We’ll have to agree to disagree with what makes a movie entertaining. One of the reasons I loved this movie is because it completely undermines the lazy, hackneyed tale you just outlined. For a while, when the film was showing that virtually everyone had a motive for wanting Harlan dead, I assumed this was where they were going, and I was so relieved to find out it wasn’t.
Ditto. That would have felt…too farcical. I really liked that Knives Out managed to be funny and lighthearted without being too “zany.”
It’s also worth noting that (hundred-year-old Agatha Christie spoilers alert?) that would have been pretty damn close to the ending of Murder on the Orient Express with a dash of The Mousetrap.
I believe they showed a dramatic spurt when Harlan slit his throat. I believe we are supposed to believe the spray reached all the way to her shoe. I think I recall some comments about how the spatter/spray ruled out homicide (or perhaps just confirmed suicide).
The splatter of the blood (according to the detective) was such that if someone had been there committing the act, it would have been inconsistent with what the blood pattern looked like.
Marta looked too far away from her viewpoint at the door to get that one single tell-tale drop on her sneaker but later when she revisits the room with BB, the room looks a lot smaller than it did before, so it’s a pretty easy thing to forgive imho. Ditto the strength of the fridge magnet to erase the VHS tape so quickly.
Yeah, I’m not sure the descriptor “lazy” should be thrown around without taking into account that the only reason the movie’s plot works is that a character is physically incapable of lying, except for temporary plot-dependent interludes.
?? I’m pretty sure they were consistent with her liepuke. Sometimes she was able to suppress the gag reflex temporarily, but she always appeared to be making an effort to do so, just as people do in real life when they’re trying not to throw up.
It was a ridiculous plot conceit, but I had no problem with the way it was used: instead of being a lazy workaround to plot problems, it was instead used both to drive tension and to enable plot twists. It was a MacGuffin excellently used.
And also for a payoff at the end as she got to throw up on Ransom.
She did that, right? Not just in front of, but on?
Oh, she aimed true.
Watched this tonight and had a great time. All the acting and the twisty plot were right up my alley, and I’ll likely watch it again.
And a sequel is coming!
THIS blood drop bothers me to no end. It makes no sense to me because she absolutely didn’t look close enough to Harlan to get any blood on her shoe. And that tiny spot is supposedly the reason Blanc knows the truth? I didn’t buy that. Without any testing, a spot so tiny could be easily explained away and could have come from anywhere, including Marta’s home.
I enjoyed this video detailing easter eggs in Knives out and you might too: KNIVES OUT 2019 Breakdown! Hidden Easter Eggs & Visual Analysis! - YouTube
It made me realize that when Marta finds Fran dying, Fran can be heard to tell Marta: “You did this” but it’s actually “Hugh did this”.
Saw it last night and loved it. Can we go back to basics for a moment? Why was Harlan disinheriting Linda? What was her transgression/failing?
Spoons out
I think they’re probably planning ahead for the full six movie series:
Pipe Down
Wrench in the Works
Pistol Grip
Corpse Candle
and the stunning conclusion in:
End of the Rope
There wasn’t one. The idea was to “let” his children get out from under his shadow and do something great on their own, rather than rely on his wealth as a crutch. Linda perhaps already had (albeit with a million dollar loan from Dad).
They could do the full
2 Sharp 2 Out
Knives Out: Julienne cut
The Knives and the Out
Knives Five
Knives Out 6
Out 7
The Food ate with Knives
Kn9
Untitled tenth film
Ah. Thank you.
Didn’t they explain that right in the movie itself?
I’ll have to rewatch it. If so, thanks for the correction.
Yes. It was a significant plot point, in the final confrontation with Hugh/Ransom. Marta flashes back to Fran’s last words, and then says something along the lines of, “Fran didn’t say ‘you did this’, she said ‘Hugh did this.’ You always made the staff call you Hugh.”