The important thing about Miles' Mona Lisa is that the Louvre conned him. It's on canvas, but the real one is painted on board.

Also the fact that the “disrupters” kept the status quo in protecting Miles because they really didn’t want things/their lives to change. It was Helen, the “hick” teacher from Alabama that was the real disruptor, not privileged Hollywood influencers and models or scientists signing off on whatever their boss tells them to.

I hadn’t thought of it that way that’s interesting

Yeah, Before the puzzle box part we hear Lionel say that "he is the one turning Miles's ideas into reality", then we cut to Helen (who at that point we thought was Andi) and she looks like the practical minded one. No need to do any sort of circus, if I want what is at the core of this, I will just get there and that is that. She felt like the one intelligent person at the end of that sequence.

YES finally someone said it!!! Um, spoilers, but, It's like Miles himself was saying, you start by breaking something small that no one will mind and people were tired of anyways (the puzzle box), and then you end up breaking the one thing no one wants you to break (the Glass Onion itself), it's been eating away at my mind for the past week this movie is so bad for my health

@Shaded Way more spoilers Miles disrupter speech perfectly mirrored what Helen did at the end. You start off breaking something small that everyone wants broken. She started with the little glass statues and everyone was cheering her on and even joined in. They still weren't disrupters, they were copying her. Then when she decided to break the big thing, the Mona Lisa, that no one wanted broken everyone started yelling at her to stop. She even flashed the same double middle fingers with arms crossed gesture at Miles that he did at the end of his speech before running over there. Then her breaking the big thing broke the system. It broke his hold over the others and his empire.

It also implied with this, Miles thinking all his peers would try to "solved" the box normally cause he never reinforced it, or makes the invitation getting destroyed if open by any other means. Which mean, he think all his peers wouldn't feel "worthy" enough if they can't solved the box "normally". He think they would feel embarassed taking the invitation by force, even though from their reaction when they got all the box, they would do anything to go with him (cause they think he is genius). Miles don't even asked when they came to his island whether they actually "solved" the box and just assumed they all doing that, and don't know if "Andi" actually got the invitation by breaking the box.

THIS!! very surprised this wasn't discussed in the video

Also, Helen is the only one who didn’t play his game, the true disrupter

@@sunsetskye483 yeah! The other ones follow rules just to get approval of who they respect. Helen breaks the rules when she sees them as the glass onions they are.

I just love it. It's so immaculate.

yknow this is one of those times I wish I was good at chess. making this link in the video would have been such a slam-dunk Pinning this! Really great observation!

I swear I always make observations like these and then they immediately fly out my head as the rest of the movie goes on before I can make something of them. I don’t even know all that much about chess but when they called it an endgame I was like “that can’t be, all the special pieces are in the back, and barely any of the pawns have been moved. This game is just beginning.” But before I could appreciate that fact, whoosh, right out of my brain. The same thing happened with Bron’s malapropisms. “Infraction point? That’s not right. Oh well moving on” 😂

yeah that was something I noticed on my second watchthrough, I almost wanted to point it out for my friends who were watching it for the first time with me but I realized it might hint towards some spoiler stuff when I processed what it meant lol

@@Excelsior1937 This

ahh no wonder I couldn’t see a mate-in-one endgame in that 😂 I thought it was just my lackluster chess skills

The lights go out too which is a common sabotage in the game. And miles tries to bluff his way out of being accused this movie really is just a lifelike version of Among Us😮

@@juststerk fucking hell i cannot freaking believe that among us was actually incorporated into the movie properly and as a genius foreshadowing device i just cannot fathom this

I would make the argument that Miles is the imposter

And of the two, Blanc is the impostor that gets caught!

There’s hidden meanings everywhere. Even in the references.

He didn't even make them. Which he only admits after Blanc calls them children's puzzles. He does the same with the murder mystery. He initially says he outdid himself with it, that it's next level. Then after Blanc solves it and degraded it says it was a small thing, he also admits that he hired someone else to write it.

"Class signifier recognition tests" is the perfect description, thanks.

