Review: If the ‘menu’ makes you uncomfortable, it is because it is believed

What will you give to the best dinner in the world? that is the question MenuDirector Mark Mayload’s 2022 film which landed on Netflix this month wants to open it. Will you do pilgrimage on a small separate island, throw a lot of yourself with just a dozen other dinners for the evening, and for experience will shell more than $ 1,000 per person for experience? Will you tolerate the terrible coolness of the head chef because he explains how you will consume the “entire ecosystem” during that iconic food, which is a sea of ​​foam and gels and pyas itself? and as Menu The restaurant manifests itself as a sharp, biting criticism of the industry as a harsh, slow-burning horror film, this question is contained in a certain type of food bucket-list strategy in the question-very much Gets more frightening: You are so ready, consume the world’s best foods that you will put on your life line?

The film, which stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicolas Hult, and Ralph Fynenes, who plays the rigorous chef Julian, takes a clear inspiration from the familiar narratives around the “Prestige Food”: the view of the infection, each menu card They are styled to look like each menu card. Courses are a clear signal Chef’s table. The dishes look exactly like complicated plates you will see in Nama; The possibility is to do something with the involvement of the chef Dominic Crane, who gave his expertise as the film’s Pakistani advisor. First course, sea plants, rocks, and a combination of “barely frozen filtered sea water”, apparently a moving analog which is a highly enthusiastic food toiler (halt) as its beauty, its date, route (teller-joy ) As weeps, looks in hatred.

At its core, Menu There is a extremely dark comedy that checks how class work works in the dining room, among the people serving and serving both people. Restaurant’s privileged guardians, Julian, by hand-selected for proximity to money and power, are clear vehicles for that criticism-a actor (starred by John Leguimo), a politician and his wife, and a group of unpleasant techniques Which is celebrating a birthday. They are all secret and indiscriminately hiding mystery and indiscretion that the chef is somehow aware, and laser-H has been lashed from the chicken al-priest to eat with a dish. At this moment, the mentor – and the audience – realizes that something is severely frightening.

Menu How the hospitality industry fulfills the rich – and the kind of eligibility that is restricted between those dinner. The central plot includes Julian, which is an acquaintance of a familiar type in the kitchen, which expands its ruthless reign in the dining room, increases its guests to the extreme level of discomfort. He denies them food. He embarrasses them for his money. He sees as his VIP guests – who are unfamiliar with any kind of malnutrition in their life, this extreme, protesters are much less than cruelty – the struggle for what is happening to them. Once it becomes clear that “do you know who I am?” Julian’s employed is going to protect them from the horrors, the guests tried to find out how to make the night alive. As the audience, we are spraying our own seats, vaccinating between routing for Julian because he puts a bunch of cruel VIP in his place and a creeping feeling that he has gone far away. : Fianne pacifes Chef Julian, with a terrible undercontinent. Anger.

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In a course simply called “the mess”, mental and physical tolls working under a chef like Julian are discovered in particularly cruel fashion. The film also indicates the spread of sexual harassment within the industry, including a scene, including a woman who denied the progression of Julian, is allowed to have accurate cruel vengeance on her body. This is the kind of revenge landscape that can some extent imagine the workers abused by their owners and colleagues. But this is a disappointing and stressful moment, a one who asks whether to really make a way to create meaningful for such violence, and a dining room is expected where the guests expect She goes to continue eating his dinner. This scene seems like a particularly pointed criticism that the restaurant industry uses stunning places and beautiful dishes that are in the form of a way to hide its abuses.

We know that working in the kitchen can be physically, and mentally, dangerous, but rarely we cope with the intestinal consequences of that danger. More than this, we often ignore methods in which the owner and chefs of the restaurant collide to hide those dangers in trying to protect their dinner, protect their friends and definitely earn money. Menu Facing the reality in a way that feels both clear and fresh: the only appropriate conclusion in an industry where workers are deeply evaluated.

Fienene played Julian as a product of his ego, urging the demand for verification through his own expectations and good reviews and urged the cash dinner cash. There are points in the film where you almost feel sorry for him, knowing that he is actually much more pathetic than Petring, but then he goes back to torture his patron rapidly. And the feeling of sympathy is disturbed. And for those patrons, don’t be surprised to see parts of themselves in these characters. Anyone who ever spends a lot of money at fancy dinner, has probably said something as annoying and pretense as any of the best lines of Tyler, and any “food” is about the taste of your food. It is blamed to take more care in how people grow and how they grow and make the butcher and prepare are treated.

By the time the night is over, the fate of the guests is sealed; It is frightening compared to the end, and is an excellent hat on an anxiety and nervousness of about two hours. Menu As a comedy, it is a horror film, one that anyone who ever works in a restaurant industry will possibly appreciate. Which one of us does not want to take matters in our hands with a particularly annoying customer? And which “food” between us is not one of them?

Menu Is On Netflix Now.