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Knives Out
    2019-12-04  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

《利刃出鞘》

Written and directed by Rian Johnson, comedy thriller* “Knives Out” is a treat from start to finish.

At the beginning of the film, Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), the world’s best-selling mystery writer, is found with his throat slit the morning after his 85th birthday party.

The key figure here is Detective Benoit Blanc played by Daniel Craig. While the cops are ready to call Harlan’s death an open-and-shut suicide case, Blanc suspects foul play*, and as he gathers evidence*, everyone becomes a suspect. At the very least, almost everyone appears to have had a motive, even more so once the reading of the will freezes them out of the multimillion-dollar estate*.

Harlan’s daughter Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a real estate expert married to smug playboy Richard (Don Johnson). Their son Ransom (Chris Evans) is the black sheep* of the family, a playboy whose idle ways are frowned upon by a clan who like to regard themselves as self-made entrepreneurs. Linda’s brother Walt (Michael Shannon) manages his father’s publishing empire, though not with an entirely free hand, while his teenage son Jacob (Jaeden Martell) keeps busy trolling* liberals on social media. Harlan’s daughter-in-law Joni (Toni Collette) is a lifestyle guru who runs a health, beauty and spiritual wellness empire.

While the movie opens with Harlan’s housekeeper (Edi Patterson) finding him dead, recaps of the previous evening’s birthday celebration from multiple viewpoints allow Harlan to reveal the truths about his family members.

One major puzzle is who hired Blanc with an anonymous* envelope full of cash and why. The detective then enlists Harlan’s trusted nurse Marta (Ana de Armas) to serve as Watson to his Holmes, and her presence among the wealthy Thrombeys allows the writer-director to stir in some clever class commentary, taking aim at white entitlement*. There’s a very funny running joke about how none of them can remember which Latin American country Marta’s mother is from.

The audience is treated with a surprise when the mystery is completely solved, because as Blanc describes it, the case is complicated like “a donut hole within a donut hole” in the middle.(SD-Agencies)

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