Did You Notice The Hidden Twist In The Menu Ending?

The Hidden Twist In The Menu Ending. THE MENU (2022) Ending Explained. We review, recap and explain the ending of The Menu which has now just released in theaters. We talk about the latest food based dark comedy movie, starring Anya Taylor Joy and Ralph Fiennes in a deliciously fun movie, and explain how the ending is a huge mirror being held up.

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Ok so big spoilers for the ending of The Menu and the main plot of the movie.

Turn off now if you haven't had a chance to see it.

Now The Menu seemingly ends with Anya Taylor Joy's character Margot escaping the Island. In it we watch as Julian Slowik slowly serves his perfect menu which enacts revenge on some shady diners that all have a nefarious past. Especially the actor...your movie ruined the one Sunday he had off.

Anyway we learn that Margot is a woman of the night and thus she's very much in the service industry similar to him and all his other chefs. After discovering a back room that has photos of Julian she comes across one where he seems to genuinely be happy and this calls back to his days as a hamburger chef in a fast food joint. Come the end of the film she stands up to say that he doesn't make food with love anymore and she requests a cheeseburger which he makes whilst likely remembering why he fell in love with food in the first place.

She requests it to go and is set free but there might be a darker side to this. Now throughout the movie, Julian constantly says that everyone must die and thus if they don't the Menu won't be completed.

I actually think it's possible that Margot does die and this is final bite that we see her taking has a double layer to it. Look how it plays out with this in mind.

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Now what are the clues for this?

Well earlier in the movie we watch as the diners are given a tour of the island and they're taken to a shed where the meat from dairy cows is aged for 152 days.

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We're also told that if this goes over one day that this will happen.

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Now what if the burger that Margot has at the end is actually made from this meat and this final bit could be her sealing her fate. She's stranded out in the sea with the boat shutting down and this could've also have been planned by Julian incase anyone escapes the island. Just seems weird that we get such a strong focus on the cow meat and then the boat shuts down before we get the final bite to that sinister music.

Now this definitely might not be the case and it could be a happy ending but I just thought I'd break down a differnt way to look at the end.

Obviously let me know if you agree or not and if you wanna see our full breakdown on the ending then that'll be linked on screen right now.

[heavyspoilersclips]

Let us know what you think of the movie.

[bushbasher]

It’s not a bad theory, but I think she definitely lived. Everyone that he killed in one way or another made him lose his love of cooking and being a chef. She reignited it, if only briefly, and because he found that love one last time, She got away with her life.

[hustle_simmons]

It's a nice theory but she wasn't meant to die. Slovik stated clearly she didn't belong there thus she is not part of the "Everyone must die or the menu doesn't work" her dying would be akin to a "wrong ingredient " or a "substitution" (there was suppose to be another girl that tyler brought) and Chef stated earlier "There are no substitutions at Hawthorne." Margot would be a substitution in his plans.

[hideyazuch]

The burger was not made with smoked meat. The deposit that is shown at the beginning of the film was for smoking meat or charcuterie as you call it smoked meat. When asked if eaten after a while they could be deadly, he refers to the smoking process of charcuterie that takes 152 days. I don't know of any hamburger meat that can be stored for that long.

[keithbrings]

I imagine her looking up and and then taking a big bite out of the burger was essentially a victory lap. Part of her line of work is knowing the client, pushing their buttons for the desired outcome. She like the chef is very good at her vocation. She did exactly what she had to do based on what she knew about the chef to survive and did so perfectly. Thus the sound cue. Its her feeling some of the same disdain and resentment for the customers, the chef, as he did.

[Kjleed]

That’s a clever call back. But she did request the cheapest burger on the menu and the beef had no hint of dry aging.

[ValwithaVee]

She lives, and the Menu still worked because the only thing she ate was something not from THE Menu. Even the first dish had this very brief shot where Tyler took her food because she wasn't eating it. The other courses she didn't even bother to touch.

