The Glass Onion is not so much about Elon Musk as it is about our blindness
Rian Johnson’s film purports to show in an unsubtle way how easy it is for some billionaires to make people believe they are brilliant, because the public has accepted to swallow their manipulations of reality. This article contains some spoilers.
The Glass Onion is the name of a bar, the one where the main characters of our adventure met, a decade before fame, to inspect the shots and draw plans on the comet. This “glass onion” is also the red thread of the plot of Rian Johnson’s eponymous film, which was released on Netflix on December 23, 2022.
It is an architectural work built by multi-billionaire Miles Bron in the middle of an island where the plot takes place. In the center of the glass structure overlooking his palace, he placed his large office and his racing car – even if he can’t use it on site, “it won’t leave him”.
Do lies bind only those who believe them?
The transparent onion is above all the ideal symbol of our relationship with the powerful, or rather with what they are. say. Speech is at the heart of the feature film; these will also be the first clues revealed by the detective Benoît Blanc (Daniel Craig) at the end of the film, dissecting the approximate semantics of Miles Bron while despairing at the sheer ignorance: ” This whole day is a veritable anthology of dirty expressions and factual errors! “.
There is something charming about the gift of eloquence, it gives the illusion of reality. If he dares to say it out loud, it must be true. Is it not on this principle that Donald Trump rose to the head of the most powerful country in the world in four years? That Elon Musk was able to create an image of a defender of freedom of expression, he who muzzled speech online more than two months than Twitter teams in 15 years?
Sam Bankman-Fried, in the same way, managed to convince very serious personalities to invest in his crypto platform FTX, playing well with his mark of poorly dressed little genius who could be the next Bill Gates, highly regarded in Silicon Valley. It doesn’t matter what he says, as long as there is the impression that the businessman hides a formidable intelligence behind layers of eccentricity and self-confidence.
And what about Kanye West, who has been making provocative statements for years, before turning once to anti-Semitism and finally being rejected by some brands, which have nevertheless been enriched by his excesses?
” He was in front of me from the beginning “, Benoît Blanc complained several times.
” The film is not very subtle »
Some of the billionaires we’ve brought to the top of the world are glass onions, Rian Johnson told us: they stand as monuments to sanity, assuring us that their brains work differently, faster, more complex, and we nod. . ” The film is not very subtle, it talks about big lies and the power structures where people who want to preserve their interests reinforce these big lies. “, entrusted the director to the World.
Does he plan to caricature Elon Musk in particular? ” It was a terrible accident! “, he exclaimed in the Wired columns. “ This is not about any particular billionaire “, he added to the World. The feature film, written and shot between 2020 and 2021, could not really be inspired by the escapades of the new Twitter boss, who was discouraged with every new tweet he sent from at the beginning of 2022. But Rian Johnson is well aware of the parallels [Le film] is really relevant today, it’s weird “, he admitted.
Glass onion is one of those movies that gets the season right, with the best tone. By way of Don’t Look Up, which was released almost during the day last year on Netflix, It is not a work that breaks form, but an effective fable that conveys an idea in more than two hours. What are we going to do here?
The Glass Onion is available on Netflix starting December 23, 2022
