Knives Out is a movie I have been wanting to see for a while now, so when I saw it was a Rose Scholar event, I had to go. The trailer was so riveting and Daniel Craig’s new southern accent was hard to ignore
This was a classic whodunit type of movie, which I dont typically like to see, but this movie was different. All I was doing during the movie was trying to find any little detail I might have missed in each scene. The movie really brought me into the story and was very well made. Suicide was never in any of my theories which I guess make me a bad detective but it was still a very entertaining movie nonetheless.
Craig’s accent definitely stuck out the most to me out of anything from this film, too! I mentioned this in my original blog post in this event, but it still puzzles me to this day as to whether or not he meant for it to sound a little cringeworthy on purpose, or whether it was his genuine attempt at a southern accent. Regardless, I do love a good whodunit film, so I was also pretty enthralled throughout the entire screening.
I loved Daniel Craig’s character’s obsession with donuts. His character was perfect in that it was so over the top that it became a caricature of old timey detectives which I thought was highly unique.
I really loved the film to. Especially the forshadowing where Harlan while taking medicine says ‘playing life like a game without consequence, untill you can’t tell a difference between stage prop and a real knife’ which turned out true at the end for Ransom who was the true murderer!
I love it that you said this is a “who has done it” type of movie. Because correspondingly there’s another type of detective piece that surrounds “this is the murderer, but where is the evidence”? Those differences are the reason why different types of detective literature each fascinates differently.
I thought the ending was very surprising too. I simply had not considered it in any of my thought. It was great to see how Charles was thinking that the entire time though!