[John-kvjo]

The problem with this theory is that she already took a bite of the burger while at the restaurant. If the meat was off, then she would have had side effects by the time she took the second bite. My theory is that she was spared because she was innocent.

[UC_Fran]

Her eating the burger was a nod of respect to the chef and showed her contempt for the other diners. She was on the chef’s side at that point.

[bradfordsmith]

Nope she lives. The last bite we see pause is for us. It’s to show us that the first bite wasn’t poison. That after all she’s been through, she finally feels safe enough to stop the boat and finish her burger. I believe this is the first time her true self is able to relax and that is what we are seeing. Free from peril. Free from hunger. She quietly enjoys her meal knowing she can simply wait till morning and navigate to land. Something she would not know how to do in the dark with no experience which she demonstrates by having a tough time even starting the boat. The boat doesn’t give out. She turns it off after she’s gotten far enough away. It’s nice to form alternate endings but I believe she earned the right to live by giving chef a piece of his joy back in making that burger and treating him like a human being instead of a servant. I believe that’s the message being conveyed. The pause was for us. One last is she going to live or die moment just for kicks. As for the meat scene that was all foreshadowing the many many deaths to come. I don’t see anything more in that scene. I believe it’s a bit of a reach to tie the beef to the burger because they made a point that they don’t allow the beef to spoil. Since the chef couldn’t have predicted she would ask for a burger, I highly doubt they kept a batch of bad beef around just in case. Further more once ashore even if the meat was bad she’d just be in the hospital for a bit. It’s a nice reach but a reach too far.

[D-Town-]

I never thought of it that way.

That's a pretty solid theory but I just interpreted it as him letting her go because she made him love preparing food for someone else for a brief moment.

[justafidemyself]

It's actually just him letting her leave, the photo with the burger was the only one where Chef smiled. He loved making food and this took him back to his happy days. Only when she leaves he snaps back to finish off The Menu. 'Margot' wasn't part of said Menu.

[stephenwhite]

The main issue was that she was never meant to be there in the first place. When he talks about serving the perfect menu, a big part of that is serving it to the people he chose. This is why it irked him constantly that she was there. In that way her leaving also helped him achieve the perfect menu

[mefirst]

Having friends and relatives who are chefs with their own restaurants, I hear stories from them all the time that at end of a long day, they just want something simple for themselves, the theme in this movie really hits home.

[stlouislord]

I think the way she tilts her head back I did think she was poisoned as well. But when she took the next bite it actually made me think she was going to be ok

[bwainwright]

Don’t forget one important aspect of her character. She’s an escort by trade and by extension part of the exploited service industry - maybe even typifying this running theme. When Margot realizes the origins of Chefs master plan is based in revenge she has an insight into her own unique ability to control and influence, skills hard one as an escort. Margot, invited to join Chef and his crew in a death that sets them free from the inevitability that their passion will never truly please their customers, Margot realizes she is one of them, and has the skill of reading men and giving them what they want. Thus she stands up and claps challenging chef to a dual of power and influence over everyone (staff and guests). And Margot, demonstrating the virtue of her hard one ability to give men what they want, signals to Chef that it’s the skill born out of being a low class escort that actually prepared her to do the very thing elites could never do. Survive.

[usware]

He had absolutely no reason to kill her and a lot of reasons to let her live. He was very obviously wanting her to get away throughout the movie.

[kristopherschermerhorn]

I don’t think so. The film had recipe cards for the meals, and for the cheeseburger, it said for the ingredients “just a well made burger”. When Elsa was talking about the meat at the beginning of the film, she mentioned something about it being good that they’re good at what they do (so that wouldn’t happen). I don’t think the recipe card would have called it “just a well made burger” if it was made in a way to poison the eater.

[SpaceRaccoon]

The whole detail about the meat being aged for exactly 152 days and no more is just to show that they have everything down to an exact science. As Tyler puts it "it's art on the edge of the abyss".

[keitaro]

so, anyone can explain what the function of the Cheff's Mother to appear there?? she just goes there, drunk, and to die? or only for the 2nd menu's backstory?