GLASS ONION is Satire Done Wrong 

Is that a statistic?

yeah quite a lot of rich people are pretty egregiously stupid. Musk, for example, is above average intelligence for sure but he is absolutely no genius. He can be pretty f'ing stupid. Some of his business decisions have been catastrophically dumb (see Twitter), some of the egregiously stupid things he believes (idiotic conspiracy theories, et cetera, that are easily disproven) are the sorts of things a normal person would be embarrassed to repeat in public, and these and other things prove he is kind of a dumbass and likely the most overrated intellect of our time. And this has nothing to do with politics. I've got friends who are legitimate geniuses working in tech and science and engineering who hate the guy and have been mocking him and his many dumb ideas ruthlessly since the 2000s. And they're always right, too. Musk overpromises all the time and doesn't understand the stuff he talks about. He takes credit for other peoples' work and loves to slap his name on things... swoop in on projects and companies that are already doing well and call himself a co-founder when he did nothing important... sort of like Steve Jobs. I'm convinced the bulk of his success comes down to luck. Most of it early on. And then... in America... once you are rich.. it's very hard to become anything other than that. The system is set up to make you richer. If wealthy CEOS were so smart they would not ever back or donate to Republicans, who are proven to be horrible for the economy, especially not authoritarians like Trump whose policies, if enacted, would be absolutely devastating and end up costing these people much MUCH more than whatever tax cuts saved them. You have to be pretty astoundingly ignorant and short-sighted to think getting a tax cut is better than having a healthy and stable economy and a functioning democracy (not to mention global order that opposes other despots like Putin and supports our allies and international trade, an environment that's not going to kill us all, a pool of workers companies can hire without having to worry about them all being deported, a healthcare system that will keep those workers healthy, infrastructure, security, sensible pandemic response, etc etc etc) No amount of tax cuts is worth giving up all of the above. We could cut Peter Thiel's taxes to 0%... and he would still lose more money under a Trump presidency than under a Harris one. So...yeah... he's acting very stupidly. All of the above being said Glass Onion is an incredibly stupid movie and Rian Johnson is a hack and his movies, especially the writing, sucks. The plot device about the Mona Lisa was so f'ing dumb and just perfectly representative of how Johnson has no respect for the work of artists superior to himself, and so feels the need to try and destroy it (just in this movie quite literally). Same as he's done with other films he's worked on.

Evidence: Elon Musk

@@The_Unemployed_Engineer 1 person doesn't account for an entire group

@@Qqq99969 Asking for statistics is silly, tech billionaires aren't agreeing to do IQ tests. A lot of tech billionaires have the good sense to not publicize all their dumb thoughts, which makes it harder to analyse their intelligence level. Elon publicizes his dumb thoughts a little too much...

Thanks for your post. Better analysis than the video itself, in my opinion.

Whether or not a plan backfires has nothing to do with wealth and luxury. His stupidity, as the film advocates for, is the reason he gets away with things (which i find to be poorly justified). He has a right to refuse an uninvited guest. He owns the island and Benoit just shows up by surprise. It might even be more suspicious to allow him access. But who knows because Miles is dumb or something. Also, I made the same point about self preservation. Blanc literally didn't spot that the gun was missing. He even says "oh fiddlesticks". Blanc was with the body for a good minute and yet the fact that he's a world famous (competent) detective seems to have been forgotten by the writers.

no his wealth shielding him from negative outcomes is like a core plot point, when his company makes a deadly new fuel and andy tries to reveal it to the world it fails because everyone lies on his behalf in order to stay by his wealthy side. He has the right to reject Blanc sure, but if he did it would be suspicious given Blanc is a famous detective, its also reasonable to assume miles literally thinks someone hired blanc as a prank (he even says as much in the movie) As for kicking out andy, what possible excuse could he use, "I invited her sure but she should be dead so I'm kicking her off the island" if he thinks it the real andy he knows the wrong move ruins him and given how bad he is under pressure his only recourse is to come up with a plan. (killing her when nobody can pin the blame on him) I forgot Blanc says o fiddlesticks, maybe it is a mistake that he doesn't notice the gun, maybe its him playing dumb like he does for most of the movie, maybe we are meant to assume he is preoccupied with the dead body, or its just bad writing for that scene.

@@somanken "or its just bad writing" There you have it lol

@@TheMijman you should be a surgeon with your skill at extracting something so precisely without touching anything around it.

At that point, we’re assessing the quality of the point it makes. A film in and of itself can be poorly written ans it can still have a point to make. But when the text is bad, then the execution of any subtext, meta reference or irony cannot possibly be good. For example: Suicide Squad is agreed upon to be a bad film. But we can still say it has a message: that working together, despite our differences, can be what is best for everyone involved. That message exists even though the film itself is awful. The execution of the idea is what’s important, not the idea itself.

@@VeternovaYT yes, but it’s not that bad with glass onion compared to suicide squad. But yes, glass onion was not a good movie.