Knives Out: The Apology For The Last Jedi

Our family occasionally rents a movie from Redbox for Saturday night. Usually, we try to find a film that pleases everyone. Knives Out was one of the films that succeeded. I get a sense of apology, that it’s addressing the issues that Star Wars inadvertently brought up in the second trilogy by changing the direction that The Force Awakens took. There’s nuance in this murder mystery, and a sense of heightened awareness about current problems with white Americans and wealth privileges.

The Last Jedi made this author of color salty, with how it undid Poe and Finn’s respective narrative arcs in favor of the lessons he supposedly needed to learn. Knives Out goes in the opposite direction, where the immigrant lead is driving a portion of the story.

A Brief Summary Of The Movie

Knives Out starts as a murder mystery, segues into a cozy thriller, and then goes back into a murder mystery in the last fifteen to twenty minutes. It concerns the death of a mystery writer, Harlan Thrombey, who supposedly slit his own throat despite not being suicidal or suffering from depression. A private investigator named Benoit Blanc asks the police to conduct an additional investigation to the initial one because an anonymous client hired him with “an envelope of cash” with the implication that the “suicide” was actually a murder.