The Menu is a movie about a celebrity chef Julian Slowik who is fed up with critics. He wants to pay them all back and invites a few to dinner. Margot Mills and her date Tyler are two of the attendees they travel by boat to go to the exclusive soon to be deadly dinner party. Tyler was at the dinner in The Menu because he was a self-proclaimed, delusional foodie who had been in contact with Chef Slowik for months and knew about the deadly plans, expecting a unique culinary experience. He brought Margot, an escort he hired for the evening, despite knowing she was not on the official guest list and would be a victim, which ultimately led to his own humiliation and demise at the chef’s hands.
Julian declares all the guests were selected because they either contributed to him losing his passion because they make a living off exploiting the work of artisans and workers like him and his team. He announces that everyone present will be dead by the end of the night. Since Margot’s presence was unplanned, Julian privately gives her the choice of dying either with the staff or with the guests. When Margot hesitates, Julian decides for her, saying he knows his upper-crust customers from fellow service-industry workers.
The cheeseburger scene is a strategic ploy to get out of the planned event. Slowick was determined to complete his plan, he knew every action he was going to take and had everything calculated to the finest detail. In that sort of planning one would believe that the world is deterministic, that you can assess the methods in which things occur and “make” them happen.
An alternative to that is that we are not in a deterministic reality but instead are part of a simulation run by some exterior force. Our lives are not real and we are not real, we are some grandiose made up something or another. The theory resides on the premise that quantum particles inhibit a existence of being in multiple states at the same time and only require a slight modification to alter the direction of its path. Meaning that at any given time anything can happen allowing for an outside manipulation to “simulate” any sort of permutation. The paper that I looked at https://philpapers.org/archive/ARVGIT.pdf was kind of interesting, I don’t think that you can verify any of this empirically but I do have a couple of observations on the matter.
- It seems like every I drive on the highway despite there not being any cars at some point as I get closer to a destination several cars “appear” out of no where and I do travel at the speed limit
- Fences for live stock are always uniform, and appears that something generated them because I can’t imagine workers being able to get to some of the locations where the fence is put
- Random visual glitches though observed after the fact on camera are still odd
I’ll take that cheese burger to go please.
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Obviously my interests include philosophy. I think thinking and thought are the beginning of every great thing. It’s how we understand and perceive the world. Periodically I’ll change things up and blog about something math or computer science related or even a blog about mythology. I am not political, trendy, or savvy, but I do like a good story. That is why I try and find a movie clip that hints or encompasses what I want to blog about. Sometimes the relevance is there, sometimes it’s a reach and I just really love the movie that I put in the post. The intent and purpose of my blog is to make you think, make me think and together our thoughts can be shared in a collection of material.