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The Menu

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The Menu	label	The Menu
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The Menu	comment	The Menu is a 2022 Psychological Thriller/Black Comedy film directed by Mark Mylod (Ali G Indahouse, Succession) and produced by Adam McKay and Will Ferrell. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, and John Leguizamo.The film follows Margot (Taylor-Joy) and Tyler (Hoult), a young couple traveling to a remote island to dine at Hawthorn, an exclusive restaurant with a menu specially curated by its enigmatic head chef, Julian Slowik (Fiennes). Naturally, all is not as it seems, as it soon becomes apparent that each guest has been carefully selected to witness Slowik and his team of cooks put together what will be their final menu.The Menu released in theaters November 18th, 2022.Previews: Teaser, Trailer, Clip 1
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The Menu / int_1161865	type	Convenient Escape Boat
The Menu / int_1161865	comment	Convenient Escape Boat: Subverted. During his escape, one of the male guests actually finds a boat by the shore but gets caught by the staff before embarking on it.
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The Menu / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Menu / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Much of Chef Slowik's character and backstory is a loving satire of Gordon Ramsay, including his abusive childhood, brigade-style kitchen, penchant for calling people "donkey," and tendency to fly into rages only to abruptly calm down moments later.
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The Menu / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Menu / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: When the male guests are captured after their brief chance to escape, Ted is found last because he's too scared to run. So he hides. In a coop. With the other chickens.
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The Menu / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
The Menu / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Richard gets his ring finger cut off in Yubitsume style when he tries to exit the dinner early. Each gift bag distributed to the diners include one of Doug Verrick's fingers.
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The Menu / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
The Menu / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Shortly after learning (from the man himself before allowing her to stab him in the leg) that Julian had sexually harassed the sous-chef Katherine, Lillian attempts to convince her that she doesn't have to go through with the night's agenda that ends with everyone there, both guests and staff, dead simply because he's forcing her to. Katherine then cheerfully reveals that the everybody dying part was actually her idea. Hearing this, Lillian sighs and pours herself another glass of wine, while others instantly join her.
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The Menu / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
The Menu / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: While Julian's explanation for why he wants to punish and kill the Hawthorn guests is fairly clear, the film leaves a number of loose threads regarding whether there was a specific event (or events) that pushed him over the edge and convinced his kitchen staff to go along with it. Katherine's description of Julian sexually harassing her, her claiming credit for the idea to kill everyone, and the picture of Julian's family in his sparse office all imply that something may have happened in the chef's personal life and/or that he is serving as something of a figurehead, but neither idea is further explored. Chef Slowik tells Margot to fetch a barrel of an ingredient for the final course, saying that Elsa forgot to assign someone to do that. Elsa, fearful that he's trying to replace her with Margot, attacks her with a knife in Slowik's house, insisting to her last breath that she wasn't told about the barrel to begin with. It's unclear who is telling the truth. Margot asks Elsa about what is behind a silver door in Hawthorn near the bathroom and is ominously told that it holds something "special". While Margot opens the replica of the door in Julian's home copy of the restaurant (it leads to his personal office), we never see what's behind the "real" door. This may be an invokedOrphaned Reference to the original script's ending (see the Trivia page).
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The Menu / int_2034121a	type	Eat the Rich
The Menu / int_2034121a	comment	Eat the Rich: Chef Julian's primary motivation is to exact revenge on the people who have made his life a stressful hell without even properly appreciating his food and most of his elite clientele are shown to be rather contemptible. Since Julian himself is very wealthy, and parts of the menu extend to punishing himself, the ethos extends to him as well.
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The Menu / int_204fb326	type	Yubitsume
The Menu / int_204fb326	comment	Richard gets his ring finger cut off in Yubitsume style when he tries to exit the dinner early.
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The Menu / int_212dff47	type	Haute Cuisine Is Weird
The Menu / int_212dff47	comment	Most of the dishes play with this trope; while a dedicated foodie like Tyler would probably find Slowik's food gorgeous, to the average diner it comes off looking more like sculpture. Interesting to look at and presented to perfection, but not necessarily teasing the palate.
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The Menu / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Menu / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The entire movie of course, but shout out to Jeremy's suicide followed by a display of his personalized meal "The Mess" which lists all of the ingredients like the previous meals followed by "R.I.P. Jeremy Louden".
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The Menu / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Menu / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The framed photo in Chef Julian's house give Margot the information she needs to survive the night, as it portrayed him when he was a young, ordinary, but ultimately happy line cook at a burger joint. Margot invokes this by asking Julian to prepare her a cheeseburger, which touches him so much that he lets her go in the end.
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The Menu / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Menu / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: A non-verbal example. Chef Julian signals the beginning of each course by loudly clapping his hands a single time. Margot does the same thing at the film's climax to catch his attention and give a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
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The Menu / int_246c9dc5	type	Unknown Rival
The Menu / int_246c9dc5	comment	Unknown Rival: Elsa to Margot. From the moment Margot arrives and is noted to be not who they were expecting, Elsa is openly hostile to her. This only gets worse as Chef Slowik seems to take an interest in her. It comes to a boiling point when the Chef declares Margot is "one of them" and demeans Elsa in front of her. Elsa attempts to kill Margot, declaring that the other woman will "never replace her", though Margot has no interest in replacing Elsa and just wants to leave.
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The Menu / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Menu / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When Margot leaves the restaurant in the finale, Slowik's mother can be seen passed out at her table, a couple scenes before the camera focuses on her.
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The Menu / int_27b94f39	type	Serendipitous Survival
The Menu / int_27b94f39	comment	Serendipitous Survival: An offscreen example. Tyler's girlfriend dumping him prevents her from accompanying him to the island, keeping her away from the demented Chef Slowik and almost certainly saving her life.
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The Menu / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
The Menu / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The entire movie takes place over the course of about 4-5 hours one evening.
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The Menu / int_2a80d327	type	Slipknot Ponytail
The Menu / int_2a80d327	comment	Slipknot Ponytail: Margot's low bun updo hairstyle comes undone when Elsa is trying to kill her in Julian's house, leaving Margot to spend the second half of the movie with her long red hair down.
