Wow...that was an...interesting movie.

As an ex-chef it was really fun to watch and see how they must have had some top-notch technical advisors because I really didn't notice any mistakes like you typically see in movies featuring chefs and kitchens like glass pots and pans and wrong kitchen line layouts etc.

I'll never look at a S'More again the same way, that's for damn sure!

I saw it a few months back. It was definitely not what I expected, but I enjoyed it.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
I saw it a few months back. It was definitely not what I expected, but I enjoyed it.

Agreed. Way more artsy and less a straight up thriller than I expected, but very well done. And the cast was great. Big fan of ATJ and Nicholas Hoult

-Rob

It was a fun movie.

It was a good film, I kept intending to see it, finally watched it on a plane and now I’m glad I did finally saw it.

I really enjoyed this film.

For anyone who has watched this, I’m confused by two things that Chef Slowik said in the movie:

In the “Taco Tuesday” scene he mentions growing up in Waterloo, Iowa.

But then later he says during the tea scene “There's a saying. 'Sometimes all you need is a good cup of tea.' I learned that growing up in Bratislava…” and at that point Margot gives a little sideways glance like she caught that he just said two different things about his background.

Did anyone catch that?

A couple possibilities, considering they included Margot's reaction:

A) Margot had likewise lied about where she grew up, so it may have been a dig directed at her, which she caught.

B) It may have been an intentional display of how pretentious chefs lie and make up these whimsical personal connections for each dish, and all of the other diners were too enamored to catch the blatant discrepancy except for Margot, who has seen through the bullshit from the start.


But in general, it's possible for someone to "grow up" in more than one area. Families move around. When people ask me where I grew up, I have several answers, because we moved every few years for a while. So had they not intentionally included Margot's reaction, it could have easily been explained by surmising that he spent part of his childhood in Slovakia and part of it in Iowa.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
A couple possibilities, considering they included Margot's reaction:


B) It may have been an intentional display of how pretentious chefs lie and make up these whimsical personal connections for each dish, and all of the other diners were too enamored to catch the blatant discrepancy except for Margot, who has seen through the bullshit from the start.

This was my thinking since the movie is basically a spoof of the whole "Cult of a Chef" thing

Did you know there was a real-life restaurant on an island in Denmark that may have been the inspiration for Hawthorne?

It coincidentally closed after the movie came out:

Noma, The Menu-est of Restaurants, Is Closing