Knives Out is a two-hour movie about investigating the death of Harlan Thrombey, a mystery novel writer who was found dead in his office with his throat slashed by the housekeeper Fran. After his funeral, the family, along with Marta, his nurse, was questioned by investigators Lieutenant Elliot, Trooper Wagner, and Benoit Blanc, a famous private investigator. The investigation starts with Linda Drysdale, Harlen’s oldest daughter. She owns her own company with the help of her husband, Richard. Questioning her reveals that Harlan died in the evening after his 85th birthday party. She reveals that she heard Walt, her brother, arguing with Harlan at the party. Walt is then called into question after the revelation. Walt recalls the argument but …show more content…
She says no, then vomits in a decorative vase. Blanc then asks her to describe her recollection of the events after the party. She remembers the truth about injecting Harlan with the wrong medication. She remembers telling Harlan that he is going to die and that she needs to call 911, but Harlan stops her. To save Marta and her undocumented mother, he devises a plan and gives her specific instructions. He tells her to make it obvious when she is leaving and tells her to go off the road and return to the house by the side gate. She climbs the trellis through a window, but slips and breaks off a piece. She continues to Harlan’s room, dons his clothes, and goes downstairs so his family can see him alive. When she was leaving, Great Nana saw her. Marta froze in panic, but Great Nana said, “Ransom, are you back already?” After she recollects the events, she gives Blanc a watered-down version of the events without throwing up by following Harlan’s instructions. Then she heads to the bathroom and vomits. Later, during Harlan’s memorial, she had a panic attack due to her guilt. The next day, Blanc asks Marta to join him in his …show more content…
The family is upset at Ransom for missing out on the funeral, but not for the reading of the will. While they argue, Blanc leaves to continue his investigation, but the dogs bring him a piece of broken trellis. The will is read, and it is revealed that the entirety of Harlan’s estate goes to Marta. The family is in disbelief and confronts Marta. She decides to leave, but her car won’t start, so she leaves with Ransom. He takes her to a diner and gives her food. He then tells her that he needs the truth, and he knows that if she lies, she will vomit. She tells him everything, and he promises to help her if he gets his share of the inheritance. Ransom takes her home, but on the next day, tons of press are at her home. She decides to sneak through the back, only to be confronted by Walt. She retreats inside and finds blank mail with a message saying, “I know what you did” and a part of the toxicology report. She calls it Ransom. They go to the medical examiner’s office, where they encounter a fire. The investigators, including Blanc, were there,
They tell her that they have found him but only a part of him. His jaw bone. This make Olivia trave back to her home town Medford. Terry’s family are having his funural so on her way there she decied to stop by her grandmothers old house. In the car she also decied that it would be a good idea to not tell any about who she really was.Olivia happens to meet a woman named Nora that lives next door and she is told that Nora was her grandmothers best friend. At this point Nora tells Olivia lots of information about her family and ends up asking her to take her to Terry’s feneral. This is a preferct cover for her. With being aroud family member that she doesn’t know or have been around makes it even harder to keep her past a sercret. After seeing and hearing lots of things from many different people Olivia wants to solve her perents murders. Along the way after she moves into her grandmother old house she picks up an frien named Duncan and the grow closer and
