*SPOILER ALERT* for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
If you've not seen this film yet, you shoud stop reading here. This blog will contain hefty plot spoilers for Glass Onion, a movie that is--and I cannot stress this enough--a mystery.
The Billionaire Mystique
December 05, 2022
Billionaires. Who doesn't love 'em?
They're basically comic book characters made real, right? The whole economy trembles beneath their tweets.
In this mythology, they're lovable eccentric types, generous philanthropists, or hip geniuses. Even the villains have a Machiavellian cunning to them.
I think that even for billionaire-dislikers such as myself, it's easy to assume that they at the very least have some baseline level of competence. It might even be a comfort to assume that the wealthiest people on the planet are all evil geniuses. What's a scarier world- one run by Lex Luthor or one run by Frat Bro Jerry who won the lottery? Lex Luthor probably has some order to his evil if nothing else, and his power is still consistent with the idea of meritocracy, even if the "merit" in this case was just being able to maneuver his way into that position. Frat Bro Jerry is a wild card though. Does he even have an ideology? Could he even be a genuine idealist? He is fundamentally Just Some Guy who stumbled his way into a position of power. He might have any genuine skills whatsoever, but he doesn't need to. You've probably met a bunch of guys just like him.
When my partner and I watched The Death of Stalin a few months back, I said to one that the film humanizes the Ministers in the Soviet Union, but not in the way that the word "humanizes" is generally meant. The council members are all truly awful people, but in a way that's just so banal. It's like if the most toxic friend group/clique that you knew of in high school
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