Ugliness as a Murder Mystery Clue
A murder mystery where the only clue for the audience to determine the identity of the killer is that the killer is extremely ugly. All the evidence in the movie points a guilty finger at other characters, except that one character is really ugly and all the other suspects are much better looking.
But a savvy audience will figure it out the second they see how ugly this guy is, and won’t feel manipulated when the ugly guy with no motivation is exposed as the murderer at the end (all the educated couples will be whispering “monstrum in fronte, monstrum in animo,” to each other.)
This is certainly a thriller that rewards familiarity with Nietzche’s Twilight of the Idols.
4 years ago