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The Title 'Eating Raoul'... (probably obvious spoilers inside)


The Title "Eating Raoul"... gives away too much about the ending of the movie. Commercially speaking, it may work at some level, since I must admit that it is catchy. But, since eating Raoul, is something that happens at the end of the movie and quite unexpectadly, it ruined the surprise for me, and I assume for everybody else as well.

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I didn't find the title alone to be a spoiler. Unless you're attempting to think ahead of the movie. The title has no correlation to what's going on in the movie until the very end. Because Raoul is a main character, as well as an accomplice in the plot.
.. Now "Killing Swingers" would have been a spoiler title, as well as a dead giveaway.


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Anybody could look at the title, put two and two together, and figure that something to do with Roul being eaten happens at some point in the movie, either literally, or metaphorically. But how it happens is never alluded to.



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True, almost everybody was being killed with a frying pan, so if Raoul gets it in the end, we can assume that's how he's killed. But we're never lead to believe how he will be 'eaten' one way or another. The ending was the one and only reference to cannibalism in the whole movie after all... Unless you count the family in the TV ad eating the same brand of dog food that is using the bodies for meat, lol. 'Eating Raoul' is one of those vague titles that could almost be a metaphor. Not that the film was intended to be a big suspense.



" Cristal, Beluga, Wolfgang Puck... It's a f#@k house."

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