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The Menu / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
The Menu / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: After spending the majority of the film being a condescending, uncaring, self-interested, and self-congratulatory waste of skin, Tyler undergoes one. He's outed by Chef Slowik for knowing that everyone would die, but not only keeping quiet out of egregious personal interest but hiring a prostitute, Margot, to bring into the lion's den after his girlfriend dumped him—which is callous at best, an act of violence against a sex worker at worst—simply because Hawthorn doesn't seat single diners. He's nearly torn apart by an (understandably) enraged Margot. He is savagely humiliated by Chef Slowik when he's forced to improvise a dish and ends up serving an unpalatable mess, showing that for all his pretentious knowledge of haute cuisine, he doesn't have a clue how to actually cook a decent meal. Finally, Slowik whispers something in his ear that hammers the final nail in the coffin. After those incidents, Tyler is only a watery-eyed shell of a man who takes his own life in the back of the kitchen. Almost every one of the patrons has a degree of obnoxious superiority. By the end, they are so broken and devoid of arrogance by Chef Slowik's psychological and emotional torment that when they're about to be incinerated, they not only accept their fate, but some of them also thank Chef Slowik for giving them what they "deserve".
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The Menu / int_2bdfcf74	type	OffscreenVillainDarkMatter
The Menu / int_2bdfcf74	comment	Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: The diners realise that things are going wrong when Chef Slowik serves them tacos laser printed with evidence of their misdeeds. The restaurant critic gets a clipping of a review that closed another restaurant. Easy enough to get. A rich old married man gets a photo of him with a young woman who is not his wife. Possible, if not easy. The finance bros get a bank statement with evidence of fraud. One of them says "This is a taco that will stand up in court." We are not told how Slowik managed to get his hands on such a thing.
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The Menu / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
The Menu / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: While there are a few hiccups here and there, Slowik's plan to kill himself, his staff, and his guests more or less goes off without a hitch. Margot only survives because he chooses to spare her in the end.
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The Menu / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Menu / int_319e4a2f	comment	Combined with Even Evil Has Standards, it's made clear that unexpected deviations are against Julian's professional ethos, but he interrupts the service unprompted to humiliate Tyler after revealing that Tyler knowingly brought an innocent person with him to die.
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The Menu / int_34260591	type	Impromptu Tracheotomy
The Menu / int_34260591	comment	Impromptu Tracheotomy: How Margot kills Elsa after their struggle in Julian's house.
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The Menu / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
The Menu / int_37cb353b	comment	Ate His Gun: Jeremy does so to begin "The Mess", representing the moment the dinner goes from somewhat awkward theater to pure chaos. The staff even prepared for the bloody mess left behind by the suicide method by pulling out a plastic sheet at the exact moment of the shot to shield the kitchen.
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The Menu / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Menu / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: When Julian sets the restaurant on fire at the end of the film to kill everyone, he, his staff, and the by now thoroughly-broken guests quietly sit and let the flames take them.
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The Menu / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
The Menu / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Chef Julian correctly deduces that Margot is lying about her name and that she is working-class, like himself and his staff.
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The Menu / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
The Menu / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Chef Julian gives Margot one by having her leave the restaurant to go retrieve a barrel without supervision. She ends up going to his cottage, where she finds a radio in his office and calls for help. After a brief Hope Spot, it turns out that the person she called actually works for him. He then accuses her of breaking their "sacred bond of trust" and deems her a "taker" and she fails the test. But then it turns out that, thanks to a photograph she saw in his office, she passes his test and lives.
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The Menu / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
The Menu / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: In recognition of the fact that she wasn't supposed to be there, Slowik offers Margot the choice of dying with the staff or dying as a guest. Margot asserts out that the choice is meaningless since both involve her dying, an unacceptable outcome, though Slowik disagrees.
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The Menu / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Menu / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Margot manages to escape with a sense of triumph over Slowik and a delicious cheeseburger to boot, but she is the Final Girl. At least the cheeseburger that saved her life was only $9.95, as opposed to the others paying $1,250...and with their lives.
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The Menu / int_411e652e	type	Broken Smile
The Menu / int_411e652e	comment	Broken Smile: Chef Julian gives a wide-eyed, manic grin just before he lights Hawthorn, his staff, his guests, and himself, on fire.
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The Menu / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
The Menu / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: A nonverbal example, at the very end: after escaping the island and watching the restaurant go up in flames, Margot pulls out a copy of Julianâ€™s menu- his magnum opus- and wipes her mouth with it like a napkin. While she understands the â€œwhyâ€� of Julianâ€™s menu, it doesnâ€™t change the fact that he just killed dozens of people and himself over his own dissatisfaction.
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The Menu / int_46729cc8	type	Bread of Survival
The Menu / int_46729cc8	comment	Bread of Survival: During the bread course of the dinner, Chef Slowik speaks of the culture history and religious significance of breadâ€¦ before telling his diners they won't get any before presenting them with only the traditional accompaniments. This is both an insult to them and foreshadowing that he plans to kill them all. Notably, only protagonist Margot gets any bread near the end of the film in the form of the bun on a cheeseburger — she is the film's only survivor.
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The Menu / int_471a505f	type	Four Is Death
The Menu / int_471a505f	comment	Four Is Death: The Fourth Course, "The Mess," is introduced with the choreographed suicide of the sous chef who prepared it. The Fourth Course is also the point of the meal where people start dying.
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The Menu / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Menu / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Hawthorn is set on a beautiful island, and the camera lovingly captures its landscape.
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The Menu / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Menu / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Early on, Tyler makes a big deal about noticing the PacoJet the cooks are using. Later, Margot uses the machine to briefly incapacitate Elsa.
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The Menu / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Menu / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Throughout the film, the guests seem strangely resigned to their fate to facilitate the film's satire and dark humor and prevent the plot from devolving into a series of physical confrontations. In the end, Julian notes that the guests haven't made as much of an effort to escape as you might expect.
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The Menu / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
The Menu / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: The opening credits state "Searchlight Pictures invites you to experience The Menu", as opposed to simply "Searchlight Pictures presents The Menu".
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The Menu / int_4d0f7f79	type	Employee of the Month
The Menu / int_4d0f7f79	comment	Employee of the Month: Not surprisingly, a young Julian was this at the fast food restaurant he started his career at. Judging by where his photo is placed in his office, it may still be his proudest accomplishment.
