On an unrelated note: as the child of a teacher who was struggling massively during the height of COVID in the UK, I found it monumentally satisfying to see a the main character, an elementary school teacher being forced to work during the pandemic, be the one to completely eviscerate a stuck-up, incompetent billionaire who recklessly tries to dodge the pandemic by fucking off to an island. Possibly my favourite ending from a 2022 film.
My favorite part of the movie is at the end when Helen starts smashing everything, which inspires the rich characters to start smashing things for fun as well as a petty way to get back at Bron, but after they're all satisfied Helen just keeps going, because she's not looking for petty revenge, she's looking to actually ruin Bron and destroy what he has. It shows the difference between bourgeois self motivating and satisfying participation in social movements and legitimate proletarian direct action against the system itself.
Lady Jenevia also pointed out that Miles' speech about disruption & Helen's rampage mirror each other. The whole time, she is picking at the threads of their society until she finally breaks the one thing no one wanted her to. It's some of the most fantastic, simple writing we've gotten all year.
While I don’t agree with the whole ideology of “taking down the system”, I do enjoy the jab at the narcissistic celebrities who only join movements as a photo op.
Except she then literally destroys the most famous painting in existence, a huge part of French and Italian cultural heritage, and which didn’t belong to not-Musk, all in an effort to discredit him… So yeah, let’s destroy great and completely unrelated masterpieces to ruin a single guy, I’m sure it’s totally worth it
One of my favourite forshadowings in the movie is that when Blanc is in the bath he says that his mind is a fueled up race car and he's got nowhere to drive it, that he needs a great case and then when they're talking about Miles' car, Miles says it's on the roof because there's nowhere to drive it on the island.
something interesting is that we hardly get to know the real andi, and in some ways it seems like even she was afraid to destroy the system that gave her the power she had. she was too tangled up in the system to destroy it. she probably could've taken down miles, she could've taken down the people who lied to protect him, and she likely could've survived. but she sent them all a picture and gave them a last chance to "make things right". andi invited miles into her house that day and sat down with him. it's obviously not her fault that he killed her, but it may have been aviodable. throughout the film, they keep saying how andi "isn't acting like herself" whenever she's agressive and confrontational and only when she walks away from the fight with duke does he say "there's the andi I know". andi was a rich, busniess-savy woman who rightfully earned her success... but even she wasn't truly "disrupting" anything. it took helen who was completely removed from this world of money and influence to truly be able to end miles bron. andi made the mistake of trusting miles when she first met him, telling her friends to "give him a chance", and trusting miles was also the last mistake she ever made. i liked this film on my rewatch so much better and I might even rewatch again.
This is an awesome piece of analysis! Another side of Andi I've read some people mention that works in line with your analysis is when Helen said that her sister became the "rich bitch" character which used to be the caricature-like role they used to play as kids that was essentially mocking the way the rich act. It seems that at some point Andi, upon becoming the rich bitch had seemly also fit the mold of the rich type that has continued to uphold the structure of the system and wasn't actually a true disrupter, like you mention. Of course, Andi was wise enough to walk away from the Klear deal that Miles wanted to sell their whole company for, which was smart of her, but in the end, the disruption she could have caused by revealing the truth of the envelope was undercut by the fact that she decided to play within bounds and within the confine of a structure in order to let her fellow disruptor "make things right".
I thought the Mum solving the box was an example of untapped hidden talent, like Helen. Helen is trapped by whatever into her limited life, alcohol only really unleashes our inner selves and removes the social conditioning. Which should concern some people.... She's actually incredibly smart and wise, she just holds herself back. The Mum solving the puzzles implies that she's really smart but was held back by the times she grew up in.
My favorite line from the movie is: “INBREATHIATE…not a word” followed by a flashback of Blanc agreeably nodding in the background to Miles when he said it
I thought it was interesting he insulted the simplicity of the puzzles but we later found out the box he "received" was already destroyed. There's no way he could have known how difficult the puzzles were. Was the insult intended to build himself up or tear the host down?
I don't think Bron had any idea what the puzzles were, and the gang solved them as a group. To be honest, I think they would have been more impressed if Benoit just told them he smashed his way through the box. "Oh, why didn't we think of that?"
Id say that Benoit lied about the box because 1. Letting Bron know he received a broken box could hurt his investigation and spoil the ruse. 2. The remaining pieces of the box were likely somewhat recognizable and some were definitely childish looking. 3. Most puzzles are child’s play to Benoit Blanc, so it wouldn’t be unexpected for him to make the comment. 4. It’s a good way to test how Bron reacts, and legitimately helps point towards the conclusion of the movie.
@@TheRockhead9 Agreed. The broken box would certainly contain pieces of what Benoit could easily determine were puzzles. Regardless of how hard they actually were, it would be believable to Bron that these puzzles would be child's play to the world's greatest detective. However, I would push back on your third point. I think Benoit calling them "child's play" is also supposed to be ironic. Based on the mother's ability to easily solve the puzzles so easily, it's implied that they aren't even hard, and based on what we see of Benoit in his introduction, and elsewhere in the movie, we know he's actually quite bad at "stupid" things. So he actually may *not* have found them "child's play," and Helen breaking the box shows how she's able to solve puzzles that would otherwise escape Benoit because she doesn't buy into the pretense of Bron's genius.
1:20 being stupid and being Intelligent are not mutually exclusive. People can show high cognetiv capability and high levels of stupidity at the same time. Sometimes even in the same action.
