Warning: Movie Spoilers Ahead
Trigger Warning: Murder
Welcome back to another week of movie reviews! This week’s topic is… Mystery! Who doesn’t love a good mystery? For the first post, I want to discuss a newer mystery which I immensely enjoyed, just as I enjoyed its predecessor. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) is SO good. The characters - all of which, except for Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) and Helen Brand (Janelle Monae), we love to hate - are hilarious and the script does a really good job of poking fun at itself.
Glass. Onion. A thing with multiple complex layers. Made of glass. Completely see-through. This movie tells you from the get-go that it’s going to layer itself, but that you will never lose sight of the center, and yet by the end of the film you’re left amazed at how you missed the absolute obvious. For anyone who doesn’t know the reference, “Glass Onion” is a song written by the Beatles, in which they poke fun at their audience for trying to see things in their lyrics that weren’t really there, instead of just enjoying the music for what it was and how it existed. A clever metaphor, re-emulated by this movie and the amazing story-telling genius of Rian Johnson.
David Mack, of Buzzfeed News, commented that “Glass Onion is a perfect reminder that great art need not be serious. Sometimes, it’s just about having fun,” and this is an accurate reminder of what this film is. It’s ingeniously self-aware, poking fun at itself and its characters, and is full of twists and turns that seek to blind you to the truth. If only we looked a little closer, saw the truth instead of trying to create it ourselves.
This one is definitely worth a try - give it a shot (pun intended) and let me know what you think in the comments!
Mack, David. “I Am Prepared To See Every “Knives Out”/"Glass Onion" Movie That Is Ever Made.” Buzzfeed News. 2022 December.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/glass-onion-knives-out-netflix-review.
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