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The Menu / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
The Menu / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: When Elsa tries to kill Margot with a knife, the latter takes advantage of the fact that she's in a fully-equipped kitchen and uses the environment plus whatever she can lay her hands on to fight back. Starting with a grille that Elsa manages to dodge, followed by rolling over the center island to put an obstruction between them, then a log that knocks her off her feet, and finally a PacoJet to the head that disorients her enough for Margot to overpower and kill her.
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The Menu / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Menu / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: The reveal of Margot's true profession: Earlier than that, the reveal of Slowik's dinner plan: And the reveal of Tyler's foreknowledge, which only serves to further his Jerkassery: Assuming she's telling the truth, Elsa's last words to Margot before being killed by her implies that Margot is being shaped up to play a major role in Slowik's performance.
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The Menu / int_4f4e43cc	type	Always Second Best
The Menu / int_4f4e43cc	comment	"The Mess" dish opens with Jeremy blowing his brains out because he's been thoroughly convinced that despite years of hard work, he'll never be as good as Chef Julian. Of course, while Jeremy envies Julian's fame and prestige, he completely misses how that very same fame and notoriety has made Julian's life miserable.
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The Menu / int_506ffa51	type	Tears of Joy
The Menu / int_506ffa51	comment	Tears of Joy: Slowik has these in his eyes as he prepares Margot's order (and his final cooked meal): a simple cheeseburger and fries.
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The Menu / int_507ac08d	type	Blunt "No"
The Menu / int_507ac08d	comment	Blunt "No": Elsa's nonchalant answer to the request for bread from one of the tables.
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The Menu / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Menu / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Of all the guests there, Slowik's reason for choosing George Diaz is one of the most deliciously petty - he watched George's movie Calling Dr. Sunshine on one of his rare days off, hated it and developed a rather virulent grudge over that. When Diaz wonders why Slowik is targeting his assistant Felicity, Slowik responds by asking her what college she went to (Brown) and whether she has any student debt (she doesn't), then flatly states that she's going to die. Even if she is a taker who offers nothing of value in returnnote She has a debt-free degree from an Ivy League school, and what did she do with it? She became a personal assistant to a washed up movie star. She attempts to quit for another job, but doesn't actually have any idea what that job entails or what its purpose serves. She wants it because it sounds prestigious. And near the end of the menu, she blatantly admits that she was repeatedly stealing from George; they both were aware of what was happening and he just let her, which is a very stealthy Take That! to society on its own. She had plenty of advantages but kept taking just because she knew she could., the fact that he chooses to bring this up when questioned very much gives off the impression that he's targeting her for murder primarily for being born into privilege.
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The Menu / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
The Menu / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Julian had a rigged radionote A Citizens Band radio, which is the wrong application, set to channel 16 making it highly unlikely to be monitored or received by either the Coast Guard or the police. in his private cabin and a phony Coast Guard officer on standby on the off chance that one of the patrons managed to get into his cabin and tried calling for help.
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The Menu / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Menu / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The film opens with a shot of the flame of Margot's cigarette lighter. It ends with the restaurant in flames.
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The Menu / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Menu / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Elsa serves as this to Slowik, being a highly competent and devoted enforcer of his will.
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The Menu / int_543a0278	type	Villain Respect
The Menu / int_543a0278	comment	Villain Respect: Slowik without a doubt shows it — even if not right away — to Margot for how she not only is not a rich, privileged snob and that she also works in a very beleaguered and put-down service job, but how she manages to command the same presence and level that he does, call him out on his own clear disillusionment and lack of passion, and then reignite the inspiration within him by asking for a humble cheeseburgerâ€”to the point that he's clearly grateful and lets her walk out alive.
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The Menu / int_5973fab5	type	Does Not Like Spam
The Menu / int_5973fab5	comment	Does Not Like Spam: Julian does not mince words when he mentions his loathing of s'mores.
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The Menu / int_5a6bf62f	type	Happiness in Minimum Wage
The Menu / int_5a6bf62f	comment	Happiness in Minimum Wage: The last time Slowik was genuinely happy was when he worked as a fry cook at a burger joint. Margot learning this is what allows her to survive the night.
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The Menu / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
The Menu / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: After Jeremy's grisly death, Slowik and his staff pacify the guests by insisting that the events are "all part of the menu", leading them to draw the conclusion that it's All Part of the Show. The deaths, however are very real, and the night only becomes more hectic from then on.
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The Menu / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
The Menu / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: In the middle of his speech for the "Angel Investor" course, Chef Julian mentions one of the many things he hates about Doug Verrick. Justified, as he was shouting through a pane of bulletproof and (mostly) soundproof glass:
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The Menu / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
The Menu / int_5f146203	comment	Tyler's Dissonant Serenity in the face of all the chaos makes a lot more sense when we learn that he was told ahead of time that no one was getting out of Hawthorn alive.
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The Menu / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Menu / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Margot is not supposed to be at the dinner and her very presence throws off the meticulously planned event. It ultimately doesn't change Julian's plan and even gives him one last happy moment.
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The Menu / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Menu / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Subtle, but right before Julian sets the room on fire and makes one last call out to his staff, even all the guests who are about to die shout back "We love you, chef!", apparently broken by the night's events and their imminent deaths.
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The Menu / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
The Menu / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: The bulk of the movie takes place at the Hawthorn, Slowik's restaurant. The guests are treated as hostages, so they can't leave unless in a handful of scenes, including the beginning, where they arrive on the island and are treated to a tour on the way to the restaurant and a scene where the men are given a chance to flee. Even the scene in Slowik's home is a place that is meant to be exactly similar to the Hawthorn, except empty.
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The Menu / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
The Menu / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Julian's issue with Richard and Anne is that even though they've dined at Hawthorn eleven times, they can't remember a single dish they've eaten. They're so privileged that they can semi-frequent a place normal people would be lucky to even visit once, and despite this fact (or, in fact, because of it), they have no actual appreciation for it whatsoever.
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The Menu / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
The Menu / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye: Julianâ€™s investor, Doug Verrickâ€™s only time onscreen is spent being drowned to death in the ocean.
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The Menu / int_6a58cb64	type	Sommelier Speak
The Menu / int_6a58cb64	comment	Sommelier Speak: Hawthorn's resident sommelier plays this completely straight ... and continues to do so long after the dinner has derailed into chaos.
