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Note: This post contains spoilers for \u201cGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Media personality Ben Shapiro missed the point of \u201cGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery\u201d in a lengthy Twitter thread lodging his complaints about the story and the film’s politics, and his lukewarm takes were met with significant pushback on social media the weekend that the movie hit Netflix.<\/p>\n

\u201cGlass Onion\u201d (once again written and directed by Rian Johnson) follows clever detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who is back to solve yet another murder mystery. Tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) sends out a puzzle box to his group of friends \u2014 a politician (Kathryn Hahn), a canceled model (Kate Hudson), her assistant (Jessica Henwick), a men’s rights YouTuber (Dave Bautista), his girlfriend (Madelyn Cline), a scientist who works with Bron (Leslie Odom Jr.) and Bron’s former business partner (Janelle Mon\u00e1e) \u2014 that invites them each to his Greek island to play a murder mystery game.<\/p>\n

Bron’s friends are not only mega-rich like him, but have a massive amount of social influence and are thought to know something that others don’t. However, as the film goes on, it’s clear that rich people aren’t the greatest people nor are they smarter than anyone else. In fact, they might be a bit stupid.<\/p>\n

Though Johnson wrote this movie long before Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, \u201cGlass Onion\u201d still serves as an allegory for living in the era of Musk, Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, and for lack of a better term, dumb Silicon Valley tech bros. Unsurprisingly, Shapiro didn’t get the irony of Norton’s character, the movie’s other campy tropes, or its larger message. So, he went on a Twitter tirade<\/a> about it the morning after Christmas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe story itself is the purest form of incredible laziness,\u201d he began. \u201cIt relies on not one, not two, but three bad writing tropes: an identical twin, a comprehensive journal, and a moron of a murderer. You can write your way out of literally any scenario given an identical twin (which removes the need for linear coherence), a comprehensive journal (which explains everything) and a moron for a murder (which removes the necessity for plot logic).\u201d<\/p>\n