The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie

After the recently abandoned Whitehouse press dinner, where the guests enjoyed their Pea and Burrat salads, the lobster and steak  had to be given to the poor when the room was abandoned, I find the conspiracy theories far too politically partisan and cliched to be either credible or amusing. I prefer to wonder why for his latest non-event the present Misleader of The Free World chose as cover for getting out of an event he did not want to attend to re-enact the plot of the 1972 French film 'The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie', where privileged but corrupt guests try repeatedly to set up a dinner date for themselves, and with each attempt increasingly bizzare and absurd reasons stop them sitting down and eating. Until at the last attempt, the meal is disprupted by hails of gunfire so the guests scuttle to hide under the tables, one guest (see picture above) stealing a snack from the table. The film ends with the guests emptily walking down an empty road, the credits rolling down the screen. Nobody dies. How unlike real life in gun cultures around the world, where life is so expendable it seems to be worth misrepresenting. How surreal, how civilised....