Later, it appears that she killed Harlan after accidentally mixing up his medications and giving him a lethal dose of morphine. When audiences first meet her, she seems like a shaken bystander. As Knives Out unravels the mystery of Harlan’s death, Marta’s role is constantly in flux.
Played with ingenuity and verve by Ana de Armas, Marta is introduced as the quiet, hardworking daughter of an undocumented woman (Marlene Forte).The surviving Thrombeys most often regard her with curiosity and a dose of pity, their sentiments bolstered only slightly by the fact that they knew Harlan had been tremendously fond of her. In these compromised positions, the stacked ensemble shines the Thrombeys snivel, scoff, and lie shamelessly.Īmid the family’s attempts to distract from their own culpability, though, an unexpected star emerges: Harlan’s young Latina nurse, Marta Cabrera. Walt (Michael Shannon), Harlan’s only living son, wanted to run his father’s publishing company, but the proprietor had deemed him unworthy. Joni (Toni Collette), the widow of Harlan’s son, had been extorting her father-in-law before his death. The couple’s son, Ransom (Chris Evans), resented Harlan’s decision to cut him off from the family funds. Harlan’s eldest daughter, Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis), and her no-good husband, Richard (Don Johnson), were jockeying for control of the family fortune, and the latter was furious with the deceased for confronting him about his infidelity. Even in their grief, the melodramatic Thrombeys make easy villains, and Knives Out gradually reveals everyone’s potential motives. So begins Johnson’s intricate murder mystery, a thrilling puzzle in which nearly everyone is a suspect. But when Benoit Blanc, a mysterious private detective (Daniel Craig), arrives to investigate, Harlan’s loved ones assume that the octogenarian, eccentric and exacting in life, has left them a final challenge: unearthing the details of his suspicious demise. Though his throat was slit, law enforcement quickly rules Harlan Thrombey’s death a suicide. In the film’s opening moments, an elderly patriarch (played by Christopher Plummer) is found dead in his study. This story contains spoilers for Knives Out.Ī thick cloud of guilt looms over the unconscionably wealthy family at the center of Knives Out, the spirited new whodunit from the writer-director Rian Johnson.
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