Ah, THAT'S what was in the background of my mind about the puzzle box. Thank you for bringing it out of my subconscious.

Right? I got frustrated when one puzzle spelled out "O-U-R", because in the Dutch subtitles they even went as far as translating them to "O-N-S" (which is just our/us in Dutch). I thought there must've been significance to this, but then the box went on to be about a compass and I was confused. I kept on to that detail the entire movie but besides them coming together, it was just a useless piece of information..

He was also playing Blackbird on Paul McCartney's guitar, which he immediately dumped on the ground, showing that he likes having these cultural signifiers just to impress other people but doesn't actually care about them.

@@Dachusblot Here’s something even better: that wasn’t even Paul’s guitar. Paul McCartney is a lefty. 😂

To be fair his compound is actually just taking the idea from their bar, he probably just liked that the beatles had a song with that name.

And the song Glass Onion is mocking the crazy conspiracy theories and layers of extra meaning that fans read into their lyrics... its a self-referential song witht he message "it's less meaningful than you think it is..." and the title originally came from the british name for a monocle, and a monocle is part of the Knives Out logo

That happens in culture in general. People insult people by calling them a Nimrod, but Nimrod is a great hunter in the Bible. The change in definition was from a Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs mockingly calls Elmer Fudd a Nimrod and people not understanding the joke. People use the term American as apple pie as something American, but apple pies originated in Europe.

It was to give himself a cover story as well as gather them to see who knew he was there What reason would he be the one involved with Andi death if he invited her?

@@Dishinshoryuken I think they just mean he easily could’ve made it a scavenger hunt or an island themed escape room instead

@@sigh824 yeah, like they mention they do one every year but whiskey mentions last year they just hung out on the yacht. But this year he randomly decided to do a murder mystery RIGHT after actually killing someone

@@Dishinshoryuken I don’t think he was thinking of it as a cover story more of just it’s what he normally did. Like this takes place a couple of month after the court case if he didn’t invite her it would of made perfect sense anyways

So, maybe I'm missing it, but why send Andi a box? Especially if he thought she was dead? To cover his ass? How could he know she was dead, he's on the island? But why would you send an honest invitation to someone you publicly buttfucked. Maybe I have the timeline wrong, but the trial was a few months ago, the murder was two weeks ago and the boxes were sent the same week as we see on the island, yes? Let's say I have the timeline wrong, and the boxes are sent before the murder, why would the invitation card be the same as for his friend. Wouldn't it say something like, "But not you, LOL!" And one more thing just hit me, Claire is scared of being revealed to be on this island with Duke, but the world knows from the trial that they are old friends. It's a good movie, but the real glass onion are the plotholes we made along the way.

Started writing the next one already after seeing the response this one’s had!

Well, remember as well that Miles did not even make the puzzle boxes himself. He hired someone else to design and build them. Which is great, because I think what that ultimately means is that even Miles could not tell that the puzzles were neither A.) Particularly difficult or clever, nor B.) Linked together thematically.

Between the title of the video and the start I was sure that PoG was gonna say how there's this densely layered puzzle box where you have to peel back each puzzle in order to get the treasure inside and you can only do it with the proper knowledge and then cut to Helen smashing it and going straight to the center of the glass onion. Like, for all it was a test for only worthy people to open it, Miles clearly didn't even think about making the contents of the box actually safe by any mechanism, they were all acessible to those without reservations about destroying the social significance of it all. In the end the puzzle box was about making the recipient feel clever and intelligent, basically a circle jerk bc they would think Miles a genius, when he didn't even project that, like everything else on his empire.

Reminds me of the Chinese Room thought experiment. You slip a piece of paper with a question written in Chinese under the door for an answer. The person inside the room doesn't understand Chinese, but there are enough books in the room for them to approximate a response. But the person inside the room doesn't understand what's being said or what it means at any point in the process. As you could probably guess, this is how AI works.

I'd LOVE to hang out with Duke's mom. I'd watch the living hell out of a spinoff movie series where she, Helen, and Whiskey solved puzzles and crimes and respectfully, lovingly shit-talked Duke (RIP).

