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IT'S ALL ABOUT CINEMA
Knives Out – or how to make your story less interesting with your music choice
Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” is a country-house mystery that revolves around the death of Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) on his 85th birthday celebration party. The famous crime author is found with his throat cut en famille and Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) comes to solve the case. Once the investigation has started, the movie starts playing with the POV puzzle, creating more complications for the viewer. Interestingly, the movie tries to assimilate part of Agatha Kristy’s and Arthur Conan Doyle’s masterpieces and turn it into a blockbuster hit and it arguably succeeds. The twists are amusing and although that they could be far less striking, they still work as a big puzzle box.
THE QUEEN PASSES OVER HER CROWN
Fans have waited for the third season of Netflix’s The Crown for two long years, only to find out that the series is not about Queen Elizabeth II anymore, but about other royals more like. The previous seasons had us on the edge of our seats, adding more questions at the end of every episode, most of them still unanswered today, but this season seemed colourless, plain. But on the other side, isn’t this what the real royals seem like in their subjects’ eyes?