The high reputation movie "The Knife Out" was released. My sister's feelings after watching it: so enjoyable! So exciting! Want a second brush! No wonder it has 96% freshness of rotten tomatoes , and Douban's current score is also quite impressive: 8.4.
The film’s director Ryan Johnson has directed "The Ring Messenger" and "Star Wars: The Last Jedi", and has also served as the co-director of the third and fifth seasons of "Breaking Bad". .
Look at the actors, "007" Daniel Craig, "American Team" Chris Evans, veteran movie star Christopher Plummer, "horror movie queen" Jamie Lee Curtis , Anna de Armas , who played "Joy" in "Blade Runner 2049", etc., with big celebrities gathering and gods fighting, this cast of cast can be regarded as the annual peak!
After all, without seeing the film, it’s really hard to imagine that the agent "007" becomes a local detective with a southern accent, and the "American team" becomes a bohemian and scheming family man. These contrasts are enough to hang people. Appetite.
returns to the film itself. The film is based on the death of a well-known crime novel writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) after his 85th birthday party. It is played by detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig). ) The detective pushes the plot to solve the mystery.
and the suspects in the case are the family of the novelist Harlan Thrombey.
and the caregiver Marta Cabrera (Anna de Armas) who takes care of Harlan.
seems to be a simple suspense reasoning movie, in which detectives unearth the truth.
But the film is cleverly set up in the structure, the rhythm is appropriate, and the details are maddening . The interlocking sense of urgency and the cynical black humor achieve each other, subverting the audience’s original stereotype of this type of film. The surprise came.
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can be said that the whole film is definitely the gospel of detail control , and the multiple times echoes so that the whole film can see its rigor while being funny. For example, Harlan's portrait appeared three times before and after.
But a careful person will find that Harlan was full of sadness in the portrait twice during the investigation process, and when the truth was revealed, the portrait of the old man showed a smile.
is like the baseball thrown out of the window by the old man's son-in-law Morris Bristow (Don Johnson) , and then picked up by detective Benoit, and finally transferred back to the father's daughter Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis) In the hands of , she discovered the fact that her husband had cheated.
The favorite echo of my sister is still the cup that says "MY HOUSE, MY RULES, MY COFFEE" (my house, my rules, and my coffee) that began to appear in the movie.
When the carer Marta inherited the inheritance, she also held the cup. Interestingly, her fingers covered the next two sentences, leaving only the first sentence "MY HOUSE". It's not an exaggeration to say that
is careful, and some of the details may indeed be overlooked by the first time people.
But there is one item that you will never ignore, just like the name of the movie "The Knife Out of the Sheath", knives and connect the whole movie.
This is the knife used by Harlan to cut his throat to commit suicide. It can be said to be a switch for the origin of the case.
This is also the knife on the wall of the old writer's living room.
At the same time, Harlan also hinted at the beginning of the line to distinguish whether this is a knife for acting or a real knife, which also paved the way for his grandson Ransom Robinson (Chris Evans) .
Speaking of this, I still have to talk about this knife wall, which is very thorny in the sceneEyes, but those who have seen "Quanyou" must be familiar with it- Iron Throne.
"The Knife Out of the Sheath" creates such an iron throne-like decoration, which also seems to be used to satirize the undercurrents in this seemingly friendly and harmonious family of four generations. Everyone is selfishly striving for benefits, burying darkness, and creating illusions.
In addition to "Power Tour", the film also has many tribute eggs, mentioning classic repertoires such as "Hamilton" and "Four Seasons Murder".
In terms of space furnishings, the integration of related horror elements is also very clever, supporting Harlan's personality as a mystery novelist.
It's no wonder that the detectives around Detective Benoit didn't forget to spit out: He simply lives in a crime movie.
is like all suspense that has to be reversed in order to attract attention, "Knife Out of the Sheath" is no exception, but from the beginning, uses God's perspective not many! The
watching the movie soon let the audience see the real scene and reason of the death of the old man, which also makes people start to look forward to how the detective discovers the truth.
So... as expected! Fall into the screenwriter's trap, and this trap has a nice name- donuts.
borrowed the words of a detective: there is a loophole in the center of the case, like a donut, missing the most central part.
is more interesting, when you think you have found the most central part, you will find that that part is another doughnut with holes in the middle, and so on.
Of course, this also implies the reversal brought about by the film. One time is definitely not enough, but time and time again, at least the last ten or twenty minutes really showed blood spurting! The biggest reason why
mobilizes people's emotions is that the film also makes the audience inevitably fall into this doughnut.
We think that God holds the truth from the perspective of God, but we did not expect that the hole in the middle will make us one step away from the truth, so there is panic, crisis, and beauty.
Besides, setting aside the line of solving crimes, I think what makes even more chilling is the family relationship, class, and political issues, which are straightforward exposures of human nature. The cause of death of
does not seem to be the darkest, but the darker is the heart of everyone in the film.
In Harlan's birthday party and detective inquiry, everyone said that Marta is treated as family, but in fact they don't even know where Marta is from Ukraine or where.
When they learned that the inheritance would be inherited by Marta, their first reaction was to let her return, and all kinds of doubts whether she had any conspiracy with the old man, and even said, "You little bitch, you are too mean "Such vicious words. The class antagonism in the
movie is also very clear. Obviously, the local detectives and South American immigrants with a southern accent were the winners, while the white and wealthy people who thought they were noble were driven out of the house.
uses the film to satirize politics and society, which is sharp and true.
This is a Agatha, Conan Doyle-style movie, like "Rashomon" , looking for the truth in layers of mist.
This can't help but make people think, the important thing is, is it really the truth? Is what we found really the truth? Detective
Benoit said: I only observe facts, I do not rely on emotions, and I do not believe in reason.
