Knives Out had me with the directness of its setup: a fancy manse; a rich, dysfunctional family; and a shocking murder in need of a solution. In walks Detective Benoit Blanc (played by Daniel Craig), a master crime-solver with a résumé as thick as his southern accent. “I suspect foul play … I have eliminated no suspects,” he intones when asked why he’s there. The writer and director Rian Johnson, who assembled this project quickly after spending years in the franchise-filmmaking trenches with The Last Jedi, initially seems to be seeking out simplicity—a traditional drawing-room whodunit right out of Agatha Christie’s library. But the fun really begins when Knives Out starts flouting its genre’s rules.
Knives Out (2019) 8/10🗡🚪💉💸 'Rian Johnson successfully revives the 'whodunnit' mystery subgenre with this perfectly cast fun time, even if it doesn't bring anything groundbreaking to the table.' Knives Out is the kind of 'whodunnit' film that will never fail to entertain.
That inventiveness shouldn’t be too surprising given Johnson’s career. Starting in 2005 with his breakout debut, Brick, a teenage noir homage, he’s been a filmmaker who draws from the classics but gives them sparkly new packages. Even The Last Jedi challenged the storytelling conventions of the long-winded Star Wars saga with humor and pique, rather than just reaffirming them (and stunned many a fan as a result). While Knives Out is a more straightforward proposition, a murder mystery that ties up every loose end, many of its best thrills come in the narrative hairpin turns Johnson makes along the way.
Knives Out Outcome
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The film keeps the crucial tropes of a Christie plot, namely ostentatious wealth, a cast of colorful characters with blaring personality disorders, and a cunning detective who lives only to crack the case before him. Yet it’s set in the present day, dispensing with the antiquated fortunes of Poirot’s usual suspects. Instead, Johnson conjures a coterie of modern, rich buffoons—all of them related to the successful crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), who is found stabbed on the night of his 85th birthday.
Who could’ve done it? There’s Harlan’s daughter-in-law, Joni (Toni Collette), a self-styled lifestyle guru who dispenses quack medical advice that even Gwyneth Paltrow would wrinkle her nose at. His daughter, Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis), is a real-estate mogul who constantly brags about being “self-made” despite receiving her father’s support. Harlan’s son, Walter (Michael Shannon), runs his dad’s publishing company, where his entire job seems to consist of printing and selling his father’s latest masterpiece. Even the grandkids, who include the handsome-jerk playboy Ransom (Chris Evans) and the taciturn alt-right-troll teenager Jacob (Jaeden Martell), are curdled in their own ways. Amid all the chaos and bickering, Marta (Ana de Armas), Harlan’s live-in nurse, gets patronizing head pats from the rest of the family but is otherwise largely ignored.
Detective Blanc is ostensibly the film’s hero and serves as the audience’s surrogate, interrogating family members and sniffing around for clues. But Marta is the heart of the movie—a character who might easily be dismissed as a stock supporting role, but whom Johnson plants in the foreground. There’s no subtlety to Johnson’s message: The film champions a hardworking daughter of immigrants in a film about upper-class snobs scrambling to secure their inherited wealth. This is 2019, and one of the villains is a pale teen boy who posts offensive invective on Twitter.
But the detective genre has never been subtle. It’s a world where the investigator is intelligence personified and the suspects (as well as the viewers) are his captive audience, waiting for the answers to be revealed after two hours of careful deduction. Through Marta and Detective Blanc, who become impromptu partners in search of the truth, Johnson is telling a story about what justice might look like in America today—while also having plenty of fun.
Knives Out Outakes
The film’s advertising has obscured almost every detail of the plot besides the absolute basics, a difficult achievement today. So I’ll say only that while Knives Out is a whodunit with a twist ending, it’s just as concerned with why and how the murder was done as it is with the killer’s identity; the seemingly huge pieces of information dropped early on turn out to be small pieces of the puzzle. The art of a cinematic murder mystery is to make the act of putting clues together seem suspenseful and worth watching. In the hands of Craig at his most gleeful, de Armas at her career best, and Johnson oozing love for the genre, Knives Out rises splendidly to the task.
Family Feuds
Harlan does not have good relationships with any of his family; in fact, it's not surprising that he wrote them largely out of his will in favor of his much nicer nurse, Marta. The fact that his family are still surprised by this course of action speaks volumes about them, and the kind of people they are. They feel that despite their behavior they are still entitled to their father's estate, which sort of sums up why he disinherited them in the first place.
Harlan doesn't like his son in law because he's a cheat, and is having an affair whilst married to Harlan's daughter ,Linda. He threatens to expose his cheating, and he does not like his daughter-in-law much either, because she has been stealing from him. He has cut off his son, Walt, and fired him from the family company. His relationship with his grandchildren is no better; he and his grandson are fighting.
Where there's a will, there's a relative
Harlan's children are more interested in him now he is dead than they ever were when he was living and each goes to great lengths to try to get their hands on the money in his estate. Ransom, his grandson, thinks outside the box, befriending Marta so that he can split the inheritance with her down the middle. The older Thrombeys put a lot of pressure on Marta to renounce the inheritance. Walt goes a step further and threatens to report Marta's mother to authorities for being an undocumented immigrant.
Evidence Sometimes Lies
Not all evidence pointing to guilt turns out to be evidence pointing to guilt. Sometimes, a piece of circumstantial evidence is just circumstances that conspire to make a person look like they have done something illegal when they have not. For example, Marta assumes she has killed Harlan because she knows she lost concentration when preparing his medication, and that he died after this. She concludes that his impending death is her fault, and assumes the identity of murderer, when in fact, she didn't make a mistake at all. She gave him the correct medication and played no role in his death.
Benoit sees blood on Marta's shoes and believes it suggests she killed Harlan, but although she was there, and his blood splashed onto her footwear, she was standing next to him during his suicide, and did not participate in his death. Similarly, when Harlan's mother sees Ransom climbing down from Harlan's room, she assumes he is escaping the scene of the crime after committing her son's murder.