In cases like me I have a lot of knowledge, but then there’s also times where I try to go through a door without opening it. Smart but stupid, sheer accident and bad luck, but sometimes it’s hard to tell when it’s outside force or just self inflicted
Sometimes I see a door and I assume its locked without ever trying the handle. I think our own expectations and assumptions can really make us look dumber than we are. Although you could argue that yes, I am a dumbass for never trying the handle and y’know what fine maybe I am stupid *sob*
The fact it keeps repeating the facts, the disruption of our protagonist while the rest fall in line with what's required of them, all links back to one small motif in the movie. The Fugue. It's used in the score, it's in the puzzle box, and every time it shows up, it's layered differently. The way it's mixed together changes each time, just like how the disruption goes from hammer, to words, to eventually smashing and burning. It's a beautiful representation of the concept of the full movie. Each layer of the movie is beautiful, but it's so easy to see right through to its core, but people get distracted by the reflections of each layer
My favorite line, sure it’s mostly a throwaway, but “that’s hard kombucha! That’s JARED LETO’s hard kombucha!” Made me laugh so dang hard on my first viewing
I watched this movie at TIFF. When Blanc said that line about speaking without thought, my audience clapped and cheered. I'm used to people applauding celebrity cameos and jokes and epic fight scenes or whatever, but never a well-written line.
My first impression after seeing 40 minutes of this film was “Modern Day ‘And Then There Were None’”? But it really turns the mystery on its head. It wasn’t intricate or complicated, it was in plain sight.
I can see a lot of "And Then There Were None" in the basic setting but the plot is different. 1/ The being trapped on an island where the inability to leave is a plot point. 2/ The first death happening off-screen before the story starts. 3/ The first death we witness is a childish man choking to death on a drink. 4/ Everyone is guilty of a crime that they got away with. 5/ The childish device of a nursery rhyme and a mystery game. The movies are homages to classic mysteries.
I loved when Blanc at first said Miles isn't an idiot; he wouldn't kill Andi following such a large court case. Then in the Glass Onion, he says he's realized that Miles is a big idiot!
If not the best line, the most memorable line, for me, has gotta be "That's... Jared Leto's Hard Kombucha." Everytime I see or think of kombucha, probably for the rest of my life, I'll hear Daniel Craig's voice as Benoit Blanc saying "That's Jared Leto's Hard Kombucha." Beyond that... the lines that keep coming to my mind are "Inbreathiate... is not a word." and "Miles Bron is an idiot!"
I just watched this movie last night. The ending in which the "disruptors" side with "Andy" (Helen) against their patron rings a bit hollow to me. They haven't had any change of heart and are just following her because they perceive her as the bigger "disruptor." And moreover, if they were called to swear to what they profess at the end (I saw the napkin; I saw him with the gun, etc) their words are not worth anything. They lied under oath already. That said I still enjoyed the movie. This morning I now notice the double-meaning behind "my murder" in the invitations at the start.
No, they haven't had a change of heart. They're followers who think they're disruptors, they just found someone new to follow. Claire and Lionel also both wanted a way out of Miles' hold on them because his dumbass nature was about to sink them. They were primed to turn on Miles, not to change who they are or how they act.
I personally found the ending quite poignant. No, they have not had a change of heart and that is part of the point. As Helen pointed out earlier in the movie, they all supported Miles and lied for him in the trial because that was the most beneficial thing to do for their own success at thst moment. I don't really think they viewed themselves as "disruptors", that's just some BS Miles sprouts. They obviously don't really support Helen's actions at the end of the movie. They join in for a little while to break some glass, but when she still keeps going they try to stop her. The only reason they "side" with her at the very end, is because at that point its more beneficial for them to throw Miles under the bus. He is ruined and their just wanting to save their own skin. They are still bad people. I thought it was very interesting social commentary.
I think that's the point; it's not a heroic change of character, they only agree to side against Miles once it becomes clear that his golden titty is all dried up AND that there's no longer any real proof of their own perjury. The napkin would be the only evidence of their own perjury, and with it gone, they're very unlikely to face any consequences for it.
They're doing what they always did, looking out for themselves. Miles lost his power and his going to be going down in the public eye at the very least and maybe even financially, and if they don't turn on him now they'll go down with him. It's all about survival.
i think people are skipping over claires role a little too much- she is a politian who endroes miles product to make money (which is basically everyone in politics) but the movie itself doesnt really point out that when his product (ultimately) fails how it is gonna affect her and her political campaign- the only time she seems to be called out is when one of the charcaters mention that shes a politician going to a private island in the midt of a pandemic- i wouldve loved to see more commentary on her tbh
I would just add, duke and birdie aren't the same in their "truth telling". Birdie doesn't want to think about what she says, duke thinks about what people want to hear him say. He doesn't actually believe his whole alpha bullshit it's just a means to an end for him as evidenced by his "consensual cuckoldry" ( as Leblanc puts it). Even his speech about the boobification of the country, disrupting the natural order but selling boner pills, nature says if you are unable to reproduce unassisted then you are unfit to do so. I'd also say something about him calling himself a disruptor but defending gender status quo but again I don't think he believes it.
"But Birdy is intelligent in certain ways." Now who's insulting her? She's not intelligent in any way, she thought a sweatshop made sweatsuits and her grand plan in dealing with it was to take Bron's 30 million deal and walk away.... and who knows what her assistant Peg would have done to her. No shame in being an idiot these days, 1 out of every three billionaires are.
Well, assuming she's correct (I suppose she may not be, but I don't think the script gives us any reason to think she's not), she does know things. Emphasis on "things" - she knows the designer of Andi's shoes by just looking at them, and she recognized the glass piano as Liberace's. I would call that a form of intelligence.
In slight defense of Birdy, when it comes to going against Miles she is the first one of the group to do so twice. She is the first to break something along with Helen and she is the first to raise her hand to telling the truth after the onion gets burned down. And she actually has somewhat of an "exit plan" when it comes down to her connection to Miles and Bangladesh. Her strength might be knowing when to pull out of a situation. Which is ironic given her online activity and dependence.
@@darryljack6612she's also knowledgeable about precious metals as she quickly identified the silver in one of the puzzles. It's listed on her TV tropes character section.
