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The movie doesn’t “cheat” as far as I can tell. What it does is withhold details from what the camera shows the audience. This could be upsetting if you felt th
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
The movie doesn’t “cheat” as far as I can tell. What it does is withhold details from what the camera shows the audience. This could be upsetting if you felt there was some implied promise that the camera PoV was showing you the entire story, but there isn’t.
- sliken 4y agoNow showing things is fair, after all it wouldn't be a who done it, if they showed everything. But the movie showed fake video to hide what really happened. Only at the end did they show the real video.
- cantaloupe 4y agoThe original scene shows exactly what ended up being important. Only later false memories being recalled show the scene incorrectly.
- Hamuko 4y agoAnd if you watched Knives Out, you probably know that the movie is taking you down the wrong path before it flips the narrative.
- bambax 4y agoAgain, I haven't seen the movie -- but that does sound a little like cheating to me; the implied assumption is that it should be possible for the audience to come up with a valid theory on their own; if it's not possible because some essential piece of the puzzle is missing, then it is cheating.
- ghaff 4y agoBy that criterion, a lot of detective fiction cheats. Someone else mentioned Agatha Christie's Murder of the Orient Express. And Then There Was One/Ten Little Indians probably qualifies too and I'm sure there are many others from Christie and others.
- matthewdgreen 4y agoIt was very obvious from the moment Benoit Blanc reveals the nature of his invitation to the island that some essential element of the story was being withheld.