Nice read. It's a perfect character note. It also foreshadows that she isn't Andi since Andi was, to a large degree, one of the shitheads. The character note for Andi would have been that she solves the box all by herself with no help or difficulty, that it's too easy for her and she's bored by it.

Oh yea, agree. I liked Helen's "rich bitch" story, encapsulated how she sees what her sister and the other disrupters do/did as child's play.

She used the Alexander the Great method of solving problems.

Meaningful, and hilarious.

More so her only contribution was recognizing a metal as silver. Something we can definitely see as her affinity for jewelry and fashion (more status symbols) more than her having any sort of knowledge or interest in minerals or metal working.

Not only her, same goes for Batista's character. It's his mom that contributes to the puzzle solving, not him

Alexa, Shazam this song

Well, she recognized the silver, so class signifier lol

Peg is such an interesting character to me, she’s an outcast to the rest of the group despite knowing all of them for years. She has high regard for Andi, as we can see when Helen gives her hard kombucha for her to told as she does her monologue. But then, when Helen desperately pleads to the disrupters and peg, Peg doesn’t hold the same regard and doesn’t stick up for her. of course bc she’s employed by Birdie but it just goes to show that who you work for can rly change your actions

Yeah it's Blanc who calls them children's puzzles that you realize yeah those are the type of puzzles you find in a children's puzzle book.

@@silverkyre What's funny is that Blanc hasn't even seen the puzzles. The only box he sees is already completely smashed to pieces. He just said that as a dig at Miles.

The thing with DaVinci Code and National Treasure is that they presented true puzzles. As cinematic as they are , they actually needs deductions. But for this box , it’s literally just Trivia. Like the atomic number of Silver is not some deep knowledge, it’s high school basic chemistry and can be easily googled. Not you need to even start the Fool’s Mate , as that is already set with the 1 out of 2 moves necessary to a checkmate.

Around the time the movie came out on Netflix, GCHQ released their yearly puzzle. It's part recruiting tool, part staff challenge and part advertising. For context, GCHQ is the rough equiavelent of the US NSA: they're the codebreakers and signals intelligence specialists of the British state. Regardless of what you think of their methods they are, genuinely, an entire organisations of savants and geniuses who have an outsized impact on the world around us. The puzzles they release are very clever and very difficult. The difference is that they have a practical purpose: to isolate a certain strand of genius that GCHQ needs and encourage people to consider working for them. Those puzzles demonstrate a certain type of intellectual rather than social capital which is valuable to an actually impactful organisation. Miles' puzzles are fluff which a GCHQ codebreaker might not actually be able to solve if they don't play chess or have any interest in music. In the business world, I believe Google recruits using a similar system. If you have the right search terms in your history it will hit you up with an invitation to a series of increasingly difficult coding puzzles that end with an invitiation to a job interview.

@@OnboardG1 it’s probably important to mention that the Christmas puzzles are intended for children aged between 11 and 18, so they’re not amazingly tricky but they are significantly better put together than the puzzle box. The ones they put on Twitter can get really fiendish though

It actually only became famous *following* its high class theft.

Mona Lisa is the first Paris Hilton? Famous for nothing. 😂

I like the theory the mona lisa might be based on leos pupil. whi is called little devil lovingly, why she smiles so mischiefous. And wasnt he known by being stolen, or was that another?

@@evanjuleen Paris Hilton is actually a successful businesswoman, way smarter than "Miles".

@@marocat4749 The Mona Lisa did rise to prominence in it being stolen, yes. It was for a time hung in the bathroom of the French king.

Fool on the Hill is also the name of a Beatles song, like Glass Onion!

@@TSDTalks22 the song Glass Onion is about how people look for meaning in Beatles songs that are meaningless. That’s why the song has the line “looking through a glass Onion.” Critics are looking for meaning that isn’t there. Also, a bunch of the statues reference lyrics from the song, like the line about fool on the hill and the opening line “I told you bout strawberry fields.”