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The Menu / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Menu / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Aside from the one about the purpose of the night's dinner, we also learn that: Richard once hired Margot/Erin for her sexual services, requesting that she role-play as his dead daughter. Margot isn't Tyler's girlfriend, but an escort he hired — and her name isn't Margot. It's Erin. She isn't from Grand Island, Nebraska, but actually Brockton, Massachusetts. Tyler knew going into the night's dinner that Chef Julian didn't plan on leaving any of them alive, and he brought an escort to go with him because Hawthorn doesn't allow single diners.
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The Menu / int_6b750ec9	type	I Am a Monster
The Menu / int_6b750ec9	comment	I Am a Monster: Julian thinks this of himself as revealed in a discussion with Margot. He's basically right.
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The Menu / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Menu / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: "The Mess" dish opens with Jeremy blowing his brains out because he's been thoroughly convinced that despite years of hard work, he'll never be as good as Chef Julian. Of course, while Jeremy envies Julian's fame and prestige, he completely misses how that very same fame and notoriety has made Julian's life miserable. After being humiliated by Chef Julian, Tyler is so devastated that he hangs himself in a supply closet. Since he was the only guest who knew the nature of the evening beforehand, it's possible this was always his intention. The entire dinner is an elaborate buildup for Chef Julian, deeply dissatisfied with the course of his life and career, to kill himself along with everyone else still alive and present at Hawthorn. The rest of his kitchen staff willingly join him.
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The Menu / int_6fb5637d	type	Devastating Remark
The Menu / int_6fb5637d	comment	Devastating Remark: Chef Slowik whispers into Tyler's ear something disparaging after the latter's terrible cook. This causes Tyler to hang himself.
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The Menu / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Menu / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Though surrounded by people trying to kill her, Margot abandons the knife she found once she gets inside Julian's home, allowing Elsa to take it and add more danger to their fight.
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The Menu / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
The Menu / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: Margot figuring out the why of Slowik's menu and his dissatisfaction with molecular gastronomy, coupled with her asking him to make her a regular cheeseburger — knowing that one of his few happy memories was from when he was a cook at a burger joint — is what results in Slowik sparing her life.
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The Menu / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Menu / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "You shouldn't be here" from several members of the staff, including Chef Slowik himself, to Margot. At first, it implies that, because she's Tyler's replacement date, they were expecting the woman on the actual reservation, especially since she knows nothing about molecular gastronomy. It's soon revealed that Margot has her own secrets, including relationships with the other diners, which make her a lot more similar to the staff of Hawthorn.
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The Menu / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Menu / int_74f57438	comment	Cell Phones Are Useless: It's mentioned that there is no phone service on the island and thus no way to call for help when people start getting hurt.
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The Menu / int_7c1aa49f	type	Orphaned Reference
The Menu / int_7c1aa49f	comment	Margot asks Elsa about what is behind a silver door in Hawthorn near the bathroom and is ominously told that it holds something "special". While Margot opens the replica of the door in Julian's home copy of the restaurant (it leads to his personal office), we never see what's behind the "real" door. This may be an invokedOrphaned Reference to the original script's ending (see the Trivia page).
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The Menu / int_7c82a67c	type	Snooty Haute Cuisine
The Menu / int_7c82a67c	comment	Snooty Haute Cuisine: Slowik laments that his exquisitely prepared haute cuisine is only eaten by the wealthy as a status symbol. It's why he's got a grudge against the Leibrandts, who have paid thousands of dollars to eat at his exclusive restaurant eleven times in the past five years and can't remember anything they ate during any of those visits. Preparing a cheeseburger for the working-class Margot finally brings back some genuine emotion in his cooking.
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The Menu / int_7cc3f425	type	Moment of Silence
The Menu / int_7cc3f425	comment	Moment of Silence: After Jeremy kills himself, Julian and the kitchen staff observe a brief one before serving Jeremy's dish "The Mess" (although this might not be so much as a sign of respect; they might be standing still so they do not enter the trajectory of the bullet).
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The Menu / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Menu / int_7d89315b	comment	Margot, after everything has hit the fan and Chef Julian has decided that she deserves to die with the guests after all, calls him out on his hypocrisy and declares she's still hungry. She then orders a traditional cheeseburger and fries (the one and only thing that Julian still enjoys preparing). Then asks for it to go. And it works.
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The Menu / int_868a972f	type	Quiet Cry for Help
The Menu / int_868a972f	comment	Quiet Cry for Help: Instead of giving the coast guard an autograph, George writes "HELP US" on the card.
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The Menu / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Menu / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The primary conflict is between a cult of murderous cooks and a mix of snobby social elites and white-collar criminals, of whom only Tyler generally comes off as deserving of their misfortune.
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The Menu / int_87a38662	type	Murder-Suicide
The Menu / int_87a38662	comment	Murder-Suicide: The true nature of Chef Julian's dinner. He finds his life so miserable that he wants to end it, and he intends to take down the members of the entitled elite who drove him to such a state. Tyler hired Margot to be his plus-one, despite knowing from the very beginning that the dinner would end in both of their deaths along with everyone else.
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The Menu / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
The Menu / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent? Julian speaks with an odd combination of American Upper-Class Twit and vaguely European accent. It might be a bit of Fridge Brilliance since earlier he had indicated that he grew up in Iowa, a state with a very neutral accent, so he likely acquired an accent that would be appealing to his wealthy clientele.
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The Menu / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Menu / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Tyler gets one in rapid succession once his role in the menu is exposed by Julian. It starts with Margot punching him in the face (and would've continued if she hadn't been pulled off him), immediately following with Julian humiliating him in the kitchen by making him cook and finally driving him to suicide.
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The Menu / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Menu / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The diners at Hawthorn are all wealthy and entitled people. Except Margot, a working-class escort whose worst sin is a few snide comments here and there.
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The Menu / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Menu / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The myth of Tantalus is subtly referenced throughout the film. The silver door that hides Julian's secret room has a Greek-esque image of a figure surrounded by what looks like flowering plants, yet his face looks fixed in horror. This alludes to how Tantalus was punished to always be within reach of food and water, but could never touch it. Julian's dinner as a whole also alludes to how Tantalus served dinner to the Olympians, and served them his own son to show they were not true gods. Except instead of gods, Julian is trying to make his point to the rich elite, who are completely powerless to stop him without their resources. And lastly, both Julian and Margot are service workers who no longer feel pleasure and happiness from their jobs, also symbolizing the punishment of Tantalus. Near the end of the film, the myth is directly named when Margot sees that Julian's career kick-started in a restaurant named Tantalus. Richard has his ring finger cut off, shortly after proof of his infidelity is revealed. Katherine Keller stabs Slowik in the same place Slowik stabbed his abusive father.
