Knives Out 2 Can't Repeat The First Movie's Greatest Mystery Trick
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Knives Out.
Knives Out 2 can’t repeat the greatest trick that the first Knives Out plays on its audience. Knives Out revolves around Daniel Craig’s detective, Benoit Blanc, investigating the mystery of who killed author Harlan Thrombey and becoming embroiled with Thrombey’s wealthy and dysfunctional family. The devious plotting that writer and director Rian Johnson employs in Knives Out was a hit with audiences, its current Rotten Tomatoes audience score sitting at 92% — but that popularity means that he will have to change up his formula for the sequel.
The central trick in Knives Out happens about half an hour in, during a flashback. The scene shows Marta Cabrera, Harlan’s nurse, seemingly giving him an overdose of morphine by accident, leaving him with only minutes to live. During that time, Harlan concocts a plan to make it look like suicide so that Marta and her undocumented family are left alone by authorities. Knives Out then twists into a Hitchcock-style suspense thriller, where Marta is left to try and hide the truth from the Thrombey family after he leaves her his inheritance. However, in the last act, Knives Out takes another gear shift, when Benoit Blanc reveals that Harlan’s medications were switched by his grandson, Ransom Thrombey, who had anonymously hired Blanc to expose Marta and get her name taken off the inheritance.
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Knives Out combines both the Hitchcock suspense thriller and the traditional Agatha Christie mystery to create a constant push and pull of genre, and a conflict of interest for the audience. Rian Johnson has explained that his inspiration for Knives Out came from the question:
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