@@samfisher6606 and miles plays blackbird on a guitar he claims is Paul McCartney’s despite it being a right handed guitar and McCartney famously being left handed. There’s loads of Beatles references in this movie

@@TSDTalks22 the layers to this movie keep on unfurling. From the upside down art piece in the living room to the poster Mona Lisa.

Good eye!

Damn, nice. I finally saw this movie and it's so much fun to read these details

Good spot - another way the opening tells you the answer!

Yes! If you can't bring an idea into reality, than as Homer Simpson said in the Elon Musk episode, "sky pie is lie pie."

also that 'child=NFT' thing made me laugh quite a lot for no reason, i'm not a big laugher either that just got me hysterical

Not to mention his ideas sound super dodgy. Crypto for kids is such a ghoulish concept when you actually stop and think about it.

@@hambreger8351 I knew from that moment it was a classic oh that guy is an idiot lol

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Also congrats on the great last video’s success! Keep it up bro!

I'm sorry for being that guy, but it's actually an icosahedron. (Ironically I'm kinda doing the cultural capital thing here...) But that's a great point. The one-way mirrors make something like an inside out Glass Onion, where the simple core is the frame on the outside and the act of looking through the transparent layers is what creates the illusion of infinite complexity.

@@obelustilde9427 Thank you for the geometry correction! Haha, I knew I was shooting from the hip at that part. 😂

That (specially the "lack of critical awareness" bit) made me think of those people who say they (or their ideas) are better bc they aren't tainted by ideology, but it is in many ways a glass onion in of itself, since it is impossible to work without a frame of reference what they see as impartial is simply something that has become invisible to them, but to anyone looking from the outside the structure is clear to see.

@@testcase6997 I love how you felt the need to investigate such an insignificant use of idioms in online communication.

@@breadtunes Do you think I’m not calm? How am I “riled up and acting like my dog was shot” for criticizing someone’s banal point?

@@testcase6997 I LOVE how much you went out of your own way to be bothered by this. Meanwhile OP still enjoys this movie perfectly fine.

@@testcase6997 L you got ratio’ed 3 times

@@brianmallet2298 I didn’t go out of my way at all. I made a reply because his comment is annoying.

That was a really horrible decision. He would have gotten away with everything if he hadn't sent her an invitation, which she then used to get both her and Blanc onto the island. Given their history, him not inviting her would be perfectly explainable.

I doubt Miles even considered whether or not to send a box to Andi. He’s been having these trip for years so he probably mailed the invitation as a sort of automatic list of five people.

I’d say instead that it was a dumb decision on his part. Why would you send an invitation to someone you killed? Even if you look at it from the standpoint of “If I don’t send this invitation then later on it looks like I knew something about her death” that strain of logic falls apart. They were on the outs. Dead or Alive, why invite her?

He couldn’t get away with the murder if it was investigated that he unordered andie’s box after her murder he didn’t think he’d have to kill her cause he thought she would never find the napkin after the trial and they would have found her dead before the box got to her, he didn’t count on them hiding her death and he didn’t stay to see her die

To be fair, puzzle boxes take a minimum of months to make so he probably had her on the list before any of the trial/klear/company stuff went down and just forgot about it

And of course he gives the whole speech as to what's so great about the painting. Talking about her expression and eyes, and so on. It's the exact same things anyone who doesn't know a ton about art/art history but wants to SOUND intellectual and knowledgeable, says about the Mona Lisa. He sounds like he's paraphrasing a script. (I don't want to tell anyone that they can't or shouldn't be moved by any piece of artwork whether it be considered high or low art, but there's a difference between being passionate about something and being a snob who just wants to be seen as superior for liking the "correct" things)

