Everything GREAT About Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery!

The overarching plot of this movie of how Blanc is just overcomplicating things in his head, because he has trouble understanding dumb people, is such a fresh take on a detective movie.

Miles throwing the IPad from off screen is another funny callback. In an interview, Rian mentioned that Apple will not allow the bad guy of a movie to handle Apple products on camera. So the ipad has to get thrown from offscreen

My personal favourite "win" was Helen and Andi's names. Firstly, the story takes place in Greece, and they're both named after characters from the Iliad. Andi, aka Cassandra, was named after the Trojan princess who prophesized the city's downfall but who nobody listened to, mirroring how none of the shitheads listened to Andi when she said Klear was a bad idea. Helen was the name of the cause of Troy's downfall, and not only that, the name's literal meaning can be "torch". Going even further, the twins last name, "Brand", also means fire/burning.

Fun fact, this film was Angela Lansbury's last acting role before she passed away last October. That's right, Angela Lansbury, winner of six Tony Awards, an Olive Reward, six Golden Globes, the Academy Honorary Award, 18 Emmy awards, a Grammy, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, National Medal of the Arts, Kennedy Center Honor and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire from a film, theater, and television career spanning seven decades ended her career in a cameo in which she caught Daniel Craig being the imposter in a game of Among Us. Take from that what you will.

Something that just occurred to me: Miles does understand that Klear is dangerous, which is why the alarms went off when Blanc was smoking in the garden. He knows it's highly flammable. That would also be another great allusion to the ending of the movie.

The scene in the bathtub, on the floor is a book called Cain's Jawbone. It's a literal puzzle that required you to re-order all the pages into the right order and solve the murders.And its only been solved three times in 100 years. The fact that it's abandoned on the bathroom floor but intact means Blanc solved it, without needing to take the pages apart, and was so bored that gaming the bathtub was a better option. I saw it at the cinema and full on lost it. Excellent.

15:43 I love the "I'm not Batman" line, because it's specifically in relation to her saying "Google said you were the World's greatest detective," because if you actually google that phrase, Batman is the first hit. This is very meta, but it also tells us that Blanc must have googled "worlds greatest detective" at some point.

It always saddened me that everyone would freak out about the Mona Lisa's loss but nobody even flinched with Andy's death. Priorities....

I love how Helen lashing out near the end perfectly parallels Miles' "remedial" explanation of disruption. The others are fine with her breaking little things, and even join in, but then she breaks some things that they don't want her to (the piano, the Mona Lisa) and then proceeds to break the system itself (the Glass Onion, but also Miles' support structure for all of them.) She's the only real disruptor out of all of them. Also, this quality isn't all violence and punk rock. When she has a genuine heart-to-heart with Whiskey and treats her like a person, that also breaks part of the status quo that everyone else was content leaving as is, with Whiskey just being a pawn for Duke and Miles to move around. She's a great hidden protagonist, and you don't even know it til halfway through.

Something I love is how the Disruptors stop smashing things after a bit but Helen just keeps going. It reflects the idea that some people just say “down with the system” but the only way to actually tear it down is to tear it down. Helen going further is representative of that.

In regard to the Duke Pineapple setup, the first time I saw the movie when Duke started choking my FIRST thought was "Someone get the epipen! Surely he's got an epipen on his person at all times, right?" But at the same time it is also so totally in character for this man who literally takes a pistol into the pool because "you never know when s**t will go down" to neglect to keep an epipen with him despite having a life-threatening food allergy.

My favorite aspect of the wood box is that, on first viewing, it seems really clever and the 'disruptors' seem really smart. But then you realize that these are just, as Blanc puts it, "simple children's puzzles". Hell, the harder aspects are solved by non-disruptors!

Another small detail about the "mate in one" puzzle is: the name for it is the fool's mate, and it's the fastest possible checkmate in chess. (called a fool's mate because you have to be a fool to let it happen)

On my first viewing of this movie, I actually noticed that whenever Andi dresses as Helen, she actually parts her hair the opposite way that Helen did. So subtle and yet so satisfying to find.

One thing I love about this film is that Peg and Whiskey are both more "down-to-earth" than the main rich ones, but they're still, in their own way, clinging to someone richer than them. There's a lot that Peg is overlooking just to have a job with Birdie. They're sympathetic, but still complicit in their own ways.

Another Win you somewhat missed: ALL of the characters' masks reflect them; Blancs' is custom made and classy, Birdie's is completely useless, and Claire's isn't worn properly as you pointed out, but Lionel's is a proper medical mask, Duke and Whiskey are Anti-Mask, and Helen uses a cheap disposable one because that's what she could afford.

I agree, birdie actually being quite knowledgeable and intelligent, but choosing to only know things that relate to herself is so much worse than just being dumb.

I'm very proud that I noticed Miles give Dave Bautista's character (I forgot his name) the poisoned glass on my first watch. I was so confused and gaslit when the movie showed the false narrative that he took Miles's cup.

I love how Miles being stupid is shown from the very beginning by Duke’s mum solving the puzzles straight away. At First you’d assume that she’s just really smart. But on re-watch, you’d realise that she’s just a normal person and everyone else just wasn’t smart.

A really neat win I noticed is in Blanc's first scene, he's outed as the impostor while playing the white Among Us crewmate, and "Andi" is revealed to be Helen while she's wearing a white suit.