It's also a bit insulting to the audience to imply that intellectualism is a safer behavior, when she's a famous, wealthy model, and he lives in a dingy apartment with a roommate. The movie frequently acknowledges the benefits of nepotism, sociopathic behavior, and conducting life with little forethought. The intellectual inspector is able to wound the billionaire through a complex (and lucky) set of happenstance, in addition to his analytical mind, rather than relying completely on his own baseline "safe" behavior. The line is clever, but it is pointless, it's not the message of the movie, nor does it support the narrative. Spouting philosophy to Birdie is for the audience, as most of the movie, until that point seems to laud the vapid.
Thank you for this analysis. Focusing on the salient topics and dialogue in the film helps me to understand it in a deeper way. And that is very satisfying. Excellent.
the funniest line had to be when birdie thought sweat shops were where they made sweats. like that is goddamn funny coming from a family where we all have these “blonde” moments
Really good analysis. There really is a science to good storytelling and clever dialogue is one of the most prevalent pieces to that. Sometimes nothing hits you deeper than a line that had a ton of buildup behind it.
I'd love if you did as video about "The Whale". It features a lot of mental health issues: depression, grief, anger, obesity, etc. But I'm not sure if it's an honest and accurate portrayal of those things out just exploitative and using those issues are caricatures to make a dramatic movie but not actually fair or helpful for people understanding those issues. I kind of feel like Aronofsky likes to use mental health to create drama and seen deep, but I don't know if he actually does the work to accurately portray those issues. But maybe he does, I don't know enough about them to take judge, so it would be awesome for someone that does have expertise in those areas to go into what his movies, especially The Whale, get right and wrong.
Haven’t watched the video but my first thought was when Blanc told Birdie that speaking without thought and honesty aren’t the same thing Edit: Knew It
I’ve watched every video on this movie I’ve found. Nobody has pointed out that ‘my murder’ could also mean the murder I committed. Or is this just too obvious?
I was going to say "I think that isn't mentioned because no way would Miles imply to his guests that he was going to kill one of them," but it occurs to me that that is exactly what an idiot would subconsciously let slip.
I also really enjoy the meta-irony the plot of the movie itself makes. It's simple. It's not complicated. It is praised consistently, and I believe rightfully so. But some people still look at it as "genius," which is humorous, because that is literally the conclusion the movie was attempting to get people to NOT make. It's a very good movie, and quite clever. And it calls into question what "genius" and intelligence really mean. Superbly entertaining.
My personal opinion is that Blanc is lying about the difficulty of the puzzles. His character is introduced losing at Among Us where he talks about how his brain isn’t wired for something like that. He also mentions that he hates clue and crosswords. If Helen had brought the box intact I don’t know if Blanc would have actually been able to open the box.
Actually the puzzle box, while it's niche knowledge, wasn't difficult. It's actually just a bunch of disjointed trivia. The Fools Mate is my favorite. It's the answer but it's practically already solved you just need to do the check mate to complete it. There was little thinking involved you just needed to recognize the position rather than actually do a fool's mate (which just shows how disjointed these puzzles were as there really would be no other way to know fool's mate was the answer). Hollywood pretty much has us conditioned to think that solving puzzles like this is a symbol of elitism, a sign that the solver is above the rest in some regard, but these puzzles are meaningless in more ways than one. The most glaring being: Dude never even asks these guys if they solved the puzzle. He just assumed they did because his circle is willing to his play games without thought or realizing none of them had anything to do with a murder mystery.
@@noctisthedevious yes. Anyone who had ever played any decent chess would understand the position instantly, same with the Fibonacci sequence, and with everything else. None of it is a real puzzle in the sense of requiring critical thought.
Odd thing is, if Kleer does have the properties it's suggested to, it really is a miracle fuel. A compact, high-density hydrogen-based thermal fuel, zero greenhouse emissions, mostly stable at room temperature, ultimately less dangerous to handle than natural gas. Like a bad methane leak in that ending scene would have made the whole thing go Boom. Shouldn't skip the working the kinks out stage, and there might be other problems elsewhere in production (see: Grey Hydrogen and whatnot) but like. Those are the kinds of hassles that chemical engineers would love to worry about.
I'd love it if you did a full analysis of this film when you have the time! The Mona Lisa stuff especially intrigued me but I wasn't quite sure what to make of it- I've only seen it once tho. I fully had to pause the film when the like you're talking about came up. It so neatly sums up so many things about our modern, particularly online, world. And Birdie's response to it makes it even more fitting
Someone said that the film wasn't about how everyone was an idiot but that everyone WASNT a GENIUS and how quickly we worship self-proclaimed geniuses...
dude i swear her delivery of it sounded like she does know what benoit blanc is saying but choosing to ignore it, almost as if involuntarily, shes always performing, i think if u pay attention to everytime she screams about something its usually feels like an exaggeration of her true reaction
Great video as always. Just a heads up from a fellow editor, you have several flash frames of offline media in your export. Might want to check for whatever media isn't linked right or was deleted.
Yeah, they're all linked fine, it's some other glitch that I thought I'd fixed but I guess not😆 I edited the video in the exact same frame rate as the clips, so I don't know what happened this time
@@mylittlethoughttree Whatever, most people won't notice or care. My only advice would be to always watch your final export before you upload. Keep up the good work, and thanks for the insightful videos.
I loved the line "that's not pineapple right? Duke don't dance with pineapple." Because that is not how one of those Covid denying dude bros would act. His first reaction would have been asking about microchips and what the heck is it. His only issue being an allergy is a good way to start off and shows that isn't his true personality, everything is just a show for the fame and fans.
