Friday 14 September 2012

Not A "Falling Down" Moment

Hamburger in the Mos Burger fastfood restaurant.

In Joel Schumacher's 1993 film "Falling Down" Michael Douglas portrays an unemployed defense worker who, frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them. This is triggered in part by a disgusting-looking hamburger he is served in a burger bar bearing no resemblance to the tantilising photo on the menu board.

In Japan that would never happen. At least not in any chain restaurant. In fact, I think that most of the time the real thing actually looks better than the menu image! The menu images are often graphics rather than photographs. Which is rather ironic when you think about it. Why not photograph the product when they look this good in reality?! Also tastes great too. ;-)

Here's the scene from "Falling Down"...


The only natural conclusion we can draw from this evidence is:- if you get your burgers right, society will be a safer place for us all.