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Book Coach Corner: The Menu
Background: What Is Book Coach Corner?
Book Coach Corner is a blog series that allows me (your neighborhood-friendly book coach) to analyze books, tv shows, and movies. I will then dissect them in terms of story structure. As a heads up: there will be spoilers, and some posts may not make sense if you haven’t seen/read the work.
Those are the details. This entry explores The Menu, an enjoyable horror-comedy about fancy food and class.
Synopsis
The Menu follows “Margot”, a sex worker who is invited as a +1 to a prestigious island restaurant. During the meal, people are killed as The Chef makes his manifesto on food and culture clear.
Quick Thoughts
I loved the first 75% of this movie. It was darkly funny and intriguing. As people started dying and the horror escalated, I couldn’t wait to see how/if Margot would make her escape.
I also do have to mention that the tone of this movie is well-calibrated. I laughed out loud at some of the lines. The juxtaposition of the seriousness/violence with comedy was deftly done. At one point there is an exchange about college loans that made me audibly chuckle. No one else in the theater did, so I literally turned and gave everyone a dirty look. C’mon! It was funny…