The best thing about the Mona Lisa scene is that the painting Miles has is obviously canvas (by how it burns). The Mona Lisa is famously painted on wood which would not burn the way it was shown in the movie. A lot of the modern art paintings Miles had were hung upside down (the red blue Rothko is shown with the blue at the top when it's actually at the bottom). There are many ways you can see this But most people I see analysing this on tumblr think that it shows that Miles is only there for the capitalism of art. There is no actual love and attention to the things around him, he does not care for the history they have (like the history he had with andi) only that it makes them look cool. The Rothko is featured heavily and so is the painting of Miles pretending to be in Fight Club. That Film is often perceived by 'alpha men' as a somewhat Hand Book as it created thr Alpha Beta stereotype, and they have a lot of sex. It also introduces ' the only rule is that their are no rules'. Miles would probably agree with this ans the whims 'disrupting thing' the same way Elon musk completely didn't understand The Matrix. However The Fight Club is actually about classism and whole bunch of other things. I Would love for someone to go further into all the art. I think It's so cool that Miles was protecting a fake Mona Lisa and hung a Rothko upside down and the fight Club Reference. Rain Johnson is a Master mind in using The set to also Tell the story.

@@goldstarsforall I wouldn't say it was 'famously' painted on a wood panel, it's not something the average person would know about the painting. The way it burned in the film is just a visual simplification, for the sake of the viewer. Had it burned the way the real one would burn, it would just confuse the average viewer (who, in their mind, knows what a burning painting would look like) We've already suspended our disbelief seeing that Miles has the 'actual' Mona Lisa, we can suspend it a bit more

@@sighcology i think i like the idea that the mona lisa miles has is fake, with it being on canvas as the tell. we the average viewer don't know that the mona lisa was painted on wood, thats something only someone who is either an art connoisseur or someone who is obsessed with the mona lisa would know. miles is stated to be of the later option, but also someone who wants to be known as the former too. its a great way of showing just how shallow he is that he couldn't even spot the real mona lisa from a fake, when he believes and acts like someone who should.

Yes I don’t know that the mona lisa is painted on wood but it also add more layers to the story. I can guess the curators at the louvre are thinking a open invitation to borrow the mona lisa was a mistake especially to a loud and annoying billionaire. So rather than risk it, they give him a copy of the mona lisa and put he real one in storage. And should anything happen to the fakena lisa, the louvre can blackmail the billionaire into stay silent about it.

To be fair, Blanc doesn’t know what was inside the box except the remnants of destroyed games. You can’t take his “children’s games” comment to heart for what he says.

@@Phoenix_NH good point, is a missdirection to both Miles and the audience... also, later in the movie Blanc says he's very bad at _Clue_ because he can't follow dumb rules (the same reason why he lost almost inmediately while playing _Among Us)_ ... maybe I'm reading to much into a small joke but it could be further proof that those puzzles can't really test the intellect of someone

@@Phoenix_NH …But he’s right. It’s literally filled with children’s games. Magic Eye, a toy abacus, chess. All things kids play with.

Great read, thanks for sharing!

That all sounds like a basis for a great novel!

Who's the gay man?

@@StonedRaccoon6 Benoit Blanc himself. The guy who opens the door at his house is his partner

Are you single? Hey, wanna date and marry me???? You writing that book is one of the most charming and whimsical things I've ever seen. How fun. It's like Matilda but even better somehow.

Also, *Miles Bron* is an anagram for *"Mr B is Elon"* 😁

@@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460 Wait... huh... HAHAHAHA... Oh nice.

@@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460 hahahah

The guy at the party was Yo-Yo Ma, which I thought was pretty funny just for that. He random signifier of class, but someone that none of them recognise or aknowledge as such. And his revelation about the puzzle itself wasn't... Really a logical linking to "Lift the thing in the middle and you'll get more". It honestly felt like a fancy mental masturbation.

@@tashikat9040 yeah it brought me back to those old reading posters in school he was on.

I noticed that too! Lionel solves most of them, and the rest just copy his answers, and whenever he is stumped someone like Yo-yo Ma or Duke's Mom chimes in with the solution. I thought it was an interesting bit of foreshadowing that most of them aren't all that good at anything, just good at spinning a narrative that keeps them in the spotlight while people around them do the real work.

