Despite the obvious manifestations of modernity in cinematic works, especially in Hollywood, returning to the roots and jumping with them towards the present moment is a distinctive feature of their films, and the movie “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” is one of these works, as it follows a genre A specific literary narrative structure that arose in the twenties of the last century, when there was no cinema in the current form or television.

Perhaps that connection between originality and modernity is what gives the new Hollywood business - whatever its shortcomings - a special taste and a clear and strong personality.

In director Rian Johnson and actor Daniel Craig's new film, "The Glass Onion: Take Out the Knives," the American poet and storyteller "Edgar Allan Poe" from the beginning of the last century met with the legendary singer John Lennon, a member of the Beatles, who was an obsession for the youth of the sixties and seventies of the last century.

The "Glass Onion" was nothing but an expression that the Beatles called one of his songs in the "White Album" album, and it does not carry a deep meaning, as some might indicate.

John Lennon, the star of the team, wrote the lyrics of the song, mocking those who were delving deep into Humayun interpretations that had nothing to do with what the singing team intended, and with great irony the song was issued under the name of Lennon McCartney.

The Beatles were one of the most famous bands in history, during the seventies, with 13 albums released over a period of 10 years from 1960 to 1970.

From spy to informant

British actor Daniel Craig has transitioned from outside intelligence work as James Bond or "007" in British intelligence to inside action as a private criminal investigator under the name Benoit Blanc.

Craig participated in the movie “Knives Out” 2019, but he returned to the character of James Bond in his last movie, “No Time to Die” (2021), and then devoted himself to the character of Benoit Blanc.

The story presented by director and author Rian Johnson in the film with Daniel Craig belongs to what is known as the "detective novel", which is a subgenre of crime and mystery novels that an investigator - whether professional, amateur or retired - works on in a crime, and often What is a murder, and there are many models for these investigators, the most famous of whom was Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and others.

The pioneer of this type of literature was the American poet and storyteller Edgar Allan Poe in the 1920s, and his most famous book in English was Agatha Christie.

The story revolves around an invitation received by 5 of the old friends of billionaire Miles Brown to be his guests on his private island, Greece.

All five have known Ron for a long time and owe him their wealth, fame and current jobs.

Brune plans a dangerous game during the visit, which is to tell everyone that he has been murdered, and they must find out who is the killer.

The real problem is that the five friends had reasons to kill him.

And one exception occurs at the beginning of the journey, which is the presence of Beno Blanc, the greatest private investigator in the world.

The film does not claim any kind of seriousness, but rather fabricates that mysterious invitation to the party for the sake of an entertaining game, and despite that, the entertainment leads us to areas of sadness and joy, love and hatred, false friendships, and wealth in its economic sense in exchange for the wealth of the mind and soul.

montage game

The director used in the montage more than one method of narration, so sometimes we find the dramatic temporal sequence is the ruler, and it is the natural, and sometimes we find a situation that calls for going back and it is permissible and may add beauty to the work and interaction, but he manipulated the montage to make a mystery, and leaves the viewer alone confused, which is a real problem in the work This is because the successful montage is one that the viewer does not feel is there, but the game of concealing and showing information prompted the viewer a vague sense that someone is manipulating him from a dark room.

And seeking a certain emotional impact on the viewer is the first right of the director, and therefore he has the right to rearrange the scenes according to that goal, but that exaggerated confidence and mockery of the viewer prompts some directors to break their laws that they set for work and break that imaginary line that separates respect for the mind of the viewer and disrespect it. .

Perhaps revealing the game of investigator Pino Blanc, so that he could come to the island at the end of the movie, is one of the games that were not necessary, especially since the investigator himself is known to the public, and that he does not have a class that gives him the right to attend, even if the creator of the work justifies that with an unreasonable superficial scene. During which billionaire Brun asks the investigator why he came uninvited, to which Benno replies that he was invited, and offers him an invitation sent to a friend who committed suicide.

In detective novels such as The Glass Onion: Take Out the Knives, the film-maker and literary work would present the police detective as the absolute hero of the action with the largest number of scenes, but the viewer of the film will surely see actor Edward Norton (billionaire Miles Bronn), who gave a wonderful performance printed in Memory is never less than Daniel Craig, but rather increases, although it is "Bron" who is the evil model in the drama.

Perhaps that shared heroism came as a result of the inherited structure in the detective novel, which stipulates that the viewer - or the reader in the case of literature - cannot reach the criminal except at the end of the film through the investigator himself, so Craig was alone in the final scenes of the work to play the role of the true narrator of how the invitation reached him. , and links the data to finally reveal the real killer, which justifies the excessive manipulation practiced by Rian Johnson to postpone information that could reveal the perpetrator until the end, and in return he puts false evidence that raises suspicion in others.

Johnson, who wrote the film, peeled the onion so that each layer revealed a new truth, until he reached the end of condemning the wealthy of technology and the new influencers in societies and emphasizing their falsehood and evil.

A thief billionaire

Most of the film's scenes were filmed in a real hotel and resort called "Amanzoy" after changing its name to "Class Onion", and although it is not located on a Greek island, it still enjoys extraordinary views of the sea with rows of olive groves, which made The scene of receiving guests is wonderful with its amazing backgrounds, and the spaces that created spaces for breathing, and gave the viewer opportunities to contemplate it between the panting of drama and the transfer of murder accusations from one person to another.

Miles Bron is not an ordinary rich person, but he is obsessed with technology, antiques, and all the valuables sold in auction halls, but the movie reveals a parallel truth, which is that he owns his friends, and steals what they own, so that he turned into a billionaire as a result of stealing one idea from a friend, and when she demanded With her rights, she was pushed to commit suicide, so her sister sought revenge by resorting to Pino Blanc.

The five friends are not just rich followers of someone richer, but social media influencers and models, which means their influence on society and the establishment of distorted values.