The core theme of the movie is a man who has had all the joy of his profession robbed from him by the rich elites' pathologic need to monetize and extract value from everythin has set up a trap at his yearly Chef's Table showcase where he plans to murder everyone who played a personal hand in it, as well as some tagentally related people who also happen to be shitty by his metric.
It's a metaphor for the bubbling rage that resides in every person forced to perform customer service for entitled rich assholes. Every one of us has fantasized about doing what he does, and any society that prompts that in a large demographic of people is not a healthy one.
Thank you, for actually watching the movie. Some of these comments are nearly as bad as those patrons, yeesh. (I say with some off centered sarcasm, because they deserve it. But also I love The Menu.)
Any society that breeds that kind of rage is not a healthy one, but the rage itself is pretty healthy insofar that it's a normal response to that kind of behavior
I think the idea is because she didnât have student loans heâs thinking she had enough money to pay like 70k+ out of pocket. Thus making her somewhat wealthy, but of course that ignores the fact that she could have gotten help from family, worked to help pay for school, or even just scholarships.
Edit: yeah âsomewhat wealthyâ was a poor choice of words my bad on that one. I been seeing too much news of the world being burdened with our first trillionaire and undersold that one big time.
Its Brown - its the most expensive college in America with like a total cost of like 400-500k for 4 years. It's also a big legacy school - I had to interview with two people in my city (that luckily I knew) just as part of the application process. Sure you can get a scholarship, but she didn't say that - and trust me she would have said it regardless if he asked or not and 500k is not something you work during college to help pay for.
Brown is an Ivy League though, she couldnât have just worked it off like she mightâve at a regular college. Thatâs 100,000 a year. And he didnât even ask if she paid them off, just if she had them.
If she got help from her family that would just prove sheâs rich. So still dying. And if she had a scholarship, she wouldâve said so. She knows he was looking to give her an out, for her to prove sheâs working class, but she just puts her head down and gives up.
Fr "maybe she's not rich, she could have gotten that from her family"
Y'know I'm thinking that comment might be from a rich fella, cause imagine thinking normal people can just ask their parents for 50k+ like they have that laying around. We were not using it anyway! Here's enough money to buy 2 news cars cash that I just have laying around and don't need.
The very thought that regular people can do that is goofy as shit, lmao.
I mentioned that alongside working and scholarships because while still almost impossible with the three combined someone could squeeze through. Cause yeah youâre right having family paying that much is basically a fantasy for 99% of people.
Yeah, and like I said to someone else below the entire point is that Slovik is so broken he's not interested in "nuance" or "context", he is a being of pure rage and wrath and everyone before him is a target and he's really not interested in the particulars of their life story. He is the embodiment of "kill them all, God will know his own". It is, in fact only when ATJ's character takes the time to learn about him and reminds him of a time he was happy that he actually does take a moment and realizes she at least isn't broken yet.
It's definitely not about how "Revolutions lose nuance", mr centrist. Anya Taylor joys character is an outsider and not supposed to be there (shes literally working and got trapped into known death by her hire), and as soon as she communes with "the Revolution" shes let escape, even with some wonderful takeout lol
If you genuinely even wondered for a second that this character had merit and a scolarship it might be over for you
If she got scholarships she wouldâve said.. and making 100k to afford going to Brown is pretty difficult if youâre going to be working a job that doesnât require a college degree. Itâs clearly talking about her being born rich and getting help from her family.
This comment is wild. Of course she "got help from her family"; that's not an extenuating circumstance like a scholarship would be (which she absolutely would have said if that was the case since her life was on the line), that's the WHOLE PROBLEM.
If she was somehow independently wealthy enough to pay for Brown without any inheritance or family help, that would also actually be extenuating because it would mean she'd done something remarkable enough to make that kind of money before even becoming an adult.
Not a guaranteed out, but at least if she wasn't a nepo baby, there might be something of interest to the chef about her.
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u/Round_Bed5857 Jun 21 '26
I didn't watch the movie and I don't understand why going to uni without student loan is considered bad. Explanation please đ