Cinema: Knives Out

[nineveh_uk]

In need of something low effort to give me a lift on Saturday, and not having been to the pictures on ages, I took myself off to Knives Out, which was excellent. It started well with the sort of horrendous New England gothic mansion that signals I am going to get something cosily foreign and quaint that is probably signaled by unrealistic red phone boxes in British romcoms. Plus a dash of the late winter griminess that tells you you're watching a murder mystery, of course.

I thoroughly recommend it. Like a lot of films, it would be better for losing 10 minutes, but over all it is well-scripted, well-acted, with a cast of (mostly) appalling people whom it is fun to dislike and a general air of over the topness that works well in the genre. In terms of depth, it is probably one of Harriet Vane's pre-Wilfred novels, and plotwise though it hangs together well it is fair to say that it may be a Christie homage, but inevitably nothing is quite as twisty as Christie.*

This coming Saturday, to make my packing to go away for Christmas even worse, I am going to see Star Wars. The previous SW film was directed by Rian Johnson, as was Knives Out. I am imagining the crossover now.**


*Agatha Christie
Wrote plots that were twisty.
The dame was sublime
At OTT crime.

**There's even an in with the teenage boy being sucked into alt-right YouTube!

Comments

[mountainkiss]

Early Harry Potter is as twisty as Christie.

[nineveh_uk]

Actually, that's fair!

[bronze_ribbons]

>>In terms of depth, it is probably one of Harriet Vane's pre-Wilfred novels

Excellent. I have been dithering on whether to use a movie pass on it, and it sounds like just the thing for where my brain is at. :)

[nineveh_uk]

I hope you enjoyed if it you saw it. That was very much where my brain was at!

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

I saw this recently - very hilarious. I loved Daniel Craig's heavy 'southern' accent. Everyone looked like they were having a ball.