In the end, although I had a riotous time with Glass Onion, I ended up preferring Knives Out, too, and for the same reasons! From the old house with the trick window to the "one was in this room when the other was in that room" back-and-forth, there was something so richly hot chocolate satisfying about the murder mystery novel aesthetics of Knives Out, at least for me!
I could not agree more on wanting to see Edward Norton's character get thoroughly destroyed. When the napkin was destroyed, I was expecting some reveal that, oh, it's okay, someone caught it all on camera! but no, what Miles Bron does is absolutely irreversible, so why not make something even more irreversible happen? I love the direction the movie takes in those last twenty minutes. I have always been more or less indifferent about the Mona Lisa as a painting, never giving it too much thought, but Glass Onion made me want to see it burn.
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Date: 2023-01-04 03:12 am (UTC)I could not agree more on wanting to see Edward Norton's character get thoroughly destroyed. When the napkin was destroyed, I was expecting some reveal that, oh, it's okay, someone caught it all on camera! but no, what Miles Bron does is absolutely irreversible, so why not make something even more irreversible happen? I love the direction the movie takes in those last twenty minutes. I have always been more or less indifferent about the Mona Lisa as a painting, never giving it too much thought, but Glass Onion made me want to see it burn.
I respect that!