Mark worried about his cousin considering that her son and husband had abusive tendencies and contacted the authorities. Officers checked the house twice and both times a note was on the front door of the house claiming the family was away. The police returned a third day and forced their way in. The police found the bodies of Randy and Karen Ringquist frozen in the freezer Jeremy had purchased to hide the smell of decay. Mark told the paper; “Karen and her husband didn’t get along. He was abusive to her. And then their son moved in and he was also abusive. He’s a 300 pound kid.” He continued with; “Her life was miserable and I tried to tell her to get out. I said ‘You’ve got to get out of there,’ but she said she had no money and no place to go. There’s no relatives close. I’m probably her closest
The ransom note suggested the perp was not of the Ramsey family, but a possible suspect from John Ramsey job; The note was directed to Mr. Ramsey and referenced his job. Secondly, why would someone leave a ransom note if the victim was already dead? If the crooks wanted or needed the funds they would not have murdered the victim before receiving the ransom. The ransom note was staged to remove the Ramsey’s as suspects. On top of the ransom note the Boulder Police Department, the Ramseys’, the Ramseys’ lawyers, close friends, and legal team contributed to the investigative nightmare of the victim JonBenet. The home was presumably a kidnapping crime scene however the excessive people in the home corrupted the scene. The police did not seal off the crime scene, allowing family and friends to walk around the home. An additional issue is the father John Ramsey, John Ramsey discovered his deceased daughter removed the tape from her mouth, loosened he wrists, and removed the blanket that covered her lifeless body (Douglas & Olshaker, 2000). Not only did Mr. Ramsey remove key evidence from the victim, but transferred the body from the crime scene in the basement to the living room on the second floor and recovered the body with another
...t David’s deceased grandmother. She tells Jeff and Betsy they have to go to police and tell them everything about Mr. Griffin and David’s grandmother she says, “It’s gone past the point where there’s any choice. Whatever they do to us, they’ll have to do.”
The ransom note was photographed in the wrong place, the police did not immediately search the house, and friends and family were allowed to enter the home. Due to the holidays, the coroner arrived more than six hours from when he was called. It was not until 1:20 p.m., a thorough search was proposed and ordered to do by John Ramsey (Ramsland). Since the police allowed family and friends to enter the Ramsey’s home, it enabled various people to touch vital evidence and compromise the crime scene. If the police would have properly secured the crime scene and took affirmative action sooner clear evidence could have been obtained, directing them to the killer. Jonbenet was found in her own home by her father after several hours of “searching” which immediately led people to become suspicious. Most compelling evidence suggests that JonBenet was murdered several hours before she was found. The time frame of death indicates that JonBenet was “abducted” right after her parents put her to bed. Evidence suggests no sign of forced entry, as well as a lack of footprints in the snow surrounding the house. Whoever committed this crime must have been familiar with the layout of the house since the body was hidden in the wine cellar in the basement (Bardsley and Bellamy). With this information, clearly someone inside the house was in some way involved in the murder of JonBenet. To be more specific, all signs point to John
Nevertheless, her attempts are futile as he dismisses her once more, putting his supposed medical opinion above his wife’s feelings. The story takes a shocking turn as she finally discerns what that figure is: a woman. As the story progresses, she believes the sole reason for her recovery is the wallpaper. She tells no one of this because she foresees they may be incredulous, so she again feels the need to repress her thoughts and feelings. On the last night of their stay, she is determined to free the woman trapped behind bars.
The next morning at about 5:00 AM, Patsy found a ransom note on the bottom of the staircase. The note described the kidnapping of JonBenet and demanded $180,000 or JonBenet would be killed. Patsy quickly went to JonBenet’s room and, just as the note had stated, she had been kidnapped. Patsy called her husband and they then contacted the police, who arrived quickly after being called.... ... middle of paper ...