@@LaneMaxfield There's also the fact that, basically, the two people who actually have done work and built Miles' empire were the only two black people in his social group. He stole Alpha, and relied almost exclusively on Lionel to make the business work. That isn't accidental.

@@tashikat9040 Yeah... Doesn't remind me of anywhere I've actually worked. Nope. Not a bit.

Also the box contained a card inside a glass onion, and the envelope was in the Glass Onion room

I mean, in that sense it IS an endgame, though. The game sure is about to end.

Another great point!

...you realise glass artwork is very common because despite it's transparency, it can still be seen, right? glass artwork is often very beautiful, especially when you've got an appreciation for how difficult the craft is. the silly thing about them is that they're on these flimsy little plinths without anything stopping these incredibly fragile pieces from being knocked over - he has little appreciation for displaying them in ways that use light to make them really stand out, and seemingly don't care about the blood and sweat that goes into this sort of work (given how flippantly they're displayed)

@@merchantarthurn Well, I'm speaking from a moreso metaphorical standpoint than a literal one.

@@merchantarthurn While true, it also works metaphorically, because even the tables around the living room, and the piano, are made of glass The entire facade isn't just transparent, but fragile. The moment anyone realizes that, the realize that everything about the Glass Onion, everything about Miles Bron, is exceptionally easy to break. The material itself can't stand up to rudimentary force or scrutiny.

Them not being secured bettr even more

Yeah, wrote this in another comment but I was planning to do another video around Helen’s role here specifically and didn’t want to repeat part of that here - but in retrospect that was probably the wrong call :(

@PillarofGarbage Well I certainly wouldn't object to another video! I just watched the film again, and there's so much to take in. It's worth analyzing in many different ways. You mentioned Glass Onion isn't moralistic - that's true. But it has a solid moral center. Its takedowns of the absurdity and narcissism of the rich and powerful are relentless and cutting. I suspect that's the real reason Ben Shapiro found it intolerable - he knows the film is laughing at people like him.

Oookay

I mean, those men in MIB were qualified, if the job was normal. The Shitheads aren’t qualified to BE shit.

Yeah I love the foreshadowing that the “disruptors” aren’t as disruptive as they want to think they are. They’re the status quo.

Blanc is essentially upper-class, though.

I take your point, but from what we’re shown, ‘thinkers’ like that seem to be the exception, rather than the norm + I think there’s an angle from the (necessary?) simplicity of the few *real* puzzles (this and the missing tile bit) kinda supports the later point I’m making about the failure of ‘puzzle-boxes-as-justification-for-status’. But yeah, not every part of the opening sequence directly contributes to the reading of it I’m giving here, so I don’t think this is the *primary* purpose of it - the other ones you raise here probably take precedence - but I do think it’s an interesting layer to consider, a layer that works, and one which was (probably?) intentional.

@@PillarofGarbage I agree that it’s interesting to consider. I’m sure there’s a chance that some of what you said in the video was intentionally set. I still don’t agree that the boxes were put into the movie with high class knowledge in mind, but I do think the puzzle boxes do fail as a justification for status. Thinking on it more, I find that the real message of the box is the exact same as the movie. “It may appear very complex, but it really isn’t.” There is nothing brilliant about hiring a puzzle guy to make some puzzle boxes, and the puzzles wouldn’t even be that hard for your average Googler. Ultimately, you might as well just open it up with a hammer and save yourself the time. I don’t necessarily agree with that, as I like puzzles, but it is fitting for the movie.

Yeah, that was a fun misdirect. I remember saying "That rules out Andi" to my family when Blanc was explaining himself to Miles. Granted I was technically right, as Andi wasn't the one who gave him the box. He also never said he opened it.

About the missing tile, that does need some spatial intelligence to beat, but solving it didn't do anything, it was realizing what the N meant that did it. And the thing about that kind of puzzle is that you need to figure out what the solved picture looks like before you can start, which means that puzzle was skippable all along.

