akisamekoetsuji t1_j27vb7n wrote on December 30, 2022 at 7:18 AM

Reply to comment by ifisch in Question about The Glass Onion (spoilers) by polywha

I digress, but I feel like the inherit trait of mysteries and big-reveal stories is that after the build up, if done correctly, we always expect something we couldn't possible imagine but that is never a case or ,I doubt, even a possibility.

I love mysteries but endings almost never live up to the expectations. iono..

speak-eze t1_j27yzcl wrote on December 30, 2022 at 8:04 AM

I think it's the opposite - that any of them were a viable possibility. I feel like for whodunnit movies, most viewers don't want some big "out of left field" twist to be the answer. They are given multiple possibilities that all makes sense along the way, and you just don't know which one it is.

If you are given all those options throughout the movie, and then none of them are the answer and its something else entirely, that would make the rest of the movie seem completely pointless imo.