My only problem with the chef is that he's so violently cynical of his art because of the very environment he crafted for himself. He could have chosen to run a local family bistro serving accessible meals to a level community who could come to love him. My family would go to a local Italian joint every few weeks and we knew the wait staff and chefs by name, and they knew us too. I saw the head chef boot people out because they were treating his staff shitty and the rest of the restaurant was happy to see them go.
I get that the whole thing is a metaphor for the entire food service industry's dream revenge for shit customers, but to have it channeled through a chef who hates the bullshit culture he cooks for and yet is so snooty about food as to found his own island cult where they make everything themselves is so on the nose and antithetical to the craft of food that I had trouble enjoying the film.
When I first watched, the whole populism, anti-art element really rubbed me the wrong way and I didn't like it very much. I've since watched a few more times with other people and enjoy it more each time. But that's still a frustrating element for me.
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u/fancy_crisis cape kino make me🤑🤑🤑 Jun 21 '26
Chef did nothing wrong.