Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery/YMMV
These things about Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.
- Alternate Character Interpretation:
- In-universe, we get some different views of Andi; not helping is she's been dead for a week, so flashbacks and testimony from her sister and the Disruptors. Helen describes Andi as having a conscience, that tapered her ambition unlike with Miles. Thing is Andi also befriended the Disruptors in the first place and asked them to give Miles a chance when introducing him to her circle.
- In the climax, the killer notes that while Helen could try to testify against him, without the napkin there is no proof that Andi actually owned and founded Alpha and no one actually saw him poison his own glass to give to Duke, go to Andi's house, shoot at Helen, or take a look at the real napkin. To prove his point, none of the Disruptors say anything. Look at their faces though: they're horrified and disgusted, with some looking scared. They then join in on Helen's rampage as she starts smashing the glass sculptures. Maybe they were frozen with terror on realizing one of their best friends and benefactors was a killer.
- Epileptic Trees: Since Noah Segan appears in this movie as a random guy who hangs out with Miles on his island and smokes, and he played Trooper Wagner in the first movie some people have theorized that Trooper Wagner was undercover and ready to help Benoit with this murder case.
- Genius Bonus: Quite a few exist:
- The real Mona Lisa is painted on wood, while the one that Miles has in his living room is painted on canvas. Given how expensive the painting is, it's highly likely the Louvre didn't trust him with such a work and sent him a replica, knowing that Miles wasn't smart enough to know the difference.
- The real napkin is hidden in a Fibonacci sequence, in a framed painting with the fake napkin that Miles has mounted.
- Jerkass Woobie:
- Lionel. The guy did stab Andi in the back and committed perjury on the stand. He fully admits that he is financially indebted to Miles as his boss, and tries to reel him in while selling his team, made up of Only Sane People, that they can trust the work of a genius. Yet when we see Lionel on the island, he can come off as the Only Sane Man regarding Klear; he warns Miles that, despite agreeing earlier to approve the rocket launch with Klear, he cannot advocate for the fuel being used in the Glass Onion house. It's dangerous for everyone involved because the fuel has never been tested. And in the end, he agrees to testify against Miles and looks at him with clear disgust.
- The Woobie:
- From what we see, Andi, in flashbacks. She was a brilliant woman who changed herself to improve the world with Alpha, only to get blindsided and backstabbed by her friend group.
- Helen Brand, Andi's twin sister. The poor woman is trying to process her brilliant twin sister's suicide while talking herself down as an elementary school teacher. Then she realizes that someone must have murdered Andi after checking her email, but there's no proof.