Early in Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion, private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), crushed by the malaise of summer 2020, plays Among Us in the bathtub. Tonally, Glass Onion relies heavily on the feeling of burnt-out skepticism and paranoia that seems synonymous with the past three years, at heart of which is a simple question: who can you trust?. Glass Onion exploits this feeling. While Johnson’s 2019 predecessor Knives Out felt like a Hitchcock thriller inside of an Agatha Christie murder mystery set in the family Thanksgiving dinner from hell, Glass Onion’s plot seems at first to be a send-up of the vapidity of contemporary influencer culture framed through the lens of Christie’s less cozy fare, combining the closed circle of suspects plot of And Then There Were None with the exotic locale of Death on the Nile.
