{"id":8730,"date":"2023-01-21T18:05:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T00:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=8730"},"modified":"2023-01-21T18:05:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T00:05:56","slug":"glass-onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=8730","title":{"rendered":"Glass Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Knives Out<\/a> was probably the last movie I saw with Mary in the theater before Covid happened.[1][2] This is apropos of nothing in particular, just a memory from the before times. For example, here in modernity, we did not see Glass Onion<\/a> in the theater at all, though it got to Netflix with surprising rapidity[3].<\/p>\n

So there’s this tech billionaire guy, who like all tech billionaire guys on film in the past five years is probably a riff on Elon Musk. And he invites all of his friends to his private Greek island for a murder mystery weekend by way of an incredibly fancy puzzlebox. (A literal puzzlebox.) Plus he also invites the world’s greatest detective, Benoit Blanc, which is to say Daniel Craig.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to say more (even if it’s easy to intuit<\/em> more) about the plot. What I can comfortably say is that it’s every bit as clever and as funny as its predecessor, and I would happily watch Craig and Rian Johnson make these movies until the end of time.<\/p>\n

[1] Not the actual last movie I saw<\/em> in the theater, that was The Invisible Man<\/a>
\n[2] (Also, it wasn’t even that; we saw three other movies in between Knives Out<\/em> and lockdown. Huh.)
\n[3] Joke’s on me: apparently it is a Netflix original that had a one week theatrical release. Huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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