I’m hate listening to this right now. Will update with their insights :rat-salute-2:
Update: There were no insights and now my ears are bleeding.
Gee, it's almost like the rich are pushing us all off a cliff and that's making us just a little fucking resentful.
Also it's a more realistic depiction, if fact I'd say it's still nicer than it could be.
The people who make these shows are still artists, they still get fucked over by the rich, so if their studios smell money in giving people what they want then they'll let their creative teams dunk on the rich as a treat (within reason, notice these shows all have a 'not all rich people' angle to them). It's as simple as that.
Wait when do rich people suffer in The White Lotus?
spoiler
Jennifer Coolidge bumps her head on a yacht. Michael Imperioli gets his credit cards maxed out. Jake Lacy has to wait, like, two whole days before he gets a room with a plunge pool.
They had to segue into DAE LE TESLA THE MISSION(tm)(r) SAVING HUMANITY didn't they? :soypoint-1: :melon-musk: :soypoint-2:
Something something let the capitalists do anti capitalism for us :fishe:
Letting the capitalists do anti-capitalism just ends in bourgeois revolution and a bunch of genocide of racial minorities.
The commentary of The Menu was just shit though. I felt like it was more made by or for rich people fetishizing what it’s like to be poor (and “degraded”, which the film treats as synonymous) rather than attacking or even actually threatening the rich.
At most was a call for the rich to embrace a working class aesthetic.
Mostly it seemed to be some weird griping about degustation menu dining, a known past time of the poors, that somehow got funded as a film.
How I’m certain this film got made:
Trust fund baby 1: man these dishes are always so small, I just want a burger
Trust fund baby 2: holy shit that’s it that’s the movie man you’re a genius
