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The Menu (2022)

A Haute Cuisine Horror of Revenge and Culinary Madness

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3/7/20252 min read

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The Ultimate Fine Dining Experience Gone Wrong

The Menu (2022): A Haute Cuisine Horror of Revenge and Culinary Madness

Warning: Spoilers ahead for this intense culinary thriller!

The Menu features a chilling experience where renowned Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) invites hand-picked elite guests to his remote, secluded restaurantโ€”where a boat is neededโ€”for what becomes their final meal. At $1,250 per person, these wealthy patrons expect nothing less than culinary perfection, but never imagine becoming ingredients themselves.

Chef Slowik's exclusively selected dinner party includes:

  • A washed-up celebrity and his status-seeking girlfriend

  • A wealthy regular and his disconnected wife

  • Three entitled tech-industry bros

  • An influential food critic who once "made" Chef's career

  • Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy)โ€”an unexpected additionโ€”and her haute-cuisine-obsessed date Tyler

Fiennes dominates the screen with a masterful performance that blends controlled precision with simmering rage. His portrayal of Chef Slowikโ€”a once-passionate cook driven to madness by the shallowness of culinary elitismโ€”forms the backbone of this tense thriller.

What begins as merely eccentric dining theater gradually transforms into something horrifying. The military precision of kitchen staff, increasingly boundary-pushing personal nature of each course, and strange controlled atmosphere signal that this dinner has a disturbing menu planned.

From Passionate Cook to Vengeful Artist

A Carefully Curated Guest List

Chef Slowik's journey from humble burger-flipper to celebrated culinary genius reveals how artistic passion can warp into resentment. Years of catering to privileged elites who consume without satisfaction or appreciation have poisoned his love for cooking.

The film builds tension masterfully as guests witness increasingly disturbing eventsโ€”staged real suicides, severed fingers, and calculated violenceโ€”all orchestrated as part of Chef's "menu." His restaurant becomes a stage where fine dining transforms into a culinary performance art with lethal outcomes.

Margot: The Authentic Outsider

The film's emotional core lies in the unexpected connection between Chef and Margot, an inconspicuous sex worker who wasn't on the original guest list. Chef recognizes her as a fellow service industry professionalโ€”someone who, like him, caters to the appetites of the wealthy.

Taylor-Joy's Margot navigates this deadly scenario by cleverly tapping into Chef's nostalgia. When she requests a simple cheeseburger instead of his elaborate creations, she reminds him of a time when cooking brought genuine joyโ€”before prestige corrupted his passion.

Sharp Social Commentary on a Plate

The Menu delivers a biting critique of elite appetite and consumption through its thrilling narrative:

  • Exposes the absurdity of ultra-expensive dining culture

  • Highlights the growing divide between service workers and privileged consumers

  • Questions how certain pursuits in the name of upscale dining can become dehumanizing

  • Explores class warfare through the lens of food preparation and consumption

The structure cleverly mirrors an upscale tasting menu, each "course" revealing layers of Chef's psychological breakdown, while forcing guests to confront uncomfortable truths about themselvesโ€”sometimes literally, as personal information appears printed on edible tortillas.

As Chef's revenge reaches its climax, capelets made out of marshmallows are placed over the guests' shoulders, transforming the restaurant into a kind of bonfire and its occupants into human s'mores. This theatrical finale represents his view that these people are merely low-grade, highly processed ingredients in his final masterpiece.

The Final Course

Only Margot escapes, having proven herself authentic in a room full of entitled pretension. The final imageโ€”Margot enjoying a simple cheeseburger while watching the restaurant burnโ€”powerfully suggests that authenticity and genuine connection triumph over artificial experiences and lofty, self-promoting ambitions.

๋” ๋ฉ”๋‰ด (2022): ๋ณต์ˆ˜์™€ ์š”๋ฆฌ ๊ด‘๊ธฐ์˜ ์˜ค๋œจ ํ€ด์ง„ ๊ณตํฌ๋ฌผ

๊ฒฝ๊ณ : ์ด ๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ•œ ์š”๋ฆฌ ์Šค๋ฆด๋Ÿฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ฃผ์š” ์Šคํฌ์ผ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„ ๊ถ๊ทน์˜ ํŒŒ์ธ ๋‹ค์ด๋‹ ๊ฒฝํ—˜

