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Knives Out 2019
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Knives out is thought of by many as a “mystery” film. There is a “murder”, there is an entire cast of “suspects”, there is an “investigator”, and there is a building chain of revelations that complicates the primary conflict. All staples of tried-and-true mystery story-craft.
There’s just on problem: the dramatic question is not one of mystery, but dramatic irony.
As Robert McKee describes them, “mystery” is when the audience knows less than the characters, and “dramatic irony” is when…
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