Knives Out (2019) - Follow Your 'Good' Heart

★★★★☆

'Knives Out' is an intriguing, entertaining film with a very good intention, which is to remind that as long as you follow your good heart and do what it tells you to, everything will turn out just fine even if it looks bleak! It may or may not be so true but a film like that is certainly comforting and encouraging in a time like this where good people usually don't seem to get what they deserve!

The film's as ingenious as how Detective Benoit Blanc played by Daniel Craig interprets the case, 'a donut hole in the donut's hole, but look a little closer, it's not a donut hole at all but a smaller donut with its own hole and the donut is not whole at all.' I'm not smart enough to get what he's saying though, but the thing is, it gets you so focused on what the right hand is doing that you miss the left. And when you think you have it all figured out, something just doesn't add up. You feel very involved watching it play out and in the end, as the mystery finally unravels, you don't feel fooled or cheated at all, but convinced and satisfied.

Having not seen a nice detective story in a long while, 'Knives Out' is sure to be an eye-catcher, I mean the whole setup and Daniel Craig's performance here which is, not showing off his masculinity like he usually did before, rather humorous and very funny and charismatic. There're some other famous faces you may recognize too but they don't seem to have enough screen time to show off their acting, so don't bother. To keep it as mysterious as possible throughout is all that matters I guess. The assembling are just there to put up a good show to tease and confuse on purpose.

Ana de Armas's Marta finally is able to get out of trouble because she does something that a panicked, doubtful, selfish soul would probably not. Some may have a wrong perception of karma not being that fair sometimes, but it is very, not a bit less or more. You always get just what you deserve! Just because you're not seeing it doesn't mean it's not coming. It's just that the conditions are not yet ripe. Sure you can keep delaying or altering the conditions, consciously or unconsciously, to make it look like it never comes and chances are, even if it has, you just don't recognize it. And don't expect to erase what's done wrong with what's done right. That's not how Karma works, though! Sad but true!