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The Menu / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Menu / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Whatever Julian whispered to Tyler that caused him to hang himself immediately after is never revealed. Only the two of them know.
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The Menu / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
The Menu / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Much of Margot and Tyler's early conversations take on an entirely different light when it's revealed that they are not a couple, and Margot is an escort he hired. From Margot cheerfully commenting that Tyler is paying (not just for the meal, as originally implied), to Tyler lamenting that he hadn't spent time with women like Margot before, their dialogue is peppered with double-meanings and foreshadowing. Tyler crying after Chef's introductory speech takes on a different context knowing the reveal that no one is supposed to make it out of the dinner alive, which Tyler knows about. As such, his seemingly overblown reaction to Chef's comments on the brevity of human life seems much more genuine.
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The Menu / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Menu / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Chef Slowik sees Margot, the working-girl escort that has been forced into this situation despite her date Tyler knowing he was bringing her along to die, as similar to all of the hard-working staff of Hawthorn that are forced to give up parts of themselves to provide temporary pleasure to the rich.
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The Menu / int_99a7aa94	type	Seven Deadly Sins
The Menu / int_99a7aa94	comment	Seven Deadly Sins: John Leguizamo mentioned in an interview that each table can be read in this way: Envy (wannabe chef Tyler), Gluttony (Julian's alcoholic mother), Greed (the finance bros), Lust (the adulterous Richard), Pride (the snobby critics), Sloth (paycheck actor George), and Wrath (Julian and the kitchen)
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The Menu / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Menu / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Much of Margot and Tyler's early conversations take on an entirely different light when it's revealed that they are not a couple, and Margot is an escort he hired. From Margot cheerfully commenting that Tyler is paying (not just for the meal, as originally implied), to Tyler lamenting that he hadn't spent time with women like Margot before, their dialogue is peppered with double-meanings and foreshadowing.
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The Menu / int_9f00986d	type	Gut Punch
The Menu / int_9f00986d	comment	Gut Punch: The sous chef's suicide marks the harsh transition from what appears to be a drama movie into a Psychological Thriller.
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The Menu / int_9fe32829	type	Helpless Observer Protagonist
The Menu / int_9fe32829	comment	Helpless Observer Protagonist: Even Margot, the most active of the guests in trying to escape, spends most of the movie as helpless as everyone else. Slowik claims they might have escaped if they'd made more of an effort, but the staff easily overpower Richard when he tries early on, so it's debatable whether Slowik actually believes this, or is simply messing with them.
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The Menu / int_a03509ce	type	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With
The Menu / int_a03509ce	comment	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With: The three employees of Doug Verrick try to pressure Elsa into giving them bread by invoking their connection to Verrick. She knows this already and doesn't care.
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The Menu / int_a08199ec	type	The Dog Was the Mastermind
The Menu / int_a08199ec	comment	The Dog Was the Mastermind: It's kept intentionally ambiguous in a way that only adds to the insanity, but apparently Katherine, the chef Slowik sexually harassed, came up with the idea of the ritualistic murder-suicide that would kill her, Slowik, her co-workers, and the wealthy guests. If that's the truth or simply another obscurity to mess with the patrons' (and audiences') heads, it's impossible to say.
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The Menu / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
The Menu / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Invoked by Margot. When Tyler reacts with astonishment that one of Julian's cooks knew his name, she notes that he neglected to ask the chef's name in return. He waves this off as unimportant. He doesn't know her last name either, and his overall treatment of her is quite poor, even before we find out that he knowingly sentenced her to death by bringing her to Hawthorn. The rest of the diners are no better, particularly the finance bros, who openly antagonize Elsa and demand food that's not on the menu from the very start (before the night's true nature is revealed).
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The Menu / int_a426ae28	type	Multiple-Choice Past
The Menu / int_a426ae28	comment	Multiple-Choice Past: Julian states at one point that he grew up in Iowa, and at another point that he grew up in Slovakia. However the prized picture he has of himself as a Burger Fool in his teens strongly indicates he is almost certainly American, or at least was living in America by then.
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The Menu / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Menu / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Julian's "Memory" course explanation starts with a funny "Taco Tuesday" memory premise... only to be followed by a story of how his young self stabbed his drunk father in the thigh with a kitchen scissor when the latter wrapped a phone chord around his mother's neck.
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The Menu / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Menu / int_a8559a9f	comment	At one point, Julian is unintentionally on the receiving end when he reveals to George that the only reason why he's there is because George was the star of Calling Doctor Sunshine, and Julian watched the bad movie on one of his very rare (like, once every three months) days off. When George points out that he didn't write the movie, Julian dismisses this by saying he still took the role for profit, losing his touch as an artist. This is almost identical to Real Life harassment and death threats levied at actors for being in a movie or show that fans didn't like, so the film essentially compares these types of "fans" to a self-centered, narcissistic perfectionist. It's also a Hypocrisy Nod, as Margot points out that nothing he's been doing to cater to his wealthy clients has been done with love or passion, either. Even worse, while Julian has come to hate cooking, George still loves acting in a way Julian can't enjoy cooking anymore, and his few comments on Dr. Sunshine suggest he has fond memories of a good time and a fun shoot even if everyone knew it was a turkey.
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The Menu / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Menu / int_a8a04f6f	comment	The myth of Tantalus is subtly referenced throughout the film. The silver door that hides Julian's secret room has a Greek-esque image of a figure surrounded by what looks like flowering plants, yet his face looks fixed in horror. This alludes to how Tantalus was punished to always be within reach of food and water, but could never touch it. Julian's dinner as a whole also alludes to how Tantalus served dinner to the Olympians, and served them his own son to show they were not true gods. Except instead of gods, Julian is trying to make his point to the rich elite, who are completely powerless to stop him without their resources. And lastly, both Julian and Margot are service workers who no longer feel pleasure and happiness from their jobs, also symbolizing the punishment of Tantalus. Near the end of the film, the myth is directly named when Margot sees that Julian's career kick-started in a restaurant named Tantalus.