This was really nicely done. I'm doubly impressed you got so much out of this movie on first viewing. I was very disoriented by it, mostly because of the horror of everyone standing around staring at a murderer and not able to do anything about it. I wanted to see Helen, Benoit, anyone, just stab him to death. But instead of going looking for videos expressing similar disorientation or disappointment, I went looking to see what people liked about it. And people like you have opened this film up like a flower. Or a puzzle box. Or perhaps a glass onion. I do remember noting that line "So you think I'm dangerous?" As the key to all these people. They're not out to make the world better, they just want to pee on it so it smells like them. Just as Miles wanted to do with the Mona Lisa. And of course, that metaphor about pee comes from a comment Frank Miller made about his first sad foray into Hollywood, when he wrote twelve drafts of Robocop 2, ending up with, well, the movie we got. He said "You aren't writing a story. You're writing a fire hydrant, and there's already a line of dogs waiting to pee on it." I think this film, as much as it's about the nature of power in the modern world, is also making sly commentary on the Hollywood system and the way it's always been. Everyone wants to influence the movie, to put their mark on it. Not because it'll make the movie better, but because it makes them feel like they have power. Nothing hurts a movie more than people in power thinking their influence on the movie is more important than the movie itself.
IMHO his initial "discomfort" on the island was fake. After all, we later learn, he was quite aware of the dynamics of the situation he was getting into, from the twin sister.
BB is the mega hero here in more ways than one. He's the only non-douche there and he is constantly calling out all the douchie and stupid behavior. This film is as much a morality tale about the dangers of having more money than brains as it is a murder mystery.
While Glass Onion mostly presents familiar ideas, I find it is well told and has a solid core: Any system that enables thoughtless, selfish assholes to rise to power and appear like truth-tellers and "disruptors" needs to go down, and it can only be dismantled by means that aren't beholden to the system. Sometimes, unfortunately, that even requires collateral damage. Moreover, this is not always enough to change the hearts of the selfish; they may only redirect their support. There's a lot of little details to consider beyond the obvious, like how while it's Helen who does the deed, you can blame Klear running Miles's estate for destroying the Mona Lisa; and how the shithead squad turns on Miles for only selfish reasons; and how Blanc leaves it to Helen, the only one left who can speak for Andi, to choose her method of justice; and how Miles values only the most popular things, but also recklessly endangers them all the time.
Oh damn, is it? Not sure how that happened, I don't remember doing anything different with the audio here than usual. That's what I get for not checking it all with headphones
Wan-Bissaka is excellent at defending 1v1 or chasing a winger, but Arsenal exposed him. He can’t play under pressure, plus De Gea was partially to blame for some of his struggles because neither of them are great at playing out from the back and United should replace both of them. Wan-Bissaka was completely unaware of Nkethia coming in from behind on one of the goals, showing zero awareness of what’s happening around him.
Very much agree. Wan-Bissaka was extraordinarily good for Crystal Palace because his role was straightforward. He could just focus on the things he was good at. At United, he needs to play out the back, think more about progression, passing, pressing, and I think it sometimes leaves him confused.
If I may; I love this line too but I feel like it misses something that people actually confuse telling real truth for. If I had the opportunity I would personally rewrite the line to say “it’s a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without a filter for speaking the truth.” Thoughts?
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On an unrelated note: as the child of a teacher who was struggling massively during the height of COVID in the UK, I found it monumentally satisfying to see a the main character, an elementary school teacher being forced to work during the pandemic, be the one to completely eviscerate a stuck-up, incompetent billionaire who recklessly tries to dodge the pandemic by fucking off to an island. Possibly my favourite ending from a 2022 film.
Hell YES!!
didn't you love when she asked people to raise their hand in true teacher fashion?
Eviscerate is such a great word
My favorite part of the movie is at the end when Helen starts smashing everything, which inspires the rich characters to start smashing things for fun as well as a petty way to get back at Bron, but after they're all satisfied Helen just keeps going, because she's not looking for petty revenge, she's looking to actually ruin Bron and destroy what he has. It shows the difference between bourgeois self motivating and satisfying participation in social movements and legitimate proletarian direct action against the system itself.
Lady Jenevia also pointed out that Miles' speech about disruption & Helen's rampage mirror each other. The whole time, she is picking at the threads of their society until she finally breaks the one thing no one wanted her to.
It's some of the most fantastic, simple writing we've gotten all year.
While I don’t agree with the whole ideology of “taking down the system”, I do enjoy the jab at the narcissistic celebrities who only join movements as a photo op.
“Disruption”
Except she then literally destroys the most famous painting in existence, a huge part of French and Italian cultural heritage, and which didn’t belong to not-Musk, all in an effort to discredit him… So yeah, let’s destroy great and completely unrelated masterpieces to ruin a single guy, I’m sure it’s totally worth it
@@jordinagel1184 She’s just being a disruptor.
"It's so dumb it's brilliant!"
"No! It's just dumb!"
That's MY favorite line!
LEGIT I'm not kidding I JUST SAW THE MOVIE 10 MINUTES AGO, and that was the funniest line and funniest delivery, I just love Daniel Craig.
And that line sums up movie as a whole.
@@asifdama4827 correction: it sums up Miles.
@@asifdama4827 Movie where characters are intentionally dumb =/= movie itself is dumb
One of my favourite forshadowings in the movie is that when Blanc is in the bath he says that his mind is a fueled up race car and he's got nowhere to drive it, that he needs a great case and then when they're talking about Miles' car, Miles says it's on the roof because there's nowhere to drive it on the island.
Woah I missed that one, good catch.
🤯 missed that.
something interesting is that we hardly get to know the real andi, and in some ways it seems like even she was afraid to destroy the system that gave her the power she had. she was too tangled up in the system to destroy it. she probably could've taken down miles, she could've taken down the people who lied to protect him, and she likely could've survived. but she sent them all a picture and gave them a last chance to "make things right". andi invited miles into her house that day and sat down with him. it's obviously not her fault that he killed her, but it may have been aviodable. throughout the film, they keep saying how andi "isn't acting like herself" whenever she's agressive and confrontational and only when she walks away from the fight with duke does he say "there's the andi I know". andi was a rich, busniess-savy woman who rightfully earned her success... but even she wasn't truly "disrupting" anything. it took helen who was completely removed from this world of money and influence to truly be able to end miles bron. andi made the mistake of trusting miles when she first met him, telling her friends to "give him a chance", and trusting miles was also the last mistake she ever made.
i liked this film on my rewatch so much better and I might even rewatch again.
