It's the line we needed to close off this decade.The phrase "the nazi boy masturbating in the bathroom" has played on repeat in my head for the last 24 hours.
This is not a complaint.
It's the line we needed to close off this decade.The phrase "the nazi boy masturbating in the bathroom" has played on repeat in my head for the last 24 hours.
This is not a complaint.
Linda was independently rich, that doesn't mean she wouldn't want even more (indeed, that's usually the case).Linda couldn't be entirely self sufficient after the way she acted when the Will was read. Ransom was entirely dependent on Harlan's money. Cutting Joni off for stealing was justified, but that tuition money seemed highly egregious. And not only did Harlan make Walt dependent on him, he also admittedly thought him beneath him.
I think I might just be drawn to movies where everybody is in a nice sweater all the time
I was in tears at the delivery by CraigThe phrase "the nazi boy masturbating in the bathroom" has played on repeat in my head for the last 24 hours.
This is not a complaint.
Yep, he tried to bribe the copsDid I see a money stack in Richard's hand when the cop was dragging away Ransom?
"Dogs are a good judge of character"
I can't imagine college costing 40,000 or 400,000 each year.Linda was independently rich, that doesn't mean she wouldn't want even more (indeed, that's usually the case).
Ransom's money wasn't coming from Harlan, it was coming from his parents. Harlan just told him that he wouldn't be inheriting anything from Harlan.
What was egregious about the tuition?
The most expensive colleges in America all cost at least $57,000 per year, with the #1, Sarah Lawrence College, at $61,000.
I'm still unsure because I thought he said 400,000 even though 40,000 seems more correct.The most expensive colleges in America all cost at least $57,000 per year, with the #1, Sarah Lawrence College, at $61,000.
He said $100,000 per year, I believe. Maybe assume he's counting living expenses as well, but I'd guess Johnson just threw in a big number (it's not like all the little details in this movie are especially accurate -- he has a lawyer say he had to be specifically asked not to submit the will to probate until Harlan was dead, for instance).I'm still unsure because I thought he said 400,000 even though 40,000 seems more correct.
Honestly fuck Harlan too. Raising them to be tit-suckers and then expecting them to be self sufficient on there own? Is he serious? That whole family was dependent on you by YOUR design and now you want them to be self reliant out of the blue?
The film definitely doesn't want to leave you with the impression that Harlan was a great guy or anything. He clearly fucked up, and him cutting the family off was his effort to make up for his mistakes in life, but like Blanc says, Marta won out in the end by being a totally different, better person than anyone in that family - including Harlan.
But he has to be a kind old fatherly figure to Marta first and foremost so you don't question why she put faith in him, so the whole "Harlan's an ass" thing isn't pressed too hard.
"The Last Jedi" of murder-mystery movies.
Like TLJ, KO seems to exist to subvert tropes of it's genre. But the movie wasn't as smart as it thought it was. Seemingly the lack of a twist was the major twist. A suicide remained a suicide. Chris Evans entered the movie as the likeliest suspect of the "murder" and it pretty much ran a straight line back to him by the end.
Personal opinion but the lack of surprise should not be the surprise.
Maybe a better "twist = no twist" would have been the closing shot of Marta drinking from the "My house. My coffee. My rules." mug and then she giving a subtle smile before cutting to credits. The realization that Marta was in fact the "murderer". And the murder weapon? The family's greed.
The movies continually establishes that the family kept fucking themselves over and then further by attempting to amend with greed. And Marta is the innocent girl who accidentally "kills" and then spends the movie trying to lie and obstruct the truth. That then she would be revealed to have used the family's greed as a tool to con them out of their own fortune and fool the maybe-not-as-good-as-he-thinks-he-is legendary detective with her "good heart".
IDK feels like Marta actually being the bad guy would have worked better to subvert murder-mystery tropes than pretty much knowing the whole story in the first 20-30 mins and then waiting for the movie to get there.
Partway through the film I thought she might've been an actual mastermind killer, but that would go against one of the core themes of the film and position Marta as an immigrant murderer (with an undocumented mother)...completely justifying the alt right mentality of some of Harlan's family and also normalizing those ideas to audiences. That'd be a terrible direction to go.