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The Menu / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Menu / int_a8f905e3	comment	While Rome Burns: At the very end of the movie, Margot watches Hawthorn burn in the distance ... Then takes another big bite of her cheeseburger. She's still hungry.
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The Menu / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Menu / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Midway through the film, Julian notes that cooks' hands are virtually fireproof, demonstrating by holding his hand over a candle flame and then snuffing it with his fingers. In the end, he holds a burning ember in his fist, which he uses to set the "s'mores" alight.
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The Menu / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Menu / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: George gives a final one when he realizes that he's about to be set on fire along with everyone else.
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The Menu / int_b14836af	type	JustAFleshWound
The Menu / int_b14836af	comment	Just a Flesh Wound: About halfway through the movie, Chef Julian as set up for one of the meals allows the female chef in his employ that he had been sexually harassing in the past to stab him in the thigh. He does limp somewhat afterwards, but not as much as might be expected for an untreated stab wound.
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The Menu / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Menu / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The film gleefully takes aim at food snobs and influencers. Tyler comes across as quite pretentious as he takes pictures of his food, goes on about mouthfeel, and gushes about the extremely private restaurant they are going to. Once Chef Julian forces him to cook something himself, he fumbles completely and makes a dish aptly titled "Tyler's Bullshit", which is just a mess of unwashed and badly chopped leek, shallot, butter and undercooked lamb. The wealthy and privileged are also in the film's line of fire. When George asks why Felicity, his assistant, is marked for death, it emerges that she went to Brown, with no student debt. Slowik immediately tells her "I'm sorry; you're dying". At one point, Julian is unintentionally on the receiving end when he reveals to George that the only reason why he's there is because George was the star of Calling Doctor Sunshine, and Julian watched the bad movie on one of his very rare (like, once every three months) days off. When George points out that he didn't write the movie, Julian dismisses this by saying he still took the role for profit, losing his touch as an artist. This is almost identical to Real Life harassment and death threats levied at actors for being in a movie or show that fans didn't like, so the film essentially compares these types of "fans" to a self-centered, narcissistic perfectionist. It's also a Hypocrisy Nod, as Margot points out that nothing he's been doing to cater to his wealthy clients has been done with love or passion, either. Even worse, while Julian has come to hate cooking, George still loves acting in a way Julian can't enjoy cooking anymore, and his few comments on Dr. Sunshine suggest he has fond memories of a good time and a fun shoot even if everyone knew it was a turkey.
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The Menu / int_b96831b8	type	Onscreen Chapter Titles
The Menu / int_b96831b8	comment	Onscreen Chapter Titles: Each course is introduced with its name and details onscreen.
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The Menu / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
The Menu / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Margot is dumbfounded when she breaks into Julian's cabin and finds that it's designed to look exactly like the interior of Hawthorn (plus a bed in the dining area).
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The Menu / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Menu / int_bb18a227	comment	The very fact that Julian informed Tyler ahead of time what was going to happen implies that he was trying to spare someone he thought was merely an overenthusiastic fan and it was only after he revealed just how vile and selfish a person he was that Julian decided to include him among the victims.
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The Menu / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Menu / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Delivered by Margot at the film's climax.
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The Menu / int_bd6bde69	type	Villain Reveals the Secret
The Menu / int_bd6bde69	comment	Villain Reveals the Secret: Between courses, Slowik pauses the menu specifically to expose Tyler for knowing he was planning to kill everyone and not only coming anyway but hiring a prostitute to fill in for his ex-girlfriend.
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The Menu / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
The Menu / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: What happens to Tyler after Julian humiliates him in the kitchen. He whispers something in his ear that leaves him completely broken and leads him to hang himself. How Margot manages to escape Hawthorn. After discovering Slowik's only happy memory is being a line cook in a restaurant, she manages to play to his ego by stating nothing he made that night was "made with love", and convinces him to prepare, not anything fancy, but a basic cheeseburger. He eventually does so and lets her leave with her order "to go" when she experiences true happiness at having something that Slowik actually enjoyed cooking for her. As such, she's the only member of the cast that survives to see the credits roll.
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The Menu / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
The Menu / int_bfb5f597	comment	Money Is Not Power: The patrons, with the exception of the working-class Margot, who either have a lot of money or connections, are all at the mercy of Chef Julian and his staff.
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The Menu / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Menu / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Invoked by Julian. Margot manages to call in help from the Coast Guard, and George manages to slip a message to the officer, who draws a gun on Julian ... and then it turns out that he's on Julian's payroll, and was just putting on an act to mess with everyone. Later, after Margot is allowed to leave, chef Julian announces that payment is due and that gift bags will be provided to the guests along with a copy of the menu. It appears for a moment that he has changed his mind and that the other guests will also be allowed to leave — but then the staff brings out the final dish ...
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The Menu / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Menu / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When insulting Anne, Chef Julian calls her a "donkey." Tyler mentions his obsessive watching of the Netflix series Chef's Table. The dessert course is plated directly on the floor of the restaurant with artful swoops of sauce on the floor. The dessert course at the molecular gastronomy restaurant Alinea is also plated this way except directly on the table (plus the scene is almost a shot-by-shot recreation of said restaurant's episode in Chef's Table; ironically, Alinea's dish takes advantage of the cold, while Hawthorn plates theirs for the intention of lighting everything on fire).
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The Menu / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Menu / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: The first real sign that something unhinged is going on comes in the third course, "Memory", when Julian describes his childhood abuse by his alcoholic father (who he once had to stab in the leg with scissors and now regrets not aiming for the throat) and his neglect by an equally alcoholic mother ... who's sitting in the room in a drunken stupor. He then serves the guests chicken pierced with scissors and later immolates his mother with the rest of the guests.
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The Menu / int_ce165390	type	Casting Couch
The Menu / int_ce165390	comment	Casting Couch: The "Men's Folly" portion of the meal is introduced by one of Julian's sous chefs, Katherine, who calmly describes how Chef Slowik had sexually harassed her multiple times and then made her job even more difficult when she rebuffed his advances. She then ritualistically stabs him in the leg, and the men are chased off into the woods. The sous chef then confesses to the other women that she came up with the idea to kill everyone at the end of the meal, implying that Julian's final menu was motivated by the chef wanting to punish himself as much as to punish the guests.
