Knives Out (2017)

[ase]

Tonight I watched Knives Out. It was a very me movie viewing. First: watching a movie five years after everyone else. Second: appreciating most of the cinematography, scoring, and actor cameos, but probably missing several important cameos. Third: moderately hung up on the medication twist's real-life plausibility, and whether Marta would still get nailed for a med error by the state nursing board, because she "should have" read the labels.

Though - now that she's inherited the house, the liquid assets, and Harlan's intellectual property, keeping her nursing license active may be less critical to Marta's future life plans.

Comments

[cahn]

I'm not reading your spoiler, but should I watch it? :)

(Me: watching a movie five years after everyone else AND after you! :) )

[ase]

If you like a murder mystery in a country house, this might be the movie for you!

If you do not care for murder mysteries, this might be considerably lower on the watch list!

(Helpful, I know.)

[cahn]

no, that is helpful! I like Agatha Christie books, although I have not watched that many movie mysteries, it is true. I will put it below Death on the Nile (which I want to watch because I have been informed that Angela Lansbury is in it) but somewhere above... lots of other movies!

[lizbee]

That has been a minor hang-up of mine from the start - if she was as good a nurse as Blanc said, she'd have spotted the swapped labels.

ugh - now that she's inherited the house, the liquid assets, and Harlan's intellectual property, keeping her nursing license active may be less critical to Marta's future life plans.

This, and I suspect it's the sort of thing where a note goes on one's record (including extenuating circumstances like a guy actively framing her for murder) and maybe she's subject to closer reviews going forward.

[ase]

if she was as good a nurse as Blanc said, she'd have spotted the swapped labels.

As someone who's used similar rubber-cap vials in different circumstances, I'm trying to figure out how Marta would have missed the needle-marks from Ransom's tampering. But once you start pulling the thread suspending disbelief, there's a lot to unravel. People really like the Knives Out message, but the structure could be tighter.