Dinner with crime - Knives Out it's a film about death and despair: we're kidding! How you will learn by watching the film "My home, my rules, my coffee", in the same way we wanted to ambush you! The film unfolds in one hundred and thirty minutes, a respectable duration given the stellar cast that appears on the screen: Daniel Craig this time he does not appear as 007, but in those of the detective Benoît Blanc, while Chris Evans leaves the shoes of Captain America to dress those of Ransom Drysdale-Thrombey. The two are accompanied by many other interpreters, which we list below (they are really too many to dwell on each one):
- Ana de Armas: Marta Cabrera
- Jamie Lee Curtis: Linda Drysdale-Thrombey
- Michael Shannon: Walter “Walt” Thrombey
- Don Johnson: Richard Drysdale-Thrombey
- Toni Collette: Joni Thrombey
- Lakeith Stanfield: ten. detective Elliot
- Katherine Langford: Meg Thrombey
- Jaeden martell: Jacob Thrombey
- Christopher Plummer: Harlan Thrombey
- Noah Segan: agent Wagner
- Edi Patterson: Fran
- Riki Lindhome: Donna Thrombey
- K Callan: “Nana” Thrombey
- Frank Oz: Alan Stevens
So many possible motives, one killer
Harlan Thrombey is a famous writer of detective novels, rich to suck, with a truly unique "extended" family: at first glance all his children are geniuses in their field, he lives with a nurse and a maid in a mansion that "looks like a Cluedo billboard". Everything goes smoothly at a family dinner when old Thrombey decides to do a sort of "cleaning" in the family: cut off the food for all his children, which in his view will make them "free from paternal authority. ". The problem is that the day after dinner Harlan won't wake up anymore and, although the suicide hypothesis is the most accredited by the police, the detective Benoît Blanc doesn't think so, and here he is ready to investigate by questioning any suspicious person… that is, everyone! From a plot point of view, the film is worthy of one of the best cases of Sherlock Holmes and is really full of details that could escape even a watchful eye: however, know that it is possible to put the pieces together and discover the killer if take a good look at the unfolding of the sequences.
Perfect setting and choir
Dinner with crime - Knives Out it is an ensemble film and the difficulties of bringing such a product to the screen are always lurking: for example, one actor could take over the other on the stage, involuntarily. Well, we can say that in this case nothing of the kind happens: everyone is really protagonist and there is no one who prevails over the other. Sure, the figure of Daniel Craig is more often on the screen than the others, after all, it is he who guides us in this intricate network of lies and deceptions, although the real protagonist of the scene is not exactly the current James Bond but Marta Cabrera, Thrombey's nurse, played by an excellent Ana de Armas. The scenography and the setting are rich in details, details that to be fully savored will require more than a vision: rooms full of paintings, chairs and elements that tell us about the life - and death, in this case - of the writer Thrombey. Not only scenic details, even the individual dialogues between the protagonists are excellently structured to the point that a thriller aficionado could come to unmask the killer before Craig does. Music and photography are great, so much so that they seem to be sewn onto the weft. This is a film that teaches different morals, but of course everything is in the eye of the beholder. It will also get you several laughs that will ease the tension a little and will be your breaths of air.