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The Menu / int_cf511248	type	All Part of the Show
The Menu / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: After Jeremy shoots himself, Lillian insists that it's just theatre and not real. She continues to cling to that belief after Richard's finger is cut off, but she's soon forced to accept that Julian really is going to kill them all. Later inverted when a member of the Coast Guard arrives on the scene to rescue the surviving guests...only for it to turn out that he's one of Julian's cooks, and that he was just playing a part. The guests really think that they're being rescued.
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The Menu / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Menu / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: By the final act, Margot herself has run out of options. She can't run or fight. She can't call for help and even if she managed to, it would come too late. She's literally minutes away from the final course being served. Then, suddenly, she remembers something and claps.
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The Menu / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
The Menu / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: When has ordering a cheeseburger and fries to go been so epic?
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The Menu / int_d2566b32	type	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
The Menu / int_d2566b32	comment	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: In one course, every male diner is released into the woods in order to be hunted down. Downplayed, however, as they're not killed in the forest — just brought back to Hawthorn. The "winner" is even rewarded with an extra dessert.
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The Menu / int_d36b9a69	type	Precious Photo
The Menu / int_d36b9a69	comment	Precious Photo: Julian's office is extremely sparsely decorated and contains only a handful of newspaper scraps and a few photos of his early restaurant successes and of his family. However, the one picture that is framed and on most prominent display is his Employee of the Month award from his first job as a fast food line cook. This turns out to be very important.
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The Menu / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
The Menu / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: As insane and cruel as Chef Julian has become, Margot is the only one who actually catches on to the why of his menu: he's extremely dissatisfied with his fame and notoriety when it comes to haute cuisine, to the point where his only happy memory is when he was an unknown line cook at a burger joint. By ordering a cheeseburger from him at the very end, she's the only one to show she understands him, and thus the only guest who earns his mercy.
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The Menu / int_d3ec9dfd	type	Ordered to Die
The Menu / int_d3ec9dfd	comment	Ordered to Die: Slowik manipulated around 30 cooks, waiters/guards and sommelier into a murder/suicide pact without blinking. It helped that the staff was isolated, sleep-deprived and lacked privacy in a high-tension/high-performance environment, and then you have Slowik who is a master manipulator having access to you 24/7. He is so successful that the staff themselves proposes that everyone needs to die.
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The Menu / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Menu / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: The menu runs off of this. Highlights include bread plates with no bread to mock the affluence of the clientele, a taco decorated to evoke a domestic abuse incident (with tortillas adorned with personalized insults and threats), a cook killing himself prior to presenting a dish called "The Mess", and a final dessert course in which the guests are dressed in marshmallow smocks and chocolate hats to be burned alive as s'mores. Margot, after everything has hit the fan and Chef Julian has decided that she deserves to die with the guests after all, calls him out on his hypocrisy and declares she's still hungry. She then orders a traditional cheeseburger and fries (the one and only thing that Julian still enjoys preparing). Then asks for it to go. And it works.
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The Menu / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Menu / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: The finance bros jokingly dump on each other at the start of the dinner, admitting they're all assholes. Once it becomes clear they're in danger, they drop this behavior.
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The Menu / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Menu / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: The three techbros consistently bring up their connection to Doug Verrick, Hawthorn's "angel investor," to try and get special treatment or threaten punishment against Slowick for their mistreatment. This continues until they're Forced to Watch as Verrick is drowned before their eyes.
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The Menu / int_dc67d9ba	type	Kiss of Death
The Menu / int_dc67d9ba	comment	Kiss of Death: Julian kisses Jeremy on his cheeks before the latter eats his gun.
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The Menu / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
The Menu / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: Tyler is the only diner who's having a good time and enjoying the food. Up to a point. After Slowik exposes the fact that he knew everyone was going to die beforehand, things quickly go downhill for him as he's humiliated and finally hangs himself.
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The Menu / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
The Menu / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: The story takes place in a restaurant on a small island. There is little else on the isle beside the restaurant and the facilities used for it and the crew. While the guests are held hostage in the restaurant, there is also no way to flee even if they did leave. Margot manages to flee only because Slowik set up a fake rescue mission that brought a boat back
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The Menu / int_e2c91d45	type	Comfort Food
The Menu / int_e2c91d45	comment	Comfort Food: Slowik promises to cook Margot a cheeseburger that will "make you feel as if you're eating the first cheeseburger you ever ate. The cheap one your parents could barely afford." This time, it's not intended to invoke nostalgia in the diner, however, but the cook.
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The Menu / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
The Menu / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: Hawthorn operates an awful lot like one with Julian as their charismatic leader and figurehead. They all live and work on an island isolated from the rest of society, but Julian has a private residence that no one else is allowed to enter while his employees are crammed together in a dormitory where the toilets are just a few feet away from the beds without even a partition for privacy. Despite this, they have absolute loyalty to Chef Julian to the point of planning and enacting the Murder-Suicide plot.
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The Menu / int_e634b394	type	Sudden Morbid Monologue
The Menu / int_e634b394	comment	Sudden Morbid Monologue: From the "Memory" course onward, the anecdotes, whether from Julian or his sous-chefs related to the menu item become increasingly unsettling.
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The Menu / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Menu / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Subverted. While introducing the "Men's Folly" course, Katherine stabs Slowik with scissors. She just stabs him in the thigh, but given the camera angle of the initial attack, coupled with this being preceded by Katherine recounting how Slowik sexually harassed her, you'd be forgiven for thinking that she'd stabbed him in the groin.
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The Menu / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Menu / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	And the reveal of Tyler's foreknowledge, which only serves to further his Jerkassery:
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The Menu / int_ecbf37ff	type	Disposable Sex Worker
The Menu / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Disposable Sex Worker: Invoked in-universe. It's revealed that Margot isn't Tyler's girlfriend, but an escort he hired to bring along to Hawthorn despite knowing full well what Slowik had planned. Ultimately subverted, however, as Margot turns out to be the Final Girl.
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The Menu / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
The Menu / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: Richard gets his ring finger hacked off when trying to leave but as his wedding band rolls to a stop, the scene immediately cuts to Tyler casually slicing his cylindrical potato confit to fit into his mouth.
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The Menu / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
The Menu / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The contents of the gift bags. "A booklet of our local suppliers, some house-made granola, one of Doug Verrick's fingers, and a copy of tonight's menu".
