One of my favorite recent thrillers was The Menu, a darkly comedic and exciting movie about having the best and last dinner of your life. It also had a pretty clever ending that will leave you talking about it and thinking about it for a long time. Today, I want to go over The Menu's ending, its plot, and some of the themes it raises. Let's dig in. The Menu PlotThe movie opens on a dock waiting for a boat. We meet Tyler, a foodie obsessed with Hawthorn, an exclusive restaurant located on an island run by Chef Slowik.Tyler is telling all of this to his date, Margot, who is a bit more skeptical of the whole experience. They join a group of wealthy and pretentious guests on the boat and set off for a multi-course tasting menu.Once on the island, the Hawthorn workers display some unnerving cult-like attitude. It creeps Margot out but she's there so she tries to relax, even if she thinks all the pomp and circumstance is a little annoying. As the night and the meal progresses, Chef Slowik's menu takes a dark turn. Each course is accompanied by increasingly unsettling monologues from the chef. We find out his disdain for the guests and for the world and dining in general. By the time we get to the third course, the diners' past sins are printed on tortillas, and then in course four, a server kills himself to prove his loyalty. Things spiral from there as...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 13 February