Three years after the success of Knives Out, director Rian Johnson (Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi) returns with a new Cluedo-style investigation, available on Netflix. We give you 6 reasons not to miss this puzzle, in which the tech giants are very expensive.
Elon Musk invites his rich friends to party and participate in a small murder party on his private island. This is how we could sum it up Glass Onion: A story at loggerheads (with a bit of caricature). One of the most anticipated films of the year is finally available on Netflix, just in time to become the Christmas card of 2022.
This semi-sequel to the excellent At loggerheads (2019) uses certain codes: an enigmatic investigation to be solved, led by detective Benoît Blanc (played by the always James Bondesque Daniel Craig), and an impressive audience of stars. If the first part featured Chris Evans (avengers), Lakeith Stanfield (Atlanta) or Ana de Armas (blade runner 2049), Glass Onion does not have to be ashamed of its new cast with big names like Edward Norton (fight club), Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy) or Kathryn Hahn (Wanda vision).
So take a seat by the fire, prepare your best plaid and your wildest theories: here are 6 reasons to let yourself be tempted by Glass Onion at the end of the year.
Glass Onion is above all a well-crafted puzzle
We’re not going to lie to each other: it’s a bit like the basis of Agatha Christie-style police investigations, but it’s always nice to see that the outcome isn’t as obvious as you might think. Rian Johnson already managed to surprise us in At loggerheadsby developing an intelligent subject on social classes, and he renews the experience with Glass Onion.
Get ready to rack your brains on Morse code, optical illusions or Bach compositions, while honing your skills as an unparalleled investigator. Especially since with the organization of this murder party on a private island, the film offers an interesting mise-en-abîme to the genre.
Daniel Craig plays Among Us with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
How not to mention the talent of Glass Onion for cameos? From the introduction of the film, detective Benoît Blanc pays for a short session of the video game Among Us, live from his bath. He is accompanied in video by nothing less than the iconic American basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or the unforgettable actress ofOrange is the New Black and Russian DollNatasha Lyonne.
Glass Onion multiplies the unexpected interventions of stars: the tennis player Serena Williams as a sports coach, the actress of the cult series ArabesqueAngela Lansbury or comedians Hugh Grant (Love Actually), Ethan Hawke (Moon Knight) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception) in strange roles, which we let you discover.
When Elon Musk meets the Covid, Glass Onion becomes your worst nightmare (but it’s awesome)
It’s simple: the Netflix film draws the best of from the worst of recent years, between umpteenth waves of Covid, new energies to be harnessed and ever wackier ideas from Elon Musk. But don’t go so fast: Glass Onion is far from being a sad observation of these repeated disasters, on the contrary.
Rian Johnson instead handles with talent the art of irony and caricature, parodying the most unbearable billionaires, the controversies over an alleged “woke” threat and ignored ecological disasters. Glass Onion thus takes place at the very beginning of the Covid pandemic, in May 2020. The film finds ingenious tricks so that its characters (literally) drop the mask from the first minutes, but this backdrop arrives at the right time to serve the narration.
Glass Onion marvelously criticizes the impunity of the rich (and their debility)
In Glass Onion, it is our own mixed feeling of revulsion and curiosity for billionaires that is pointed out. The film also takes malicious pleasure in mocking the impunity of these luxurious characters, who are not worried about anything, not even after drug trafficking or racist statements.
As for the central character of Miles Bron (played by Edward Norton), who brings together his close “friends” on his personal island, we cannot say that he shines with his intelligence. Always on the lookout for new projects like NFTs for children, the wealthy entrepreneur invents a life of genius, of “disruptor”. Any resemblance to reality is of course not coincidental.
Give Janelle Monáe an Oscar
Soul singer and actress (Figures of Shadow) non-binary is the revelation of Glass Onion, without any hesitation. His play, as cold as it is mischievous, fits perfectly with his character, excluded from Miles Bron’s project in mode The Social Network. We already loved her a lot for her multifaceted artistic talent and her commitment to the LGBTQIA+ community, but Janelle Monáe explodes all the meters with her performance in Glass Onion.
Beatles fans will be satisfied
If you’re a connoisseur of the Fab Four discography, you’ve probably been intrigued by the very title of the film. Glass Onion indeed refers to a Beatles song, composed for the White Albumreleased in 1968. The music also serves as the end credits to this puzzle whose twists will turn your brain as much as the most psychedelic pieces of the group.
The most attentive will also notice the presence of Blackbirdalso on the White Album and played in the film by Edward Norton, who boasts of owning Paul McCartney’s original guitar… Before carelessly throwing it in the sand. Well, we told you: Glass Onion is indeed a satire of the debility of billionaires, not to be missed.