...So there really was no reason for meg to have turned on marta. Fucking hellThere is one bit I didn't pick up til I saw it mentioned elsewhere.
Harlan paid FIVE years of Meg's tuition up til that point.
...So there really was no reason for meg to have turned on marta. Fucking hell
Watch Columbo, where the joy is entirely around watching the guilty party squirm in fear as they walls close in around them. That's entirely what the back 2/3rds of this plays like.Pretty much, this. Not necessarily Marta, but this genre should have more twists. This was way too straight forward and predictable as soon as they show Marta "killing" the patriarch and focus way too much on her being the killer and thwarting the detective. I guess I like these to be about the detective solving the crime. 🤷♂️
So since Blanc said he knew of Marta's involvement from the beginning, was he just pretending to bumble around and missing clues here and there (the ones Marta was trying to cover up) ?
He says himself "you have nothing to gain from Harlan's death". So that's enough for him to sit back and see how things play out.
He knew everything. he noticed the blood on her shoes, he would know she's the only one who could have wiped the VHS tape, he expected she covering up her footprints, etc. She's a really bad liar even without her medical condition. What makes it fun is that he also wanted to see how far she would take it because he wanted to see what her ultimate intent was. If she played the game "their" way and tried to be a bad person covering stuff up, she would have lost really easily. She only ended up ahead because she was really a good person deep down and she stopped pretending to be someone she's not.So stuff like happening to be distracted when Marta throws that broken piece of the wooden frame, was that genuine or him sitting back. I'm guessing he knew Marta was trying to cover up her own foot prints ?
He knew everything. he noticed the blood on her shoes, he would know she's the only one who could have wiped the VHS tape, he expected she covering up her footprints, etc. She's a really bad liar even without her medical condition. What makes it fun is that he also wanted to see how far she would take it because he wanted to see what her ultimate intent was. If she played the game "their" way and tried to be a bad person covering stuff up, she would have lost really easily. She only ended up ahead because she was really a good person deep down and she stopped pretending to be someone she's not.
LIke Craig said to the great-grandma, the truth is black and white, but the grey lies in what you do with the truth after you have it. Facts are one thing, seeing the complexities of what the facts mean is what he felt his job as a detective really was.
From what I read online, it was a voice cameo as he's heard on a TV as said detectiveDid anyone notice Joseph Gordon Leavitt? My wife noticed his name in the credits as Detective Hardrock. I'm guessing he's one of the guys taking Ransom away at the end. I know him and Rian are buddies since Brick
Pretty sure he was the Noir Detective voice in the unseen TV Show/Movie Marta's sister was watching that her mother asked to turn offDid anyone notice Joseph Gordon Leavitt? My wife noticed his name in the credits as Detective Hardrock. I'm guessing he's one of the guys taking Ransom away at the end. I know him and Rian are buddies since Brick
From what I read online, it was a voice cameo as he's heard on a TV as said detective
Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks!Pretty sure he was the Noir Detective voice in the unseen TV Show/Movie Marta's sister was watching that her mother asked to turn off
I think it's just a voice cameo as a detective on TV, I don't think he saw any screen time.Did anyone notice Joseph Gordon Leavitt? My wife noticed his name in the credits as Detective Hardrock. I'm guessing he's one of the guys taking Ransom away at the end. I know him and Rian are buddies since Brick
There's also the mystery hanging over him of who hired him.So stuff like happening to be distracted when Marta throws that broken piece of the wooden frame, was that genuine or him sitting back. I'm guessing he knew Marta was trying to cover up her own foot prints ?
God, this family.
Even the supposedly liberal daughter provides information to her family that could put Marta's mother at risk of deportation, knowing full-well at how illegal immigrants are treated by the US government, all for her tuition. And even after Marta expresses that she's willing to help her, the daughter immediately hangs up once she knows she's getting what she wants.
This could also always be shes a student taking her sweet time to graduate or changing majors often. I graduated from a bachelor's in 5 years because I switched majors late in my junior year. I don't think they ever outright specified if she's an undergrad or doing a masters did they? Cause if so she could have always gone straight to a masters degree. 5 years just tells me she's not someone who had their path and goals to be a straight shot.There is one bit I didn't pick up til I saw it mentioned elsewhere.
Harlan paid FIVE years of Meg's tuition up til that point.