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The Menu / int_efa2d938	type	Homage Shot
The Menu / int_efa2d938	comment	The dessert course is plated directly on the floor of the restaurant with artful swoops of sauce on the floor. The dessert course at the molecular gastronomy restaurant Alinea is also plated this way except directly on the table (plus the scene is almost a shot-by-shot recreation of said restaurant's episode in Chef's Table; ironically, Alinea's dish takes advantage of the cold, while Hawthorn plates theirs for the intention of lighting everything on fire).
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The Menu / int_f005700f	type	Conspicuous Consumption
The Menu / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: Richard and Anne have dined at Hawthorn eleven times, casually paying $1,250 per head on each occasion, even though they can't recall a single course served to them.
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The Menu / int_f197c220	type	Burger Fool
The Menu / int_f197c220	comment	Burger Fool: Subverted. One of Julian's first jobs was at a cheap burger restaurant, but he was apparently quite happy while working there.
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The Menu / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
The Menu / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: As a movie set in the world of haute cuisine, this is to be expected, although Margot finds the fancy trappings off-putting. Most of the dishes play with this trope; while a dedicated foodie like Tyler would probably find Slowik's food gorgeous, to the average diner it comes off looking more like sculpture. Interesting to look at and presented to perfection, but not necessarily teasing the palate. Fittingly, probably the best piece of food porn in the film would be the cooking and eating of a humble double cheeseburger and fries.
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The Menu / int_f275ee5f	type	Dead Sparks
The Menu / int_f275ee5f	comment	Dead Sparks: Richard and Anne are a wealthy couple who seem to have absolutely no passion in their lives, least of all towards each other.
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The Menu / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Menu / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Tyler makes repeated references to a Pacojet (an extremely expensive piece of kitchen equipment used to puree frozen foods without thawing them, which an amateur cook like Tyler should have no reason to have except to look posh), to the point where Slowik mockingly asks him during his failed cooking attempt if he would like to use one. A Pacojet actually does appear during Margot and Elsa's fight.
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The Menu / int_fceabba8	type	Silent Whisper
The Menu / int_fceabba8	comment	Silent Whisper: After humiliating him in front of everyone, Julian whispers something into Tyler's ear. We never learn what was said, but it's enough to make Tyler immediately go hang himself in a closet in the back.
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The Menu / int_fdb355db	type	Fun with Subtitles
The Menu / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: Each "course," along with its ingredients, are listed on the screen as the dinner continues. The glamour shots of the food and the subtitle are done as a parody of the ones seen on the documentary series Chef's Table. As the dinner progresses, they get progressively more and more unhinged: "The Mess" concludes with "R.I.P Jeremy Louden." The course Chef Julian forces Tyler to cook is called "Tyler's Bullshit", and the ingredients are all described in disparaging terms. The cheeseburger is described as "Just a Very Well Made Cheeseburger", not even an ingredients list. The ingredients for the s'mores include the guests, staff and restaurant.
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The Menu / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
The Menu / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Margot gets in a fight to the death with Elsa, and despite sustaining several cuts, she still looks immaculately put together aside from some blood on her arms and dress.
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The Menu / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
The Menu / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Most of Julian's motive is to take revenge against the decadent, corrupt rich people he's spent his life serving, but various moments make it clear that he's just as angry at them for various personal slights. The reason Julian invites George to dinner is because years ago, he spent one of his few days off watching a film of his that he didn't like. As George notes, he wasn't the one who wrote it, he just acted in it, but Julian associates his face with the movie, therefore he must die. The underlying implication is that George put out a bad product that cost moviegoers their precious time and money, and that he knew it was bad and didn't care because he had a good time shooting it, collected a paycheck, and could just blame everyone else for its failure. Julian took it personally because he hadn't had a day off in months and wasted it seeing the movie. George's assistant Felicity gets it by virtue of the fact that she attended an Ivy League school via wealthy parents. While being born into a wealthy family is not through any fault of her own, throughout the dinner it is both heavily implied and outright stated that she continues to lean on connections and taking other people's money without actually producing anything meaningful herself. In the middle of his rant against Doug Verrick, the corrupt "Angel Investor" who bankrolls Hawthorn, the angriest we see Julian in the entire film is at the fact that Verrick asked for substitutions. This suggests that Verrick didn't actually believe in Julian's work or like his food, but just saw it as a business investment, which Julian did not appreciate. When he overhears Lillian complaining about the broken emulsion of one of the spreads on the "breadless bread plate", he has Elsa and a cook bring an entire bowl of that broken emulsion to her table. Twice.
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The Menu / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Menu / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: The Hawthorn staff took the time to bake a birthday cake for one of the businessmen (although their words suggest that it isn't actually a birthday and it was just intended as a joke before things escalated). Ordering a fast food cheeseburger, Margot reignites Slowik's passion in his craft and reminds him why he got into it to begin with. As a result, he packs her food for her when she asks him to and then grants her her freedom, allowing her to leave with her life. Before departing, Margot looks back at the guests, almost unsure about leaving them behind. As she looks over the room, no one seems to begrudge her escape (Lillian notably looks impressed). The sweeping shot ends on Anne, who only found out hours ago that her husband was a client of Margot's, and who gently gestures at her to go on. Combined with Even Evil Has Standards, it's made clear that unexpected deviations are against Julian's professional ethos, but he interrupts the service unprompted to humiliate Tyler after revealing that Tyler knowingly brought an innocent person with him to die. The very fact that Julian informed Tyler ahead of time what was going to happen implies that he was trying to spare someone he thought was merely an overenthusiastic fan and it was only after he revealed just how vile and selfish a person he was that Julian decided to include him among the victims.
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The Menu / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: As the film takes place at a high-end restaurant, the production brought in three Michelin star chef Dominique Crenn to design the dishes as well as actual kitchen staff in front of the camera to make the food scenes as real as possible. The radio in the cabin that was used to call the "Coast Guard" at first glance appears to be just a prop. But taking a closer look reveals that it's a CB radio, not a VHF Radio, that is set to channel 16. Channel 16 is the correct Marine channel to call for help, but an unused channel in CB. Also, given the unreliability of Citizens Band and the limited transmitting range (5 miles), the Coast Guard doesn't even monitor that band nor is it likely to be picked up by authorities on the mainland.
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