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Glass Onion, Knives Out, and The Last Jedi writer-director Rian Johnson keeps returning to a noticeable theme in his work: Characters find their history is a barrier to the future, and they have to burn it down, sometimes literally. Here’s how the theme figures in movies from The Brothers Bloom to Looper to the latest Benoit Blanc mystery.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery takes place on a private island. In reality, the movie was filmed at the Amanzoe, a luxury hotel near Porto Heli, Greece.