๋” ๋ฉ”๋‰ด(2022)๋Š” ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ์Šฌ๋กœ์œ… ์…ฐํ”„(๋ž„ํ”„ ํŒŒ์ธ์ฆˆ)๊ฐ€ ์—„์„ ๋œ ์—˜๋ฆฌํŠธ ์†๋‹˜๋“ค์„ ๊ทธ์˜ ์™ธ๋”ด ์„ฌ ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘์œผ๋กœ ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆ„ ๋ผ์น˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ณณ์—๋Š” ๋ณดํŠธ๋ฅผ ํƒ€๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์‹์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1์ธ๋‹น 1,250๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•œ ์ด ๋ถ€์œ ํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์š”๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์ด ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ค„์€ ์ƒ์ƒ์กฐ์ฐจ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํŒŒ์ธ์ฆˆ๋Š” ํ†ต์ œ๋œ ์ •๋ฐ€ํ•จ๊ณผ ๋“์–ด์˜ค๋ฅด๋Š” ๋ถ„๋…ธ๋ฅผ ํ˜ผํ•ฉํ•œ ํƒ์›”ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ธฐ๋กœ ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฐ์„ ์žฅ์•…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋•Œ ์—ด์ •์ ์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ์š”๋ฆฌ ์—˜๋ฆฌํŠธ์ฃผ์˜์˜ ์ฒœ๋ฐ•ํ•จ์— ๊ด‘๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ชฐ๋ฆฐ ์š”๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์Šฌ๋กœ์œ… ์…ฐํ”„ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด ๊ธด์žฅ๊ฐ ๋„˜์น˜๋Š” ์Šค๋ฆด๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ค‘์ถ”๋ฅผ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์„ ๋ณ„๋œ ์†๋‹˜ ๋ช…๋‹จ

์Šฌ๋กœ์œ… ์…ฐํ”„๊ฐ€ ๋…์ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ ํƒํ•œ ์ €๋… ํŒŒํ‹ฐ ์†๋‹˜๋“ค:

  • ๋ชฐ๋ฝํ•œ ์—ฐ์˜ˆ์ธ๊ณผ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ง€์œ„๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฌ์ž์นœ๊ตฌ

  • ๋ถ€์œ ํ•œ ๋‹จ๊ณจ์†๋‹˜๊ณผ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฌด๊ด€์‹ฌํ•œ ์•„๋‚ด

  • ์„ธ ๋ช…์˜ ํŠน๊ถŒ์˜์‹์ด ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ํ…Œํฌ ์‚ฐ์—… ์ฒญ๋…„๋“ค

  • ํ•œ๋•Œ ์…ฐํ”„์˜ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์„ "๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ค€" ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ์Œ์‹ ํ‰๋ก ๊ฐ€

  • ๋งˆ๊ณ ํŠธ(์•ˆ์•ผ ํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ-์กฐ์ด) - ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์†๋‹˜ - ์™€ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์Œ์‹์— ์ง‘์ฐฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ์ƒ๋Œ€ ํƒ€์ผ๋Ÿฌ

๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๊ดด์ƒํ•œ ๋‹ค์ด๋‹ ์‡ผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ ์ฐจ ๊ณตํฌ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ ์ง์›๋“ค์˜ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ์  ์ •๋ฐ€ํ•จ, ์ ์  ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์„ ๋ ๋Š” ๊ฐ ์ฝ”์Šค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด์ƒํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ†ต์ œ๋œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ด ์ €๋… ์‹์‚ฌ์— ๋ถˆ๊ธธํ•œ ๋ฉ”๋‰ด๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„ํš๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์•”์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ด์ •์ ์ธ ์š”๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๋ณต์ˆ˜์‹ฌ์— ๋ถˆํƒ€๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋กœ

์Šฌ๋กœ์œ… ์…ฐํ”„๊ฐ€ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ํ–„๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ ์š”๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ์š”๋ฆฌ ์ฒœ์žฌ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฌ์ •์€ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์  ์—ด์ •์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์›ํ•œ์œผ๋กœ ์™œ๊ณก๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์‚ฌ ์—†์ด ์†Œ๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ํŠน๊ถŒ์ธต์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์š”๋ฆฌํ•œ ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ์„ธ์›”์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ์š”๋ฆฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ๋…์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€์งˆ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ํ™”๋Š” ์†๋‹˜๋“ค์ด ์ ์  ๋” ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด๋“ค - ์—ฐ์ถœ๋œ ์ž์‚ด, ์ž˜๋ฆฐ ์†๊ฐ€๋ฝ, ๊ณ„์‚ฐ๋œ ํญ๋ ฅ - ์„ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ธด์žฅ๊ฐ์„ ํƒ์›”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์…ฐํ”„์˜ "๋ฉ”๋‰ด"์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋กœ ์กฐ์œจ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘์€ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ๋‹ค์ด๋‹์ด ์น˜๋ช…์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค๋Š” ํผํฌ๋จผ์Šค ์•„ํŠธ๋กœ ๋ณ€๋ชจํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌด๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋งˆ๊ณ ํŠธ: ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์™ธ๋ถ€์ธ

์˜ํ™”์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์  ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ์…ฐํ”„์™€ ์›๋ž˜ ์†๋‹˜ ๋ช…๋‹จ์— ์—†์—ˆ๋˜ ์„ฑ๋…ธ๋™์ž ๋งˆ๊ณ ํŠธ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ์œ ๋Œ€๊ฐ์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์…ฐํ”„๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ์ž์‹ ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์‚ฐ์—… ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ธ์‹ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค - ๊ทธ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ถ€์œ ์ธต์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์นœ๋ฐ€ํ•œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์œผ๋กœ.

ํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ-์กฐ์ด์˜ ๋งˆ๊ณ ํŠธ๋Š” ์…ฐํ”„์˜ ํ–ฅ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ž๊ทนํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ด ์น˜๋ช…์ ์ธ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ํ—ค์ณ๋‚˜๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ •๊ตํ•œ ์ฐฝ์ž‘๋ฌผ ๋Œ€์‹  ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์น˜์ฆˆ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์š”์ฒญํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ์š”๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์จ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ค€ ์‹œ์ ˆ - ๋ช…์„ฑ์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ์—ด์ •์„ ํƒ€๋ฝ์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์ „ - ์„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ ‘์‹œ ์œ„์˜ ๋‚ ์นด๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌํšŒ ๋น„ํ‰

'๋” ๋ฉ”๋‰ด'๋Š” ์Šค๋ฆด ๋„˜์น˜๋Š” ๋‚ด๋Ÿฌํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์—˜๋ฆฌํŠธ ์†Œ๋น„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹ ๋ž„ํ•œ ๋น„ํŒ์„ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

  • ์ดˆ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์ด๋‹ ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ ํ„ฐ๋ฌด๋‹ˆ์—†์Œ์„ ํญ๋กœ

  • ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๋…ธ๋™์ž์™€ ํŠน๊ถŒ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ์ปค์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•์กฐ

  • ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์  ์ถ”๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋น„์ธ๊ฐ„ํ™”๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ

  • ์Œ์‹ ์ค€๋น„์™€ ์†Œ๋น„์˜ ๋ Œ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ณ„๊ธ‰ ์ „์Ÿ์„ ํƒ๊ตฌ

๊ตฌ์กฐ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ์‹œ์‹ ๋ฉ”๋‰ด๋ฅผ ๊ต๋ฌ˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ "์ฝ”์Šค"๋Š” ์…ฐํ”„์˜ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ๋ถ•๊ดด์˜ ์ธต์œ„๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ์†๋‹˜๋“ค์ด ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๋ถˆํŽธํ•œ ์ง„์‹ค๊ณผ ๋Œ€๋ฉดํ•˜๋„๋ก ๊ฐ•์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค - ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ž ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ฐœ์ธ ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ์‹์šฉ ๋˜๋ ์•ผ์— ์ธ์‡„๋˜์–ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์ฝ”์Šค

์…ฐํ”„์˜ ๋ณต์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ ˆ์ •์— ๋‹ฌํ•  ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งˆ์‹œ๋ฉœ๋กœ ์ผ€์ดํ”Œ๋ฆฟ ๋””์ €ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘๊ณผ ๊ทธ ์†๋‹˜๋“ค์„ ์ธ๊ฐ„ ์Šค๋ชจ์–ด๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ˜•์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ฐ๊ทน์ ์ธ ํ”ผ๋‚ ๋ ˆ๋Š” ์ด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋‹จ์ง€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ตœํ›„ ๊ฑธ์ž‘์˜ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ์ผ ๋ฟ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ์„ ๋Œ€๋ณ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ค์ง ๋งˆ๊ณ ํŠธ๋งŒ์ด ๊ฐ€์‹์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐฌ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์—์„œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ง„์ •์„ฑ์„ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ํƒˆ์ถœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ - ๋งˆ๊ณ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘์ด ๋ถˆํƒ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ์น˜์ฆˆ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต - ๋Š” ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›€์ด ์ธ์œ„์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋Šฅ๊ฐ€ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

'๋” ๋ฉ”๋‰ด'๋Š” ๊ณตํฌ, ๋ธ”๋ž™ ์ฝ”๋ฏธ๋””, ์‚ฌํšŒ ๋น„ํ‰์„ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ธ ์Šค๋ฆด๋Ÿฌ๋กœ, ์—”๋”ฉ ํฌ๋ ˆ๋”ง์ด ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ„ ํ›„์—๋„ ๊ด€๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•  ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊น๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ณ„๊ธ‰, ์˜ˆ์ˆ , ์†Œ๋น„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ์ž๊ทนํ•˜๋Š” ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๊ณ ์ฐฐ๋กœ, ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ๊นŠ์€ ์‚ฌ์ƒ‰์„ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ๋ฆฌ ์ผœ๋Š” ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.