This is an awesome piece of analysis! Another side of Andi I've read some people mention that works in line with your analysis is when Helen said that her sister became the "rich bitch" character which used to be the caricature-like role they used to play as kids that was essentially mocking the way the rich act. It seems that at some point Andi, upon becoming the rich bitch had seemly also fit the mold of the rich type that has continued to uphold the structure of the system and wasn't actually a true disrupter, like you mention. Of course, Andi was wise enough to walk away from the Klear deal that Miles wanted to sell their whole company for, which was smart of her, but in the end, the disruption she could have caused by revealing the truth of the envelope was undercut by the fact that she decided to play within bounds and within the confine of a structure in order to let her fellow disruptor "make things right".
@@deborroni so true i forgot about that!!! this is why i like this movie, there’s soooo much that can be picked apart and analyzed in it
I thought the Mum solving the box was an example of untapped hidden talent, like Helen. Helen is trapped by whatever into her limited life, alcohol only really unleashes our inner selves and removes the social conditioning. Which should concern some people....
She's actually incredibly smart and wise, she just holds herself back.
The Mum solving the puzzles implies that she's really smart but was held back by the times she grew up in.
My favorite line from the movie is: “INBREATHIATE…not a word” followed by a flashback of Blanc agreeably nodding in the background to Miles when he said it
Is that how you took it? I thought he was doing a little confused head tilt and then deciding to move on.
I thought it was interesting he insulted the simplicity of the puzzles but we later found out the box he "received" was already destroyed. There's no way he could have known how difficult the puzzles were. Was the insult intended to build himself up or tear the host down?
I don't think Bron had any idea what the puzzles were, and the gang solved them as a group. To be honest, I think they would have been more impressed if Benoit just told them he smashed his way through the box. "Oh, why didn't we think of that?"
To tear the host down, definitely. Or at a minimum, to try and throw him off his stride, shake things up and see how he'd react.
You're assuming he didn't go through the broken box. He probably rebuilt it in 20 minutes.
Id say that Benoit lied about the box because
1. Letting Bron know he received a broken box could hurt his investigation and spoil the ruse.
2. The remaining pieces of the box were likely somewhat recognizable and some were definitely childish looking.
3. Most puzzles are child’s play to Benoit Blanc, so it wouldn’t be unexpected for him to make the comment.
4. It’s a good way to test how Bron reacts, and legitimately helps point towards the conclusion of the movie.
@@TheRockhead9 Agreed. The broken box would certainly contain pieces of what Benoit could easily determine were puzzles. Regardless of how hard they actually were, it would be believable to Bron that these puzzles would be child's play to the world's greatest detective. However, I would push back on your third point. I think Benoit calling them "child's play" is also supposed to be ironic. Based on the mother's ability to easily solve the puzzles so easily, it's implied that they aren't even hard, and based on what we see of Benoit in his introduction, and elsewhere in the movie, we know he's actually quite bad at "stupid" things. So he actually may *not* have found them "child's play," and Helen breaking the box shows how she's able to solve puzzles that would otherwise escape Benoit because she doesn't buy into the pretense of Bron's genius.
Gotta say I’m partial to “It’s so… dumb.” “So dumb it’s genius!” “NO, it’s just dumb!”
1:20 being stupid and being Intelligent are not mutually exclusive. People can show high cognetiv capability and high levels of stupidity at the same time. Sometimes even in the same action.
Intelligence vs wisdom.
Some of the stupidest people I've known are very intelligent.
In cases like me I have a lot of knowledge, but then there’s also times where I try to go through a door without opening it. Smart but stupid, sheer accident and bad luck, but sometimes it’s hard to tell when it’s outside force or just self inflicted
Sometimes I see a door and I assume its locked without ever trying the handle. I think our own expectations and assumptions can really make us look dumber than we are. Although you could argue that yes, I am a dumbass for never trying the handle and y’know what fine maybe I am stupid *sob*
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The fact it keeps repeating the facts, the disruption of our protagonist while the rest fall in line with what's required of them, all links back to one small motif in the movie. The Fugue. It's used in the score, it's in the puzzle box, and every time it shows up, it's layered differently. The way it's mixed together changes each time, just like how the disruption goes from hammer, to words, to eventually smashing and burning.
It's a beautiful representation of the concept of the full movie. Each layer of the movie is beautiful, but it's so easy to see right through to its core, but people get distracted by the reflections of each layer
A glass onion, if you will
The pre-credits box sequence being a microcosm of the entire story is such genius.
the letter in the beginning literally said that they would be coming to the island to solve miles' murder... and they did...
miles' murder of andi
My favorite line, sure it’s mostly a throwaway, but “that’s hard kombucha! That’s JARED LETO’s hard kombucha!” Made me laugh so dang hard on my first viewing
That's 9% alcohol!
I also got a giggle out of “Shitballs” regarding the Jeremy Renner hot sauce 😂
Knowing Blanc is gay makes the interaction even funnier, how Birdie assumes he's flirting and Blanc doesn't know how to respond.
Mildly off topic but did anyone else notice the last shot of Helen on the beach with Blanc and how she's mirroring the Mona Lisa bc hot damn
My favourite line was, "That first one is a Fibonacci sequence."
Jackie Hoffman is such a scene stealer. Terrific.
"MA!"
“I’ve realized: Miles Bron is an idiot!” is one of the most cathartic things i have ever heard said in a movie
I watched this movie at TIFF. When Blanc said that line about speaking without thought, my audience clapped and cheered. I'm used to people applauding celebrity cameos and jokes and epic fight scenes or whatever, but never a well-written line.
"Now you'll be remembered in the same line as 'the Mona Lisa'" or something like that. Loved it.
