With Glass Onion, Rian Johnson delivers a sequel that's even sharper than Knives Out
All are surprised to see Blanc, a newcomer to their privileged and insular circle, but his invite begins to make more sense when Bron announces that they will be playing an elaborate game to solve the mystery of his untimely,-style murder. But before the game can get underway, old wounds are re-opened and secrets are revealed that complicate this initially cheerful reunion of old friends.
At the film’s start, Bron’s invitation to his guests arrives in the form of an elaborate puzzle box which requires their pooled efforts to open. One imagines that its complexities aren’t much different from the ways that Johnson’s mind works, not just constructing a sophisticated and multi-layered mystery to be solved by the film’s final scenes, but unpacking and deconstructing that puzzle just as easily as Blanc claims he did upon receiving it.
That’s also what distinguishes this film from the dozens of movies made during and about the pandemic that have tried to mine its isolation and inactivity for personal insight. Ultimately, it’s a movie about deciding whether or not to capitulate to the emotional, social, or economic forces that reinforce or validate our worst or weakest or most desperate instincts—and the cost when you do, and also when you don’t.
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