Knives Out, an English movie, is not currently screening in Hyderabad.
Cast
Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana De Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, Christopher Plummer
Punarvasu Pendseon 13th Jun 2024, 12:16pm | Permalink
Our views on what is 'sophomoric' seem to differ, and that's okay.
It is a well-written mystery that pays homage to Agatha Christie - who was quite known for stuffing her novels with her own political inclinations, as you term it. I would expect nothing less, quite frankly, Rian Johnson got that bit spot on too!
In May 2015, this reviewer attended a lecture by Dennis Altman at the Sydney Writers Festival where the professor spoke in depth about the most-read mystery writer of all time. Though the topic at hand was the ironic appreciation of Agatha Christie and the hidden homo-erotic references in her books, the final take that the people present then understood was that there is immense pleasure in watching how cunningly she leads us to the eventual denouement.
No, the objective of that short paragraph was not to prove how erudite we are. All we wanted to say is that Agatha Christie is th....