of Slowik than to eat food. It will be revealed later that Margot was a last -minute replacement after Tyler’s original date jumped. She is out of her element in a place like Hawthorn, and knows nothing about the world of high -end gourmets. It is surrounded by bourgeois idiots, including film stars, technical brothers and food critics who all talk about food in terms of highfalutin.
During a dinner with several dishes in Hawthorn, it will be revealed that Slowik has developed a powerful psychopathic hatred of its ultrach and little appropriate customers, and built a meal that will cause guilt, horror and death. One of the courses involves a chef who dies of suicide. Another will incorporate a human hunt for “most dangerous” style style. The guests will all face a moral calculation while Slowik supervises the kitchen like Jigsaw by Jose Andres. Know that “the menu” is presented with a crazy tone, making the film a comic satire as much as a horror film.
To date, “The Menu” is a huge success on Netflix, finding a new audience more than two years after its release.
The menu is again a blow, thanks to the streaming
“The menu”, it should be noted, was much appreciated when it was released in 2022, and was even nominated for several prestigious prices. Made for a budget of $ 30 million, “the menu” has won $ 79 million at the box office, making it a modest blow. He has an 88% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes (based on 334 critics), and many criticism organizations cited him as one of the best films of the year. One could even remember that he had an Oscar buzz, even if he was not nominated.
“The menu” is, in the world of the faithful of the food network and of Gordon Ramsay, and an incredibly timely stuffing. We live in a world where occasional viewers all over the world can have opinions on the best way to prepare the flank of deer, or how we could perfect the right soufflé. “The menu” seeks to divide those who eat food for the pleasure of those who seem to eat certain types of high -end meals such as a class expression. Slowik also points out that the types of people who can afford to eat in its restaurants have acquired so many wealth, they have essentially erased their own ability to enjoy food. Only Margot, a foreigner, can see all the experience like the farce it is. Indeed, there is a moment when Slowik takes Margot away, recognizing that she is not like the others.
The end of “The Menu” also presents one of the most beautiful cheeseburgers that one could see in a film. Despite the rich gourmets, we will not be able to look at “the menu” without wanting to try some of the exposed foods.
As usual, the unpredictable whims of streaming have found another random film that the public discovers either for the first time or to reappear well. This week has also seen a revival of the terrible comedy of 2006 “You, Me and Dupree” and the Slasher suite “Scream VI”, so who can say where the head of the public is?