My first impression after seeing 40 minutes of this film was “Modern Day ‘And Then There Were None’”? But it really turns the mystery on its head. It wasn’t intricate or complicated, it was in plain sight.
I can see a lot of "And Then There Were None" in the basic setting but the plot is different.
1/ The being trapped on an island where the inability to leave is a plot point.
2/ The first death happening off-screen before the story starts.
3/ The first death we witness is a childish man choking to death on a drink.
4/ Everyone is guilty of a crime that they got away with.
5/ The childish device of a nursery rhyme and a mystery game.
The movies are homages to classic mysteries.
Love the fact he covers himself when she says the golden titties line.
I loved when Blanc at first said Miles isn't an idiot; he wouldn't kill Andi following such a large court case. Then in the Glass Onion, he says he's realized that Miles is a big idiot!
Before playing the video I'm gonna bet that it's "It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth".
YES!
@@maaderllin Congratulations, you're a winner!
@@justaghostinthesea Is there a price? Like, do we win an iPad? :P
"Spoilers: it didn't turn out as subtle as I hoped"
...so the point was in plain sight from the very beginning?
"You would lie for a lie but you would never lie for the truth"
If not the best line, the most memorable line, for me, has gotta be "That's... Jared Leto's Hard Kombucha." Everytime I see or think of kombucha, probably for the rest of my life, I'll hear Daniel Craig's voice as Benoit Blanc saying "That's Jared Leto's Hard Kombucha."
Beyond that... the lines that keep coming to my mind are "Inbreathiate... is not a word." and "Miles Bron is an idiot!"
I like how Miles literally tells them at the start “you’re here to solve my murder” and then “Andi” says “you took my life”
I just watched this movie last night. The ending in which the "disruptors" side with "Andy" (Helen) against their patron rings a bit hollow to me. They haven't had any change of heart and are just following her because they perceive her as the bigger "disruptor." And moreover, if they were called to swear to what they profess at the end (I saw the napkin; I saw him with the gun, etc) their words are not worth anything. They lied under oath already.
That said I still enjoyed the movie. This morning I now notice the double-meaning behind "my murder" in the invitations at the start.
No, they haven't had a change of heart. They're followers who think they're disruptors, they just found someone new to follow.
Claire and Lionel also both wanted a way out of Miles' hold on them because his dumbass nature was about to sink them. They were primed to turn on Miles, not to change who they are or how they act.
I personally found the ending quite poignant. No, they have not had a change of heart and that is part of the point. As Helen pointed out earlier in the movie, they all supported Miles and lied for him in the trial because that was the most beneficial thing to do for their own success at thst moment. I don't really think they viewed themselves as "disruptors", that's just some BS Miles sprouts. They obviously don't really support Helen's actions at the end of the movie. They join in for a little while to break some glass, but when she still keeps going they try to stop her. The only reason they "side" with her at the very end, is because at that point its more beneficial for them to throw Miles under the bus. He is ruined and their just wanting to save their own skin. They are still bad people. I thought it was very interesting social commentary.
I think that's the point; it's not a heroic change of character, they only agree to side against Miles once it becomes clear that his golden titty is all dried up AND that there's no longer any real proof of their own perjury. The napkin would be the only evidence of their own perjury, and with it gone, they're very unlikely to face any consequences for it.
You missed the point. The irony is the joke. That's the whole point
They're doing what they always did, looking out for themselves. Miles lost his power and his going to be going down in the public eye at the very least and maybe even financially, and if they don't turn on him now they'll go down with him. It's all about survival.
i think people are skipping over claires role a little too much- she is a politian who endroes miles product to make money (which is basically everyone in politics) but the movie itself doesnt really point out that when his product (ultimately) fails how it is gonna affect her and her political campaign- the only time she seems to be called out is when one of the charcaters mention that shes a politician going to a private island in the midt of a pandemic- i wouldve loved to see more commentary on her tbh
I would just add, duke and birdie aren't the same in their "truth telling". Birdie doesn't want to think about what she says, duke thinks about what people want to hear him say. He doesn't actually believe his whole alpha bullshit it's just a means to an end for him as evidenced by his "consensual cuckoldry" ( as Leblanc puts it). Even his speech about the boobification of the country, disrupting the natural order but selling boner pills, nature says if you are unable to reproduce unassisted then you are unfit to do so. I'd also say something about him calling himself a disruptor but defending gender status quo but again I don't think he believes it.
"But Birdy is intelligent in certain ways." Now who's insulting her? She's not intelligent in any way, she thought a sweatshop made sweatsuits and her grand plan in dealing with it was to take Bron's 30 million deal and walk away.... and who knows what her assistant Peg would have done to her.
No shame in being an idiot these days, 1 out of every three billionaires are.
Well, assuming she's correct (I suppose she may not be, but I don't think the script gives us any reason to think she's not), she does know things. Emphasis on "things" - she knows the designer of Andi's shoes by just looking at them, and she recognized the glass piano as Liberace's. I would call that a form of intelligence.
In slight defense of Birdy, when it comes to going against Miles she is the first one of the group to do so twice. She is the first to break something along with Helen and she is the first to raise her hand to telling the truth after the onion gets burned down. And she actually has somewhat of an "exit plan" when it comes down to her connection to Miles and Bangladesh. Her strength might be knowing when to pull out of a situation. Which is ironic given her online activity and dependence.
@@darryljack6612she's also knowledgeable about precious metals as she quickly identified the silver in one of the puzzles. It's listed on her TV tropes character section.
It's also a bit insulting to the audience to imply that intellectualism is a safer behavior, when she's a famous, wealthy model, and he lives in a dingy apartment with a roommate. The movie frequently acknowledges the benefits of nepotism, sociopathic behavior, and conducting life with little forethought. The intellectual inspector is able to wound the billionaire through a complex (and lucky) set of happenstance, in addition to his analytical mind, rather than relying completely on his own baseline "safe" behavior. The line is clever, but it is pointless, it's not the message of the movie, nor does it support the narrative. Spouting philosophy to Birdie is for the audience, as most of the movie, until that point seems to laud the vapid.
