r/MovieDetails • u/quantumtom • 14d ago

👨‍🚀 Prop/Costume In Vice (2018), the menu from the fancy restaurant is labelled "Le Talion", French for retribution.

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EXPLANATION: At the fancy steak house, the heading on the menu reads "Le Talion" - a French term that translates to retribution (retaliation).

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u/arellano81366 14d ago

Something got lost in translation. Talion is "retaliation in kind" or the legendary " an eye for an eye". No more, no less. That is why at least in Spanish the " an eye for an eye" is called la ley del talion... In French too

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u/quantumtom 14d ago edited 11d ago

I see. Very helpful.

Flashes of Kubrick.

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u/Breubz 13d ago

Damn this is true but I am French and I had never heard this word before.

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u/quantumtom 13d ago

That's quite interesting. As u/arellan081366 alluded, it seems to fit into a judicial or philosophical context. The term appears closely connected to the work of Michel Foucault.

Je suis très désolé. J'aime la France, mais je parle seulement un peu de français.

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u/Zedaraby 12d ago

C'est "la loi du talion", qui désigne le "œil pour œil, dent pour dent" ^ si je ne me trompe pas le terme de "talion" n'est pas vraiment français c'est un lieu ou une personne historique rattaché à cette loi

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u/FoxTrotte 12d ago

Yeah same haha, but as they mention, could be niche vocabulary