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I wanna put them in a room together and see what happens
This is the most real letterboxd review I have ever made. Can’t wait for the movie to come out so people will see the vision 🙏🙏🙏
Shotout for The Menu for finally making me angry enough at restaurants to actually write this but GOD do I hate high class restaurants because they're an utter insult to cooking and food itself.
And you might think that I liked the chef but no I didn't and that's the whole point because even though he was aware of the emptiness of his clients and the emptiness of his fanatics and the utter emptiness of it all he still served small dishes, small dishes with almost no food and you might think why are small dishes bad well because food is not fucking supposed to be small it's not supposed to be consumed in one bite it's not supposed to be pretty it's supposed to FEED. food is supposed to FEED. It's not that it's artistic because big dishes big plates big food can be artistic it's not that it's complicated or that it has too many ingredients or steps because big food also has all of those things (or not, it doesn't matter here) it's the fact that is so utterly small it's INSULTING. Food is supposed to feed people that's why people have hunted have cultivated have cared since we were able to feed.
Because what was being served wasn't food and wasn't art it was emptiness, it was praise, it was fame and it was adoration and it was empty. And I can only think of all the animals and plants and fish that died for those dishes and instead of receiving purpose all they got was a spit to the face and a name with too many letters. For ages there have been sorrys, and thank yous in all languages and in all manners whispered to their ears as they died because humans understood that they were taking for a purpose, because they took to feed or to enjoy or to celebrate and those small dishes? are an insult to it all. A depraved performance that the rich and the famous take part in not even for their amusement because god knows they hate the food half of the time and the other half it's not even good.
The only part of the movie where we see actual passion put in cooking is when the chef makes a burger with fries. A normal burger with fries, the size a normal burger with fries should be. No weird minuscule additions worth a million, no weird presentations worth enough to buy 10 houses, just a regular burger. The only time where we see actual food, actual passion, is when we see food made to be ate, food made to feed. Food not in concept but in practice.