I'll start this off.
Glass Onion; a knives out mystery.
It's the second film involving the detective Benoit Blanc. The first one was old super rich grandfather murdered by family member before he changes the will trope; and this one was rich spoilt travellers in shut off location murder trope. Except the plot is flipped halfway through to a different type of story. I'm not so keen on this sort of thing being done. I much prefer to settle down to a style of journey that I'm expecting. If I'm going for a gentle row on a lake followed by a picnic, I don't want to end up at a drugged out rave instead. Despite this I think the film really only fell apart at the end. Most have applauded the film, others have attacked it. I think It's best to keep in mind for the haters that this isn't really set in the real world. Covid masks maybe worn at the beginning, but there's, say for example, no way anyone's allowed to have a hand gun in Greece let alone going through their airport with one and the Louvre certainly aren't going to loan out the Mona Lisa. You just need to roll with it.
What was more interesting for me was the fact that the movie lies, and that my memory adjusted to compensate for it. It's common in whodunnits for suspects to lay out for the viewers false narratives, but Glass Onion lies within its own history. The same scene can be shown twice, but different things can happen in it. In one of them my memory edited it so that recall of the same event was a closer shot so that another character couldn't be in view later, but on reviewing it this wasn't the case. It was actually the same composed shot; shot from the same place. Who knows why the director did this, perhaps he just like playing tricks on the audience.
Glass Onion; a knives out mystery.
It's the second film involving the detective Benoit Blanc. The first one was old super rich grandfather murdered by family member before he changes the will trope; and this one was rich spoilt travellers in shut off location murder trope. Except the plot is flipped halfway through to a different type of story. I'm not so keen on this sort of thing being done. I much prefer to settle down to a style of journey that I'm expecting. If I'm going for a gentle row on a lake followed by a picnic, I don't want to end up at a drugged out rave instead. Despite this I think the film really only fell apart at the end. Most have applauded the film, others have attacked it. I think It's best to keep in mind for the haters that this isn't really set in the real world. Covid masks maybe worn at the beginning, but there's, say for example, no way anyone's allowed to have a hand gun in Greece let alone going through their airport with one and the Louvre certainly aren't going to loan out the Mona Lisa. You just need to roll with it.
What was more interesting for me was the fact that the movie lies, and that my memory adjusted to compensate for it. It's common in whodunnits for suspects to lay out for the viewers false narratives, but Glass Onion lies within its own history. The same scene can be shown twice, but different things can happen in it. In one of them my memory edited it so that recall of the same event was a closer shot so that another character couldn't be in view later, but on reviewing it this wasn't the case. It was actually the same composed shot; shot from the same place. Who knows why the director did this, perhaps he just like playing tricks on the audience.