Reasons why the Benoit Blanc movies work so well
They are about women of color with everyday jobs (nurse, teacher)
These women are treated terribly by rich assholes in completely pedestrian and everyday ways that women of color with everyday jobs are treated in real life
These women get extremely cathartic justice in the end
The movie does not star Benoit Blanc, he is merely the driving vehicle for the mystery
He is barely a character, he is a plot device.
All we learn about Benoit Blanc in the first movie is:
He was so famous he was on magazines
Literally everyone knows who he is because of previous mysteries he has solved
These previous mysteries are not explained or even given any details, all we know is that they happened and he got famous for them
He has a Southern accent that continually shifts back and forth across the Delta
This is neither explained nor commented on
All we learn about Benoit Blanc in the second movie is:
He lives with a partner (marital status unknown) who is
C: Trying to learn how to make sourdough starter in the pandemic
He plays Among Us with celebrities
He is very bad at mystery games such as Among Us and Clue
That’s it. That’s all we learn about him.
This is fantastic because these new details provide zero additional context to the unexplained force of nature that is Benoit Blanc, he just strolls into someone else’s movie, tells them they are good people, and gives them closure against rich assholes.
It is not Benoit Blanc’s movie. It is a movie with Benoit Blanc in.
The movies are mysteries with lots of twists and turns but they never make the audience feel stupid. This is because
All of the twists are foreshadowed by scenery details, camera angles, and other things deliberately left in the shot.
This rewards both the keen-eyed and the additional rewatchers
All of these twists are extremely well hidden on the first viewing
This rewards those who enjoy trying to work it out and enjoying them as they come
The correct reaction to guessing twists before they happen is that they were very well foreshadowed, not that the writers weren’t good enough at tricking the viewers, like some writers who put in twists that are completely out of left field and unsupported by the previous text because they don’t want their audience to guess.
Ben Shapiro didn’t understand the second one, which is just a nice bonus.
The fucking. Cameos. Are delightful, not hackneyed.
The fucking cinnamon tography.
Every camera angle is a masterpiece. Every still frame is a painting.
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