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Knives Out plurk! Will mark where spoilers begin. It's GREAT.
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Fucking phenomenal movie
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a brilliantly-plotted whodunnit that plays with viewer knowledge and suspense in ways I've never seen
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the movie is astoundingly intricate, every moment is important
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nothing is only used once
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Ooh, you've seen this
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I saw it last week, super enjoyed it
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I didn't call the ending but I called one major part of it
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VERY funny
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I sensed some Clue DNA
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one of my favorite movies of all time
Rama
It looked exactly like a spiritual successor to Clue from the poster
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I actually felt a bit of Umineko too, especially during a certain part that I don't feel I should mention before spoilers start
Princess Emily
so is it a mystery or a comedy?
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it's a funny mystery
Princess Emily
(also I've never seen Clue. is that like, an adaption of the baord game???)
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full of extremely awful rich people
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yes it is!
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I should groupwatch it
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Clue is a mystery-themed comedy
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more than a mystery
Princess Emily
I'd be down
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As has been said, Knives Out is SURPRISINGLY political
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in very good ways
EsperBot
The Clue movie is so fucking good
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there's an insufferable alt-right troll boybaby who turns out to be basically completely inconsequential to anything, which I liked
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Anyway!
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It's spoilers time!
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SO
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I didn't guess the identity of the culprit
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but I did guess the double medication swap
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Random thoughts as I remember them
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- When the one creep is calling Marta over to talk about how she's One Of The Good Immigrants who Did Things The Right Way and shit
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he just unthinkingly
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hands her his plate
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he forgot that she wasn't a housekeeper
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what a fucking dipshit
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apparently it was an ad-libbed beat by the actor
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- Can I get a shout out to Knife Halo as the best scenery prop of the year
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- If anything happens to Marta I will kill everyone in the room and then myself
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- The "My House, My Rules, My Coffee" mug finally changing hands to Marta in the final shot as she looks down on the family is
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- The absolute batshit brilliance of showing you Marta "killing" the patriarch really early on, jesus christ
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so that you're anticipating the uncovering of the mystery while also terrified that Blanc will find out the whole time
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Please mention the fact that nobody gets ever Marta's home country right, and in fact everyone thinks it's a different country every time
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YES, GOD
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Do we ever figure out what country she was from? People say Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil but I don't think we ever got a confirmed answer
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god the family is so awful
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I don't think so, no
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The family is awful in SO MANY WAYS
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- A Donut Hole Inside A Donut's Hole, But The Donut Hole Was Another Donut With Its Own Hole
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- I'd watch another five movies of the Further Adventures of Detective B. Blanc
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Even who could be the best of them straight up sold out
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Because $$$
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Meg was the only one who was even KIND of okay
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Also FWIW I actually felt the plot was predictable on a meta level, but in a good way
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Like
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It couldn't be Marta
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no question
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Yeah
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not for logic reasons but because it would fly in the face of the theme of the movie
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about immigrants and awful rich white people
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Yeah, Marta's being a decent person is what exonerates her literally and narratively
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And on a plot structure level, showing Marta and the medswap incident in like act 2 combined with the general genre almost certainly dictates that she isn't the ultimate culprit
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You aren't really trying to figure out if it was Marta or not while watching it
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you're trying to figure out how it can be someone else
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(Also also, there were some loose ends hidden in the patriarch's narration of how she ought to escape)
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Marta winning because she's kind and honest while everyone else is lying constantly was SO good
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(The one I seized onto was "the dogs won't bark, they know you" vs. Meg waking up to the dogs barking and when Ransom was properly introduced with the dogs barking at him I knew)
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the other big obvious one is the super old lady's reaction to Marta
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I actually didn't notice that one!
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"Ransom? You're back again already?"
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But yeah, that was a big one in retrospect
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I dismissed it at the time because Ha Ha Senile Old Lady
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but no
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she was smart
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and she was LIVING
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Everything is relevant
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Also
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The fact that the patriarch's reaction to the med switch is "Ooh that would make a great murder method if it was done on purpose"
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GOD
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I didn't think of that
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yes
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He just deadass explains the plot
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RIGHT THERE IN YOUR FACE
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20 minutes into the movie
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SO YEAH OBVIOUSLY I ENJOYED THIS MOVIE TOO
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Trooper Wagner is my spirit animal
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He is definitely a huge mood
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Oh another thing I enjoyed, since I never made my own plurk about the movie and I'm hijacking yours I guess
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Ransom: [angry rant about Marta getting the inheritance, the house being his ancestral birthright and so on]
Blanc: Please, your grandfather bought this house from a Pakistani realtor in 1980.
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YES
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great moment
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god the script is so good
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In a way it gave me real vibes of that one climax in MP100
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Where Reigen conquers everyone by being the sole adult in the room
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I think one of my favorite aspects of the movie is like. The red herrings aren't red herrings
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They still have effects on the rest of the film
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Also understated but amazing arc in the movie is watching where the baseball goes throughout the film
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yesss
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ends up revealing the invisible ink letter
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I think my only complaint in the movie is that I wish the final reveal scene happened with the entire cast there
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oh same
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I think the scene that got me the most was Walt vs. Marta in the hallway
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We see just awful Walt is and how dumb he thinks Marta is
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That felt super oppressive in so many ways
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"We can use those resources to protect you!" "You mean my resources"
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oh god and one of my favorite observations of the movie is like. What kills Harlan is the same thing the other Thrombeys do
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He thinks he sees and hears her, but he doesn't
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what do you mean?
Niamh Vibes
If he had listened to Marta's pleas that they call an ambulance instead of arranging a cover-up, he'd still be alive
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ah right
Niamh Vibes
apparently Rian Johnson also sneaks a Joseph Gordon-Levitt cameo in all his movies and he's impossible to find in this one unless you know his voice really well
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it's the TV cop from the show Marta's sister watching right
Niamh Vibes
yeah
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Ahem
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Small donut holes
Hazard Kitten
god, Blanc is like a mix of Holmesian deduction and 'fuck you I do what I want' and Colombo's blue-collar mannerisms via the way of Nawlins
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and yeah, the Patriarch essentially explaining the solution reminds me a lot of Three Coffins, Blanc calling Marta "Watson" seem to be a call out to the Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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dammit I was hoping to read Three Coffins some day
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oops!
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I knew you read some carr, didn't realize you didn't read that one
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This sounds like it'd be fucking incredible to groupwatch.
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