#marta cabrera

[theobsessedone]

affirmations from the knives out gang ☺️

[mobius-m-mobius]

Blanc and his Watsons 🔎💕

[phoenixfatality]

the Knives Out filmmaking is fucking genius because it doesn't hide ANY of the murder mystery details that get revealed later on. The blood stain is ALWAYS on Marta's shoes. You can see Miles hand Duke his glass, take his gun and hide it. You see Blanc hand Helen the Klear. You hear the 'clangy clunk' of Jud hiding the flask in the first scene of Wicks's murder. You notice it all after it's revealed. It's not added in in the reveal scene. All of the clues are always there, you just DON'T SEE THEM. It just makes it feel so much more real.

[prickly-paprikash]

It isn't just that Knives Out protagonists win by being kind and steadfast. They win by sticking to what it is they're good at. What they've been called to do, as thankless and as demeaning as those jobs can sometimes make them feel. They didn't play the "game" like Benoit did. They just did what they knew they were good at.

Marta wins because she was a nurse and a caregiver before anything else. She wins the inheritance because she gave Harlan companionship, not just medical care. She gets the truth out of Ransom because she acted as a nurse, trying to save Fran even though she still dies in the end. Had Harlan just fucking listened to the actual medical expert in the room instead of himself, he would have lived.

Helen wins because she's a third-grade teacher—her job is literally educating, caring for, and looking out for kids. Glass Onion isn't just the working class vs the wealthy, it's an actual functioning adult woman vs a bunch of adult-sized toddlers, whining and throwing temper tantrums and thinking only of themselves. She plays games with her third graders, and in the end she wins by making a game of destroying everything Miles ever held dear, even getting the others to side with her.

Jud wins because he's an actual fucking priest, who actually embodies everything his god taught. He doesn't try to poach Wick's "flock" or anything, nor does he allow himself to surrender to anger and vindictiveness in the way Wick did. Jud is absolved of all his crimes because he just wants to do good by his church, in the name of his god.

Just as Blanc is an excellent detective, so too are these three spectacular at their jobs.

Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig just keep reiterating the same points in every film and I do love them for it.

• Respect the working class

• Fucking respect women.

• Listen to the local queer person who is excellent at their jobs and you will go far.

• Be kind in a cynical world.

[azehearts]

Knives Out Trio

The Sister | The Nurse | The Priest

aka Helen Brand, Marta Cabrera, & Father Jud...aka Benoit Blanc's little Watsons lol!!!

[lady-griffin]

I genuinely love how Benoit Blanc gives permission/encouragement to the truly good person at the end of each movie.

Benoit to Marta: Personally, I don’t think you should give a single red dime to any of the Thrombeys, but it’s your money, not mine.

Benoit to Jud: I saw no diamond. Whatever you choose to do or not do with some hypothetical diamond has nothing to do with me, because I saw nothing.

Benoit to Helen: *hands her highly combustible fuel* Burn it all down.

[helpmeimblorboing]

Going from Marta who literally threw up every time she tried to lie to Helen who was game to go to her sister’s murderer’s private island dressed as her and manages to extract motives and opportunities from everyone basically on her own, to Jud, who keeps running off to confess at basically every opportunity must have given Benoit such incredible amounts of whiplash

[susiephone]

Jud: I'm constantly haunted by the fact that I killed a man in the boxing ring, and even now that I'm trying to be the best person I can be, I still stole a diamond worth 80 million dollars to keep it from falling into the wrong hands. Helen: Yeah, I blew up an occupied house and destroyed the world's most famous painting to get revenge on the guy who murdered my sister. So I get it. Marta, hosting this board game night in her huge-ass mansion: