Knives Out: Sharpest Writing of 2019?
Knives Out doesn’t just defy the whodunit narrative, it uses the weaknesses to its advantage. It’s well aware of the genre’s faults and tropes

Chinta, who has always failed in matters of the heart, is given a magical diary by a mysterious woman to write down the love story of her dreams. The dreams that Chinta writes come true with the arrival of Ben, but things do not go as smoothly as expected. Various strange occurrences happen every time she goes through each chapter of the love story. Chinta's obsession with the diary ultimately leads to greater disappointment when she discovers that Ben is engaged to someone who also possesses the same diary as Chinta.
Knives Out doesn’t just defy the whodunit narrative, it uses the weaknesses to its advantage. It’s well aware of the genre’s faults and tropes
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