Has the new Knives Out movie been discussed?
Very smart very tightly packaged mystery. Maybe too smart and too tightly packaged for me as far as having a chance at solving the mystery. Felt like it was really aimed as a homage for everyone who has read every single Agatha Christie novel ever. But with that being said, every single clue made perfect sense, and was perfectly obvious, but to me only in retrospect. That to me is kind of the hallmark of a good mystery, I only prefer them where I have a bit more of a sporting chance of figuring the whole thing out. I never really had a chance in this one.
I think what I liked about it was it completely avoided "red-herring" clues which I find really distasteful in mysteries (it takes zero effort or talent to sprinkle in 6 clues of which 5 are red herrings and only one is real, with no way to tell which is which until the denouement).
Instead this mystery is complex because of the sheer number of clues continuously dropped, all of them perfectly valid. So many that you lose track of them all and forget about important ones when it comes time to figure out the mystery. I really admire that, even if my short attention span meant I had zero chance of solving the mystery.
