I watched The Menu a few weeks back and it’s still haunting me. I only saw it once but I have whole scenes memorized just because I keep going over them in my head.
The movie touched a nerve, and not just for me. A lot of my friends saw it on my recommendation and loved it too, including a professional chef working in high end restaurants.
I’m on a discord server based around wargaming (like simulating the staff work and planning in set piece military campaigns, not like video games- like old school war nerd stuff) and the last film we bonded over like this was Death of Stalin. People have been adapting monologues from the Menu for their own chosen profession. One American Lieutenant stationed in Germany hating his life appropriated Jeremy Louden’s “The Mess” to apply to his own disenchantment with Army life.
Anyway, thought I’d mention it. It feels like the movie is spreading by word of mouth so I’m just doing my part by helping it along.
I’m kind of a McDonagh stan and I loved that takedown piece. Guy makes some great points, particularly the bit about being an “Irish” writer in the same vein as a “romance” writer, “sci-fi” writer, etc.
interesting that the takedown of McDonagh was identity based (as in he's not even Irish). personally I'm sick of this line of attack - creativity, art and imagination belong to us all
I watched The Menu a few weeks back and it’s still haunting me. I only saw it once but I have whole scenes memorized just because I keep going over them in my head.
The movie touched a nerve, and not just for me. A lot of my friends saw it on my recommendation and loved it too, including a professional chef working in high end restaurants.
I’m on a discord server based around wargaming (like simulating the staff work and planning in set piece military campaigns, not like video games- like old school war nerd stuff) and the last film we bonded over like this was Death of Stalin. People have been adapting monologues from the Menu for their own chosen profession. One American Lieutenant stationed in Germany hating his life appropriated Jeremy Louden’s “The Mess” to apply to his own disenchantment with Army life.
Anyway, thought I’d mention it. It feels like the movie is spreading by word of mouth so I’m just doing my part by helping it along.
I’m kind of a McDonagh stan and I loved that takedown piece. Guy makes some great points, particularly the bit about being an “Irish” writer in the same vein as a “romance” writer, “sci-fi” writer, etc.
interesting that the takedown of McDonagh was identity based (as in he's not even Irish). personally I'm sick of this line of attack - creativity, art and imagination belong to us all
I second the rec of the McDonagh piece, as you said it is really thoughtful even though I don’t agree with it