I just watched Knives Out because people told me it was just as good as Glass Onion.
It was fun, but not as good. I didn’t buy the whole ‘nice old rich man. All his kids suck so feel bad for him’ thing. Like buddy, you raised them.
Other then that it was awesome, but not as awesome as Glass Onion.
to be clear i mean ‘lesser movies’ that have utterly unhinged twists that are impossible to guess.
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You mean like one of the characters being their identical twin who hired Benoit Blanc to find to find her sisters murderer? Which only gets revealed after the twin sister gets “killed” near the climax.
exactly! but the difference is doing something like that at the final reveal vs. doing it to add stakes & layers to the original parameters. you could still guess the conclusion after the flashback.
its convention to have insane twists because mystery-readers are adept at figuring out the mystery, this stuck a nice wrench into things without undermining a final reveal imo
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That was something that bothered me actually. Secret twins are supposed to be “against the rules” unless heavily lampshaded, not just mentioned in a throwaway.
now that you mention it–true. i think i got too distracted by the performance to notice lol