And the other two billionaires aren't geniuses either.
i hope ur rabbit has a good time eating that carrot. I would like to hear their thoughts in the next video.
One of my personal favorites is Birdie’s “This can’t Shazam, it’s a lamp.” line
My favorite line: "No, he's just dumb!"
Thank you for this analysis. Focusing on the salient topics and dialogue in the film helps me to understand it in a deeper way. And that is very satisfying. Excellent.
the funniest line had to be when birdie thought sweat shops were where they made sweats. like that is goddamn funny coming from a family where we all have these “blonde” moments
I also think Birdie saying “are you calling me dangerous?” Is her trying to play into Bron’s murder mystery game,
A 19 min video for the best line is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen
My favourite part of the movie is at the end when Blanc reviews it.
I love this line as well. Thank you for talking about it!
Really good analysis. There really is a science to good storytelling and clever dialogue is one of the most prevalent pieces to that. Sometimes nothing hits you deeper than a line that had a ton of buildup behind it.
my left ear really enjoyed that intro
Yeah, I don't know how that happened, so much went wrong with the editing of this video 😅
Not only did I love this video, but the sponsorship is someone I'd use every day
“So what is this, some kind of… Glass Onion?” - Gay Detective
I enjoyed this movie very much, I’m gonna watch it for a third time after this video. I enjoy your videos very much too btw
idk, I miles bundling up or like closing his shaw thing was the response. He felt vulnerable and had to create a literal safety blanket around him.
especially after the tit comment he felt body shammed I know it. had to cover the niples
About 3 milliseconds in. Love that my favorite line is the second spoken. Okay, on with the most excellent video
This film was filled with catharsis! God I love it!
I'd love if you did as video about "The Whale". It features a lot of mental health issues: depression, grief, anger, obesity, etc. But I'm not sure if it's an honest and accurate portrayal of those things out just exploitative and using those issues are caricatures to make a dramatic movie but not actually fair or helpful for people understanding those issues. I kind of feel like Aronofsky likes to use mental health to create drama and seen deep, but I don't know if he actually does the work to accurately portray those issues. But maybe he does, I don't know enough about them to take judge, so it would be awesome for someone that does have expertise in those areas to go into what his movies, especially The Whale, get right and wrong.
Haven’t watched the video but my first thought was when Blanc told Birdie that speaking without thought and honesty aren’t the same thing
Edit: Knew It
I’ve watched every video on this movie I’ve found. Nobody has pointed out that ‘my murder’ could also mean the murder I committed. Or is this just too obvious?
I was going to say "I think that isn't mentioned because no way would Miles imply to his guests that he was going to kill one of them," but it occurs to me that that is exactly what an idiot would subconsciously let slip.
That piece of dialogue is absolutely my favourite moment in all of glass onion
That was a fantastic line I took note of it right when he said it
I also really enjoy the meta-irony the plot of the movie itself makes. It's simple. It's not complicated. It is praised consistently, and I believe rightfully so. But some people still look at it as "genius," which is humorous, because that is literally the conclusion the movie was attempting to get people to NOT make. It's a very good movie, and quite clever. And it calls into question what "genius" and intelligence really mean. Superbly entertaining.
Birdie is not intelligent. She's educated.
Love what you're doing with the intro
My personal opinion is that Blanc is lying about the difficulty of the puzzles. His character is introduced losing at Among Us where he talks about how his brain isn’t wired for something like that. He also mentions that he hates clue and crosswords. If Helen had brought the box intact I don’t know if Blanc would have actually been able to open the box.
Actually the puzzle box, while it's niche knowledge, wasn't difficult. It's actually just a bunch of disjointed trivia. The Fools Mate is my favorite. It's the answer but it's practically already solved you just need to do the check mate to complete it. There was little thinking involved you just needed to recognize the position rather than actually do a fool's mate (which just shows how disjointed these puzzles were as there really would be no other way to know fool's mate was the answer).
Hollywood pretty much has us conditioned to think that solving puzzles like this is a symbol of elitism, a sign that the solver is above the rest in some regard, but these puzzles are meaningless in more ways than one.
The most glaring being: Dude never even asks these guys if they solved the puzzle. He just assumed they did because his circle is willing to his play games without thought or realizing none of them had anything to do with a murder mystery.
@@noctisthedevious yes. Anyone who had ever played any decent chess would understand the position instantly, same with the Fibonacci sequence, and with everything else. None of it is a real puzzle in the sense of requiring critical thought.
Odd thing is, if Kleer does have the properties it's suggested to, it really is a miracle fuel. A compact, high-density hydrogen-based thermal fuel, zero greenhouse emissions, mostly stable at room temperature, ultimately less dangerous to handle than natural gas. Like a bad methane leak in that ending scene would have made the whole thing go Boom.
Shouldn't skip the working the kinks out stage, and there might be other problems elsewhere in production (see: Grey Hydrogen and whatnot) but like. Those are the kinds of hassles that chemical engineers would love to worry about.
I'd love it if you did a full analysis of this film when you have the time! The Mona Lisa stuff especially intrigued me but I wasn't quite sure what to make of it- I've only seen it once tho.
I fully had to pause the film when the like you're talking about came up. It so neatly sums up so many things about our modern, particularly online, world. And Birdie's response to it makes it even more fitting
Someone said that the film wasn't about how everyone was an idiot but that everyone WASNT a GENIUS and how quickly we worship self-proclaimed geniuses...
The line was profound and her response was hilarious and endearing at the same time.
dude i swear her delivery of it sounded like she does know what benoit blanc is saying but choosing to ignore it, almost as if involuntarily, shes always performing, i think if u pay attention to everytime she screams about something its usually feels like an exaggeration of her true reaction
My favourite part was when Critical Drinker called it a Masterpiece of Stupidity.
