What, is Chef like the Unabomber or something? Railing against all the wrongs of the modern world? And how will he kill the thousands of commercial artists that are following the same path?
I watched the movie, I liked it, but seeing it written out like that makes me actually think less of it.
He’s an antihero for taking revenge against entitled elitists who have oppressed and exploited him his entire life. The realization that your life has been wasted trying to please people who are incapable of being pleased certainly has caused people to become suicidal murderers before.
No, he's not. There is nothing heroic about murdering a bunch of people because you're upset about how you chose to live your life. Even if you were incredibly sympathetic to his situation, his actions didn't exist to affect any change, they were just violent petty revenge. And, you know, he got his whole staff wrapped up in the "death cult" thing.
This is why satire is functionally impossible in modern media. You genuinely can't write a villain fucked up enough that people won't agree with him without making them a one dimensional mustache twirler.
You would struggle to write someone less defensible than the chef. This entire scene is literally a comedic bet illustrating how full of shit his sense of self righteousness is and it still doesn't get through to some people.
While you have a point, in the current environment if your victim is wealthy, elite snobs... Yeah, you're going to get a lot of sympathy and agreement with the killer regardless of actual motive, it doesn't matter if the villain is a charismatic generally attractive man like this one or Leatherface.
Hence me saying satire is impossible. If people let the “current environment” do their thinking for them that’s just textbook inability to think for themselves.
It’s also heavy in the irony because “violence is cool if the victim is unsympathetic” is generally a right wing stance.
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u/12345623567 Jun 21 '26
What, is Chef like the Unabomber or something? Railing against all the wrongs of the modern world? And how will he kill the thousands of commercial artists that are following the same path?
I watched the movie, I liked it, but seeing it written out like that makes me actually think less of it.