Grace selects the one cursed card, Hide and Seek, that hasn’t been chosen in over 30 years…since Alex was a child. The playing of a random game to welcome the new member of the family. Immediately after the wedding, the family assembles for a Le Domas tradition. Why would she do this? Well, she was a foster child, and moved from home to home throughout her childhood. But it is his fiancee Grace (played by Samara Weaving, from Three Billboards) who has asked Alex (played by Mark O’Brien, who was brilliant in Halt and Catch Fire, and also Arrival) to go back home to have their wedding. Now, jump some 30 years later, and we learn that Alex has made the right choice, and fled the family for years and years. The children, Alex and Daniel, witness the killing of their uncle Charles, on the wedding day of their aunt Helene. Ready or Not Movie Detailed Explanatory WalkthroughĪs the movie starts – it introduces the audience to the non-standard origin story of the Le Domas family. So let’s get into it shall we – because this will be a fun one to talk about. But be careful, one I would recommend to my grandmother, the other I will only selectively recommend to even my most hardened and jaundiced of friends. The former is an Agatha Christie classic, and the latter is an irreverent, postmodern hash of the standard murder mystery. Both have ingenious twists, and extremely clever backtracks. One is the actual act of murder prior to the investigation. Ready or Not is about a an insanely rich family turned inside out by an insane murder ritual that might happen. Knives Out is about a detective investigating a regal, wealthy as all get out, family turned inside out by greed and murder. And when you see the two promotional posters you’ll see why. I actually thought I was mistaking it for Knives Out at first – which I just discussed the other day, but watched in reverse order. Man, what the heck is the movie Ready Or Not all about? I had never heard of the movie before I walked into it.
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