TIFF 2022 : The Fabelmans, Glass Onion
Spielberg never presented a movie at the TIFF, but Rian Johnson is a regular. Three years ago he showed “Knives Out” in Toronto, and he came back tonight with his “Glass Onion,” a movie that really follows the opus of the “bigger, faster, more” tracking theory. It’s not supposed to be as striking as that in the air, although some will say that the first film is more airy and that the Polar should not reach 140 minutes. They’re not really wrong, and yet there’s so much to enjoy in this movie – so many sharp, beautiful scenery, smart lines and playful performances. For many people expected, it’s a more “fun” movie than the first one – you can feel the joy of everyone on the set when they entered Johnson’s puzzle of a script and played their play.
Glass Onion : Don’t worry! No spoilers!
“ Glass Onion ” opens with a beauty of a set– up. A tech billionaire named Miles Bron( Edward Norton) is inviting his old musketeers to a murder riddle party on a Greek islet. He calls them his “ disruptors, ” people who do n’t play by the rules and frequently get into trouble for doing so. There’s model Birdie Jay( Kate Hudson), who has made enough social media blunders that her adjunct Peg( Jessica Henwick) has taken down her phone. There’s Duke Cody( Dave Bautista), a macho Twitch banderole who likes to talk about oversights and ordnance and brings his gal( Madelyn Cline) along on the trip. Her name is Whiskey. There’s the politician who Miles has subsidized to do his bidding, Claire Debella( Kathryn Hahn). And there’s tech whiz Lionel Toussaint( Leslie OdomJr.), whom Miles faxes wild ideas in the middle of the night and expects Lionel to make them real. Oh, and there’s Cassandra Brand( the scene– stealing Janelle Monae), the other half of the company that Bron used to make his billions before dealing her out. Eventually, there’s an unanticipated guest at the party, a man that Miles claims to haven’t indeed invited, oneMr. Benoit Blanc( Daniel Craig).
That’s where the plot description will stop, although it would be actually delicate to spoil this film in 1000 words or lower because it has that numerous twists and turns. Indeed the identity of the victim( or conceivably victims) is unanticipated, much less the final results of Blanc’s rearmost disquisition. serve to say, this is another case in which everyone on this islet wants someone differently on this islet dead. Blanc is wading into a ocean of rich, putrefied, stupid piranha, and Johnson is formerly again discharging how wealth and fame don’t equal intelligence or decency — in fact, the contrary is frequently true. The first film was about old plutocrat, and the alternate film is about new plutocrat, the kind frequently granted to the most vicious and luckiest people over those who earn it.
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