Shortly after 5:00 AM of December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey woke up to find a ransom note on her kitchen staircase. Addressed to her husband it stated that their daughter, JonBenét Ramsey had been kidnapped. According to the note, it demanded a ransom of $118,000 for her safe return, almost exactly the same as the bonus that John Ramsey had recently received. Patsy Ramsey went to JonBenét’s bedroom and discovered that she was not there. John Ramsey called the police to report JonBenét missing at 5:25 AM, even though the note threated that JonBenét would be killed if the police were alerted. The ransom note stated that the kidnappers would be calling the Ramsey’s to give them instructions on how to deliver the ransom money. The call from kidnappers never occurred. Police immediately suspected the Ramsey’s had some type of involvement in the disappearance of their daughter. When her body was discovered eight hours later by John Ramsey and a family friend, it was wrapped in the white blanket from her bed, with a cord around her neck, her hands tied above
Sarah and her mother are sought out by the French Police after an order goes out to arrest all French Jews. When Sarah’s little brother starts to feel the pressures of social injustice, he turns to his sister for guidance. Michel did not want to go with the French Police, so he asks Sarah to help him hide in their secret cupboard. Sarah does this because she loves Michel and does not want him to be discriminated against. Sarah, her mother, and her father get arrested for being Jewish and are taken to a concentration camp just outside their hometown. Sarah thinks Michel, her beloved brother, will be safe. She says, “Yes, he’d be safe there. She was sure of it. The girl murmured his name and laid her palm flat on the wooden panel. I’ll come back for you later. I promise” (Rosnay 9). During this time of inequality, where the French were removing Sarah and her mother just because they were Jewish, Sarah’s brother asked her for help. Sarah promised her brother she would be back for him and helped him escape his impending arrest. Sarah’s brother believed her because he looks up to her and loves her. As the story continues, when Sarah falls ill and is in pain, she also turns to her father for comfort, “at one point she had been sick, bringing up bile, moaning in pain. She had felt her father’s hand upon her, comforting her” (Rosnay 55).
She explains to the community that the current cycle that her father and the adults created is not going to work out forever. While under the current cycle, many outsiders snuck their way inside the community and stole money and food. Not only that, the watchers noticed that the thieves carried guns. She mentions to the crowd about her recurring nightmares where she is levitating and flies toward the door of her room.
After April and Roger search desperately for Cheryl, they look for several weeks, and have no idea where she has gone. One night Cheryl’s friend Nancy calls April, and explains that she was leaving with her, but she had left suddenly and believes she is going to do something bad. April remembers that Cheryl told her how their mother committed suicide, by jumping off the Louis Bridge. When they arrive at the bridge a group of people say they saw a women jumped off and commit suicide about five minutes before they arrived.
...the the woman “without saying one word” sliding the knife back into the refrigerator. Oppenheimer uses the woman to contribute to the traumatic event that happened that night through using the woman as a symbol for the harm that was done to the woman.
The inspector arrives in the middle of a celebration of the daughter (Sheila) and her engagement to the wealthy Gerald Croft. With the minimum of questioning, the family reveals many things about themselves that links them all to the death. When the inspector leaves, the family discovers he wasn't a real police inspector at all. and are relieved (save Sheila and Eric) to find out from the infirmary, that there has been no suicide. Shortly after this, police call and tell them there has been a suicide and police inspector will be called to discuss the matter.
Therefore, she controls herself and her family to avoid the gossip. She laughs at the world around her, as she "passes" within it as a white woman and nearely raised up into a cab, admitted at the top floor of the Dayton where she stares at the people beneath, "thinking how silly they looked" (Larsen9). She laughs uncontrollably at Claire 's candidly racist husband. She is unnerved that he is criticizing her ethnic group, but her laugh is about dominance and influence. To Irene, in that split second he is and ill-bred wealthy white men. She is later lead to tears when she remembers Claire 's face in that instant, "she 'd tried a tiny laugh and was annoyed to find that it was close to tears"
Throughout the entirety of the movie, Trish Marshall (Mary Krohnert), an employee for the insurance company whose daughter, Everly, was held hostage on the bus (Gagnon). Trish kept popping into scenes and every time she was on the phone with her boss convincing him to pay the ransom (Gagnon). Because of having Trish on the phone every time she appeared, it made it obvious that the ransom was eventually going to come from the insurance company. The genre of this movie is a thriller; however, it did not feel much like a thriller having been so predictable. The only thrill that I got from the movie was in the first half-hour of watching this ninety-one minute long movie. During those first thirty minutes, half of it shows a bride who is about the jump off a building because her husband said the wrong name at the altar. For the most part, once Calum kidnaps the students and drives the bus into the warehouse, the thrill is