She deserves them all and more.Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is already out in theaters, albeit in a limited capacity. With objective clarity, her coffee mug reveals the new stasis: Her house, her rules, her coffee. Marta stands upon the Thrombey's old mansion, an ode to secrets and lies. As soon as that truth comes out, the games are over. The only way to fix this broken reality, to give Marta's purity its proper path, was to tell the truth about Ransom's horrible games. Ransom, conversely, is introduced from moment one as a person who runs away from every consequence, who does nothing but play games to get out of the actual truth. All she navigated was the present tense of what she believed to be the truth in front of her, the consequences of actions both given their proper respects and never run away from. Marta is the only one who wasn't ever playing any game. It retracts within itself the moment it hits Marta's pure heart, revealing itself with a flourish as nothing more than a toy. Ransom's knife is, of course, a stage prop, not real. But, oh, God, I’d like to fix some of this before I go. Playing life like a game without consequence, until you can’t tell the difference between a stage prop and a real knife. Confident, stupid, I don’t know, protected. In discussing the nature of games (Harlan loved playing Go with Marta), Harlan says this about Ransom as a player: Harlan Thrombey told Marta, and us, explicitly, right before the scene where Johnson "told us explicitly" that Marta had killed him. And we already know Ransom has been the bad guy the entire time. Now, if we've been paying attention, we already know this won't work. If only both parties in that room knew, Harlan wouldn't have slit his throat to protect her, and he would still be alive. Which means that she did not kill Harlan Thrombey.
But Marta, ever the capable and pure-hearted worker and friend, knew innately what the correct vial was, picking it based not on the label but on the subtle difference and detection in appearance and feel. When Ransom found out who was gonna get all the goodies from Harlan's will, he purposefully switched Marta's two medicine vial labels to ensure an overdose would happen and stole an antidote to boot. We watch as Blanc explains carefully - well, maybe not "carefully" but certainly "colorfully" - the truth behind this twisted collection of raw dough: Ransom, whom we thought to be Marta's newfound ally, is the only person in the room guilty of a crime. The donut hole at the center of the donut hole, if you will. And Johnson carefully places a rug back under our feet as he indulges in one of the greatest tropes of the whodunit: The eccentric detective eccentrically describing the truth behind the case. And there is, of course, a blissfully eccentric detective: Benoit Blanc ( Daniel Craighaving the time of his life), a Southern-fried private investigator who's here to sort through the truth (or find the "donut hole," as he's fond of saying) and answer the simple question of "whom has done this?"Īnd then. There's Harlan's greatest ally: his nurse Marta ( Ana de Armas), a woman who is so pure of heart she literally vomits any time she tries to lie. For about half of the running time, like any other whodunit, the central question of the mystery novelist patriarch is indeed as simple as: "Whom has done this?" There are plenty of star-studded suspects in the form of Thrombey's family ( Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, Toni Collette), and plenty of juicy motives for each of them (lack of respect, lack of financial support, discovery of infidelity). Johnson does not pull any such "he was alive the whole time!" plot twist trickery in the final moments. His throat is damn slit, and his blood is all over the damn sofa. Harlan Thrombey ( Christopher Plummer) is dead. RELATED: Madelyn Cline Describes Filming 'Knives Out 2' as "Terrifying" But "Also Incredible" So, I thought I'd help dunk us all into the multiple donuts at the hole of this impeccable picture and its impeccable ending.
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The filmmaker's 2019 murder mystery Knives Outmight be that year's most rewatchable film, a jam-packed ride of smart entertainment full of perfect actors performing a perfect script lensed perfectly. Leave it to Rian Johnson to take something consistently sweet like a donut or a whodunit and twist it into something that's brand new, inventively clever, and still tastes and feels like said donut or whodunit murder mystery.
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