Knives Out is a classic whodunnit. No, that's not right. Knives Out is a brilliant comedy whodunnit.
With a cast of thoroughly unlikeable characters, and a scattering of ones who are not, this riotous tale of who murdered the murder-mystery writer is a joy to watch. The actors are chewing the scenery with more gusto than a nest of termites, there are red herrings and Chekhov's guns popping up at every turn, and in the centre of it all is the victim's nurse. A young lady, still living with her kid sister and her mother and possessing a most unusual physiological response, she is the glue of the film.
Throw in a private consulting detective a la Sherlock Holmes, and a police trooper who is a fan of both the writer and the detective, and you have a bubbling cauldron of personalities that delight at every turn.
It would be not unfair to compare it with Clue and Murder By Death, my two gold standards of comedy whodunnit, and it compares very well indeed.
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WOW! An interesting experiment. Let's hope it produces.
ReplyDeleteIt should. It has been in limited trials for 3 or more years now. Interestingly that article has a different explanation for the mechanism to any I have seen previously (all previous explanations that I saw talked about providing an alternate target for the IgE antibodies).
ReplyDeleteThat 1 in 70 figure looks weird, it comes from the Coeliac Australia website and seems to come from a statement that 30% of the population caries one of the two gene's associated with Coeliac disease and 1 in 30 of them will get the disease. This they calculate to be 330,000 (math looks ok) but then they go on to say 80% currently remain undiagnosed. This smells of someone trying to fudge over a humongous difference between the calculated rate and the reported rate.
Anyone have additional info about this?
I don't know whether to say EWWWW or Cool!
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