Guess he was putting emphasis on "Drinker"
this was my favorite line as well
"Miles Bron is an idiot" is my fave line 😂
Great video as always. Just a heads up from a fellow editor, you have several flash frames of offline media in your export. Might want to check for whatever media isn't linked right or was deleted.
Yeah, they're all linked fine, it's some other glitch that I thought I'd fixed but I guess not😆 I edited the video in the exact same frame rate as the clips, so I don't know what happened this time
@@mylittlethoughttree Whatever, most people won't notice or care. My only advice would be to always watch your final export before you upload. Keep up the good work, and thanks for the insightful videos.
i didn't think of it like that, thanks!
Your movie audio only goes to my left ear.
incremental and architectural innovations are better than disruptive or radical ones.
I loved the line "that's not pineapple right? Duke don't dance with pineapple." Because that is not how one of those Covid denying dude bros would act. His first reaction would have been asking about microchips and what the heck is it. His only issue being an allergy is a good way to start off and shows that isn't his true personality, everything is just a show for the fame and fans.
My favorite line was: "Bacardi." *hyeurgh*
There's nothing deep about it. Kathryn Hahn is just hilarious.
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This was really nicely done. I'm doubly impressed you got so much out of this movie on first viewing. I was very disoriented by it, mostly because of the horror of everyone standing around staring at a murderer and not able to do anything about it. I wanted to see Helen, Benoit, anyone, just stab him to death.
But instead of going looking for videos expressing similar disorientation or disappointment, I went looking to see what people liked about it. And people like you have opened this film up like a flower. Or a puzzle box. Or perhaps a glass onion. I do remember noting that line "So you think I'm dangerous?" As the key to all these people. They're not out to make the world better, they just want to pee on it so it smells like them. Just as Miles wanted to do with the Mona Lisa.
And of course, that metaphor about pee comes from a comment Frank Miller made about his first sad foray into Hollywood, when he wrote twelve drafts of Robocop 2, ending up with, well, the movie we got. He said "You aren't writing a story. You're writing a fire hydrant, and there's already a line of dogs waiting to pee on it." I think this film, as much as it's about the nature of power in the modern world, is also making sly commentary on the Hollywood system and the way it's always been. Everyone wants to influence the movie, to put their mark on it. Not because it'll make the movie better, but because it makes them feel like they have power. Nothing hurts a movie more than people in power thinking their influence on the movie is more important than the movie itself.
I knew it's be that line!
This really resonates and is legit most of society so sad thanks for helping me appreciate this movie cause I was caught up witb the easy mystery
the headphone sound seem strange; right headphone is nearly silent during audio cuts to the movie
I honestly don't know how that happened, never has before but I guess it's my fault for not thinking to test with headphones 😅
If you expect the clips to have audio, well, they don’t.
15:56 ahhh the joys of premier pro and other likewise editing software
It was an easy guess as to what's the best line in the movie
IMHO his initial "discomfort" on the island was fake. After all, we later learn, he was quite aware of the dynamics of the situation he was getting into, from the twin sister.
Oh absolutely, I was just trying to avoid spoilers, same as me calling Helen Andi
BB is the mega hero here in more ways than one. He's the only non-douche there and he is constantly calling out all the douchie and stupid behavior.
This film is as much a morality tale about the dangers of having more money than brains as it is a murder mystery.
By overlooking Helen here, I think you've got one foot in the trap the film tries to point out
@@somebodycooliguess1597 I wasn't trying to give an outline here and cover her importance which I thought was obvious.
Freddy!🥕
While Glass Onion mostly presents familiar ideas, I find it is well told and has a solid core: Any system that enables thoughtless, selfish assholes to rise to power and appear like truth-tellers and "disruptors" needs to go down, and it can only be dismantled by means that aren't beholden to the system. Sometimes, unfortunately, that even requires collateral damage. Moreover, this is not always enough to change the hearts of the selfish; they may only redirect their support.
There's a lot of little details to consider beyond the obvious, like how while it's Helen who does the deed, you can blame Klear running Miles's estate for destroying the Mona Lisa; and how the shithead squad turns on Miles for only selfish reasons; and how Blanc leaves it to Helen, the only one left who can speak for Andi, to choose her method of justice; and how Miles values only the most popular things, but also recklessly endangers them all the time.
Disruptors was used as a synonym for destructors I think in this film.
Why is the audio from the movie mixed all the way to the left ear? Its kind of jarring.
Oh damn, is it? Not sure how that happened, I don't remember doing anything different with the audio here than usual. That's what I get for not checking it all with headphones
As an editor I about fell out of my seat when I saw the singular frame of "Media Offline"
edit: IT HAPPENS MULTIPLE TIMES
Looking at all of these re-cap videos,I think the real disruptor of the movie is Blanc.
Wan-Bissaka is excellent at defending 1v1 or chasing a winger, but Arsenal exposed him. He can’t play under pressure, plus De Gea was partially to blame for some of his struggles because neither of them are great at playing out from the back and United should replace both of them. Wan-Bissaka was completely unaware of Nkethia coming in from behind on one of the goals, showing zero awareness of what’s happening around him.
Very much agree. Wan-Bissaka was extraordinarily good for Crystal Palace because his role was straightforward. He could just focus on the things he was good at. At United, he needs to play out the back, think more about progression, passing, pressing, and I think it sometimes leaves him confused.
i like how you think
Love this movie
The line was and is Fucking perfect
If I may; I love this line too but I feel like it misses something that people actually confuse telling real truth for. If I had the opportunity I would personally rewrite the line to say “it’s a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without a filter for speaking the truth.” Thoughts?
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I like it. Thank you.
did anyone else see the heinz beans in the glass or was that edited in i'm confused
You can't blame the group too much. You had Lionel (played by Leslie Odom Jr.) to speak less and smile more.
This whole video is wrong the best line is “Halle BERRY that has a kick”
Love that channel intro
guessed it