@@Katwind Not necessarily. They could have been moving the pieces around randomly for a while, getting excited whenever they matched up. I don’t think the scrambled N would look like an N at first. And knowing what an N means is only half the battle. You have to actually think to turn the box North. Knowing that an N means North isn’t even high class knowledge. That’s common knowledge. Picking up on it while solving a puzzle, however, requires intellect. I disagree that the puzzle box doesn’t require solving skills.

Planning to touch on this in the next video!

Honestly th only thing that should be nessesary is the desert set, and the fish knife. Who the hell has up to 7 sets, like 3 in soup main desert ok, but more? And thats knowing a bit from that. And over that it really gets , very complicated for sake of complicated?! An yeah wine glasses, ar fance, and in good red wine lt it breath better and make the aroma felt, and it feels fancy, (through you can drink anything out of wineglasses too and it be fancy) . Also wine and that can be ist there and regional and , be actually really good, but also like sold as super fancy, but also its fair to just fillit up with water, and its as legit, th white, the red is more having the flavour you houldnt , like good chocolate. I man relatives from a wine area, wine is not high class, its low class too. and ciollege parties, have wine too. Not strictly high class at all. Jut dont strech actually good wine ok.

I agreed, college kids act like they are 10x smarter than they really are, always annoyed me they tried to bring up 'sophisticated' topic in conversation just to show off what they read/watch a day ago with shallow understanding of it, acting like an expert on a subject they barely dip their finger into, in the end just wanting to subject an image into everyone else how smart they are, I am dumb but I am eager not just to learn but also to understand, that's why I learn things, but nowadays knowledge like a status symbol, chasing something shallow just to boost their image. Once a girl came up to me asking what movies I like and then goes full 20 minutes monologue on her favourite director and "movie analyze" she claim she discovered herself while I fully knew some youtuber already uploaded the same analysis, word by word. It's strange and sad at the same time

I think others can say more intelligent things to the rest of what you said, so I just want to focus on one specific thing: I LOVED the fact that Miles distracted everybody from his murder of Duke with "hey look at that dress!" Why do I love it? Because that's Magic 101 Misdirection babyyyy. That's the first thing you learn with magic tricks, how to distract attention from what you're really doing. The core: your eyes are automatically drawn to showy colors, big movements, and movements that are UP. You want a coin to disappear, you "put" it in your hand, hold your hand up high and tell everybody "I HAVE NOW PUT THE COIN IN MY HAND, please keep an eye on it so you know I'm not doing anything fishy". All while with your other hand that's by your side, you tuck the coin away in your pocket. Hell, get people in on it, I once had all the kids that wanted to grip my hand so they could make sure it wouldn't escape (nevermind the fact that it had never been there in the first place). Big movement up, quietly do what you need to do low down and/or as part of another move, make a big deal about something else so anybody who may have started to catch on gets caught up in something else and forgets. Voila! "Magic." This is /exactly/ what Miles does. He starts to sit down with a drink in his hand. As he's doing so, he both points UP at Birdie with her beautiful dress ("This is my beautiful assistant who will aid me in this magical adventure!"). He also as part of the movement of sitting, quietly hands Duke the cup with the other hand, (small movements low down). Bam. Deed is done, nobody was paying attention, and if they did they were too busy watching Birdie to really commit it to memory. That's what Miles is. A showman, a magician. A practitioner of tricks and misdirection and ultimately, pretending to be something you're not. Which to me sums up his character pretty well.

Basically yeah. It’s why I love the anime Food Wars. The main character isn’t a genius or special, he just refuses to give up.

Reminds me of the Orks from 40K. They're not stupid, just simple. If smashing something gets the job done, it's not stupid.

lol and I only knew the gordian knot reference because I enjoy epic rap battles of history!

that's... brilliant

Great writing!!

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I feel like I’m the only one that thought Glass Onion was horseshit. Why does everyone think its one of the smartest films ever made: the plot is SO fucking dumb

@@korokleafgaming6863 even Benoit Blanc says it's dumb and unworthy of being deemed brilliant.

