After the brilliant, light and summer vacation special that was Glass onionTHE Knives The franchise returns to its Gothic roots with a winter whodunit which, for at least some, could last as the best to date. Where the first and the second used the mysterity of murder as a jump point for a very funny contemporary satire, Wake up is much more introspective. In a fun way, it is a bit similar to Joker 2Not because he unloads on his audience in the same acerbic way, but because he asks similar metaphysical questions about his own popularity. Why do people react so impatient to the stories of murder and betrayal? To answer this, director Rian Johnson dates back to the biggest story ever told, using a small religious community as a framework for the third episode.
He begins with a young priest, Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor), writing a long letter in free hand, asking for help. Former boxer with a bad reputation, he explains how his bad character took over him, making him go for another priest in the face. To an account with his elders, Jud apologizes for his actions, explaining that he feels that his religion is threatened (“a priest is a shepherd, and that the world is a wolf”). The other religious see his point, but they still have to be seen to punish him. Consequently, Jud is sent to a church in a small town, Notre-Dame de la grace perpetual, that the resident priest, Mgr Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), met the ground with his ardent sermons.
Wicks wants to impose on this and begins to undermine Jud on each turn, even having him take his richer growing confessionals (“At the beginning, I thought it was just weird, but now I realize that it was the first punch”). Wicks gathered a fairly faithful congregation around him, starting with the Martha Delacroix ultra -oyal (Glenn Close), who has a strange thing by happening with the strong and silent soldier Samson (Thomas Haden Church). And unlike the first two Knives The films, the suspects this time are a darker, worse and less easily readable group: a lawyer with a secret (Kerry Washington), a doctor with wedding problems (Jeremy Renner), a disabled concert (Cailee Spaeny) and a short reader (Andrew Scott). All flock to Mgr Wicks, designed by his sophisticated and the formidable intimidative hen magnetism.
There is a lot of background in the written testimony of Jud, involving a lot of the mother of Bishop Wicks, a “harlot whore” which apparently made a destructive unleashing in the church after the death of his father leaving his penny. His biggest crime was to demolish the crucifix of the centerpiece, and Wicks refuses to replace it, leaving a dusty outline where it was. This absence – of God, of love, of the simple community spirit – is a metaphor of the whole parish, where everyone is defined by their own shortcomings and deficiencies, the weaknesses which make the locks despise them and judge all.
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So, wait, you may think-isn’t that a Benoit Blanc mystery? And that’s how, with Daniel Craig Finally Make your big starter after about the 45 -minute brand. We soon learn that Jud writes this mini memory on the insistence of Benoit, and therefore the games begin. The catalyst for Benoit’s interest in the case, it is transformed, is that after a long period of enmity with Jud, Wicks was found stabbed in an empty Sideroom, the perfect crime and an excellent example of a locking mystery novel, Artform the Congregation studied in their reading club, Reading Novels by Dorothy L. Sayer, Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, Including 1935 books, including 1935 Books, 1935 Book, 1935 Book, 1935 Book, 1935 Book, 1935 Book, 1935 Book, 1935 Book, 1935 Book, 1935 Book, 1935 Book, 1935 Book, 1935 Book, 1935 Book, 1935 Book. The hollow man is mentioned a plot. (“Who chose these books?” Drawls Benoit. “Oprah”, comes the answer.)
There is no longer to follow, which concerns the title of the film and is rather laborious to discuss in a journal without spoilers. Needless to say, it depends on the date of death of Archbishop Wicks and, once again, of evaluation of mysteries to the Gospels; Benoit is an atheist, but he understands that people Need to know is what keeps him in business (it is revealed that he was once The view). In fact, despite his reflections on organized religion (“a bubble of treacherous belief”), one has the impression that Benoit is really rather jealous of Mgr Wicks.
Although it follows a configuration similar to the first two films-an a-game distribution, a-list hiding in sight in the roles of support-there are not so many jokes this time (the presence of Renner has nothing to do with his spicy sauce, like an overview in Glass onion), and there is a little less camp value in the way it leaves us to determine the identity of the culprit. There is a comedy for sure, but this time, the Benoit usually out of the way for a place for an acolyte in the form of Jud – “on the city with Father Brown”, says Benoit, a reference to the Clerk of crime solution of GK Chesterton of the same name. What is also new is one of Johnson’s best writings, on modernity and miracles, on faith in the impossible.
Do not take this to signify that all the pleasure has been sucked, however; far from it. As a character does, “there are obviously scooby-doo that take place here.” And don’t know it, there is damn well.
Title: Wake up dead man: a knives out mystery review
Festival: Toronto (special presentations)
Distributer: Netflix
Director-Screenwriter: Rian Johnson
Casting: Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church
Operating time: 2 h 24 minutes
