The Menu FILM

There have been several movies made that use food, eating, and dining as a vehicle.

[Julia & Julia ](https://movieweb.com/movie/julie-julia/)is about blogger Julia Powell as she attempts to cook all the recipes in the book by famous and well renowned cook, Julia Childs. Chocolate, in this sense, is symbolic and her owning a business and actually making the chocolate is as provocative as her daring to be a singular being and individual. How she is viewed as a person and woman and mother is directly connected to her making chocolate as a profession. In the case of this film, that message in given to moviegoers through food and dining, and ultimately, Favrea's character, Carl Casper leaving status for something off the beaten-path, a food truck, which can be seen as a lesser vessel or a step-down. For Carl, this exemplifies what his cooking is really about and the creative control that he desires to exist in as a culinary artist. Ultimately, in the film, a food critic tastes a dish, ratatouille, that [ Remy the rat concocts ](https://movieweb.com/remys-ratatouille-adventure-epcot-disney-world/)under the guise of the human Chef Linguin,i and is transposed to a very emotional place, seen visually in the film as flashbacks of his childhood and life. Needless to say, there are many food scenes in this movie, each one capturing the journey of the main character, Elizabeth, as well as the places and cultures that she visits and experiences. The film captures her journey, emphasizing luxury and its trappings from her youth that are in manifold as she comes to reign. The movie is about the young heiress and her rise to queen, and ultimately, ill-fated reign. The wander-lust of not having but wanting, held in the simplicity of standing outside the window of a prominent and aristocratic store with a menial breakfast as she looks at the expensive jewelry, captures a very important message about the film itself. The culinary culture is both about craft and the approach to the consumption of food. This same culture has blended into pop culture and into subsequent forms of art to visually display and express the singular and collective experience of dining.