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Great minds think alike 😎

Right - on the Duke’s mum point, I’m more going off the fact that her house (while still pretty nice) is by far the most modest dwelling we see in the film, and lots of the decor seems to be Duke’s. Within the film, that does seem to stand in opposition to the lavish world of the ‘disrupters’ we see I’m sure she’s a successful person in many ways none of the disrupters are - but just going off what the film gives us, she doesn’t seem to be on their material level. (And re: Helen as true disrupter, I think you’re bang on - digging into that is what I was thinking of doing were I to make another GO video!)

Fair enough, movies being a visual medium there is an inherent bias toward judging based on what we see. Our brain uses pattern recognition to assess our circumstances and is so much faster than our thinking processes. This makes presumption a vital tool for any medium where directors worry about how much time it takes to tell their story. As a counterpoint (just some good natured fun) I would offer the real world example of Warren Buffet, and we have no idea how Lionel decorates his domicile. In any case, I like how you analyze and summarize, so I will keep an eye out for more of your vids! Cheers!

His mother is not any more special. She just comes from a different time. This is shown by her smacking her grown man son She has done these puzzles already since that was what they did in their time- board games, puzzles, riddles. She is showing the old ways compared to the new. All of them had no idea where to begin with the puzzle You can also see how she is old school from when Whiskey asks what is that...the mom tells her she doesn't know when she does. This is an action to Whiskey frowning on feminism so she does not share knowledge with her since she is from the age of feminist birth

The movies are social commentary.

But he did figure out both the "Murder" of Miles and how Miles murdered Andi's, it's just that he's used to smart and tricky situation that dumb stuff confuses him

@@djpegao I’m talking about figuring out a murder by himself without the help of someone like Marta or Andi

@@wiredant6497 Every Sherlock has their Holmes

@@praguepride9350 sorry what?😂

Yeah I guess I thought that didn’t need pointing out explicitly, that’s why I sort of gestured towards it with some of the clips used instead To be honest, the idea for this video making before/during the making of it was more focused on what the puzzle boxes represented and the role cultural capital played here than the ending, and the way this created symbolism is destroyed Plus I was maybe planning to focus on Helen’s destructive/disruptive role in another video down the road, this point would probably have been more useful there, so I also didn’t want to repeat myself But yeah in retrospect I probably should have brought that up here also lol

@@PillarofGarbage Yes, I picked up on that, I just wanted to hear it because I hadn't heard it anywhere else. I look forward to another video!

Probably because of Duke or Birdie.

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I love that Helen suggested it was Miles immediately and Blanc was like "no, that'd be a really stupid thing to do" and then it turns out that yes, it WAS just a stupid thing he did. That one line had me pretty much convinced it was him the rest of the movie. Perfect setup and payoff

I mean… It was pretty obvious the rich asshole wasn’t smart. Not that hard a guess.

@@DeathnoteBB he wasn't just not smart he was a total idiot and didn't even do one thing by himself. And being played by Edwart norton not many people would have thought he would be clueless to such an extent.

@@apoorvsingh4459 Yeah… again: Rich asshole. As for the Edward Norton thing, I mean that’s what acting is.

He's a brilliant detective who's been given the broken box. He could probably figure out what it was supposed to be by looking at the broken pieces.

I dont think he did- he never refers to them specificly, only as 'childrens games'. I think he traded on his reputation as a genius detective (which he'd just reinforced by ripping apart miles's murder mystery) to misdirect that he hasnt actually completed the puzzles (or seen them at all) - because of course they are llike childrens games *to him*. Remember, helen smashed the box, so there's no way either of them could know what the actual puzzles were- even if they could make an educated guess based on the remaining peices. I think benoit meant his 'childrens puzzles' comment as a metaphore. The fact that we, the audience, know that it's LITERALY TRUE is just hysterical to me. Miles Bron really is just an idiot. Benoit Blanc came up with the most dismissive insult he could think of to impress the man whos house they are infiltrating. AND HE TURNED OUT TO BE RIGHT. no wonder he was yelling in his end scene!

How that guy has one of the most subscribed podcasts confounds me.

Cassandra and Helen How on Earth did I miss that 🤯