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.
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
She did act kinda weird, and she showed up in a taxi instead of an expensive rental, but that was “explained” as her being poor because of the lawsuit.
The stoic performance that was punctuated by the drunken outburst about the “Disruptors” speech. All made sense for an angry ex-business partner.
The second act reveal just subverted those preconceptions, and served as another layer of distraction from the very obvious answer. The movie wasn’t about solving a mystery, the mystery had already been solved, it was about subverting the power of the culprit to bring them down.
