lol. I kept thinking this the whole time.
i hope you choke on your bacardi & coke!
*Team Landa*
Yeah, the owner is such a swell guy to have in the joint every day. LOL.
I believe Albert's take over of it was pretty recent, and it doesn't take long before everybody in the place is more than happy to help his wife get her revenge against him.
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It's an allegory for Thatcherite Britain. The other diners in the restaurant represent the wealthy, who tolerate Spica (the ultra-capitalist, selfinterested right-wing government) because he, too, is wealthy and (more importantly) owns the restaurant. As they wish to be wealthy and be in the restaurant, they put up with his behaviour. Unless he attacks them directly, of course.
If you choose not to read the film as allegory, then you might say that the other diners are just as self-obsessed as Spica and ignore him completely until confronted. It's a trendy, high-class restaurant and they want to be seen there. It works either way.
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People who live in paper houses shouldn't throw scissors.
It's an allegory for Thatcherite Britain. The other diners in the restaurant represent the wealthy, who tolerate Spica (the ultra-capitalist, selfinterested right-wing government) because he, too, is wealthy and (more importantly) owns the restaurant. As they wish to be wealthy and be in the restaurant, they put up with his behaviour. Unless he attacks them directly, of course.
She didn't win any elections in Scotland. Fat lot of good that did us.
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It's not "sci-fi", it's SF!
Because this movie happens in very dark world kind of world that is ruled by this thief. This world exist for him like for a king like France existed for its king before revolution.
shareoh well.... here was I in love with the restaurant decor, the photography ...and wishing the actual place existed.... without Spica, of course. ;)
shareAssuming the restaurant looked the way it did before Spica took it over, it's actually not a bad question. Who would, who could, possibly eat a meal in such an oppressively, dreadfully decorated space? As many posters have indicated, the interiors are part of a visual metaphor that cannot be taken at face value, but then again, those crazy 'eighties designers did a lot of crazy things with building interiors. In any case we are presented with what is ostensibly a very successful eatery which is then slowly run into the ground by the antics and pretensions of its new owner. I guess I'd stick to the profiteroles.
shareGod no.
shareI was thinking the same, how he treats his customers.. you'd think word would get out, and nobody would go back.
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