A Glass Onion thought (spoils)
Posted by
TWuG
Dec 24 '22, 13:13
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I haven't seen it posed here and haven't looked elsewhere to see if this is a theory.
I think it is possible to read the Helen/Andi thing as Andi posing as Helen and Helen was who Miles killed.
The final frame focusing on who we believe is Helen seems very Andiesque. Helen also seems to know a lot of specifics of interactions (you couldn't look me in the eye!) that can be explained by the journals, but we never see the journal contents, so we have only her word of what's in them.
We do see "Helen" writing, so I'll rewatch to see if the handwriting of her Clue notes match the handwriting of the napkin.
The opening of the box scene can be read as Andi being tired of Miles's games so she just gets to the heart of the matter by smashing it open which is reflected in how she gets the Disruptors to turn on Miles by smashing his sculptures and destroying his commune.
It can explain why Blanc isn't the actual cause of Miles's downfall. He knew that Andi was using him by pretending to be Helen, felt it would be a good distraction from his boredom, thought Andi's cause was just, but knew he could only aid her so far, that the finale had to be on her.
The only missing piece is how/why Andi put Helen in her place for Miles to kill her. There may be some text/subtext that sets that up, but if there is, I missed it over the first watch.
One of the things I absolutely *loved* was how Johnson framed shots to hide Helen's presence until we get the scene from another angle. Birdie's hat hiding her at the pool, Duke eclipsing her as he watches Whiskey with Miles.
And the camera tracks in the living room as glass sculptures distort the various characters as the camera passes by them. The bit where Miles's face was framed by the wire of one of the chairs was also lovely. A beautiful film.
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