My friends and I watched Knives Out during our Friendsgiving dinner, and I could not help but admire the amazing job the set decorators have done to create an intricately designed mystery house. Knives Out is a movie about the suspicious death of the famous and widely celebrated mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey. The house very much reflected the eccentric personality of Harlan Thrombey himself, and the design of the house was important for the murder plot. I liked how the closer you look at the different rooms, the more quirky things you find. While the representation was not as abstract as our Invisible Cities project, I found how the way the movie used visual symbols to translate the personality and motives of different characters was similar to how we had to visually and abstractedly interpret our cities for the project. While I might have agreed to watch this movie because I wanted to see Chris Evans in The Sweater, I thoroughly enjoyed the film because it kept me on my toes during its entire duration with the way it revealed the culprit. If murder mysteries aren’t your thing, watching it for the interesting set designs would be worth it as well.
