The Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
I’m not even going to pretend that the anticipation for this movie didn’t almost kill me through most of 2022. I loved Knives Out. Like, really, really. I’ve watched it probably a dozen times in three years. Not just because it’s about the subversion of the genre but because that behaved more as a disruption in that it came with a healthy injection of nuance. It goes beyond the standard mystery and asks, what if the answers to the puzzle are more complicated than the mystery itself? In that first case, we discover that sometimes what is factually true isn’t always as morally wrong as the genre would normally have you think.
Facts don’t stop existing just because you don’t like what they represent.
“I’ve learned through bitter experience that an anonymous invitation is not to be trifled with.”
The Glass Onion is not too much different. It does a good job of distancing itself from the first film, and I think at the risk of abandoning some of the audience of the first movie. This is not a Poirot film - not hating, though, cause I have a big soft spot for the mustachioed Master.
Since it’s been a bit since I’ve done one of these, I want to point out that I don’t really do reviews. I just kind of geek out at shit.
Disruption isn’t just part of the structure of this film, though; it’s inherent in the story. Say what you want about Elon Musk, but the guy has increasingly made himself an easy target for criticism and parody—having been recently weening myself off of the dying bird that is Twitter and moving on to Post.News, this was almost cathartic at times.
Anyway. It’s a great film.
“Also, I want to point out that Glass Onion is also absolutely fucking hilarious. ”
I’m not a James Bond fan. Like at all. That patriarchal bullshit was on the TV in my house growing up almost constantly. While I have actually enjoyed some of the Daniel Craig bond movies, I’m glad he’s done with them because he is a freaking fantastic actor, and it’s great to see him enjoying himself completely.
Also, I absolutely never get tired of Bautista acting. He set out to differentiate himself from his other form wrestling brethren in wanting to be taken seriously as an actor, and every single time, he proves how fantastic at it he is.
I need to create a rating system for this shit. I like almost anything I watch and read. I would say I hate maybe five films that I’ve seen in my entire life. So perhaps something that deals in shoes-or feet.
Two shoes score: It's great because I can get to where I’m going perfectly fine, and that’s awesome.
One shoe score: I can still get there and still mostly in comfort, so it’s still pretty great.
No shoe score: I can still get where I’m going, and that’s cool but not preferable.
No feet score: I can’t walk anywhere, which sucks. I wouldn't say I like it and never want to do it again.
I feel like that’s inherently problematic on multiple levels. Maybe just a silly way of saying I loved it or I hated it.
If it’s not yet apparent, you can find The Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery on Netflix.
I would really like an option to purchase in the future but that might just be the times we live in
“Uh. I guess that it—more cool shit coming in the future.”
