Benoît Blanc is a private eye, not a police officer, but I think that makes him all the more at the service of the rich. What role could he play in a narrative about oppressed people trying to get back against the dominant classes? There's nothing to do for his character. He’s just painfully explaining everything we’re seeing while being rendered powerless by the narrative. More than a bending genre movie, I think Glass Onion is a story that coudn’t be.

It also helped me to understand why I didn’t quite enjoy Glass Onion. It has the same “working class vengeance” trope as Parasite but there is a detective. Realizing your main character should not be your main character is a pain. It’s happened to me more than once and the switch is never easy. For Rian Johnson, it was impossible, Benoît Blanc being the main reason Glass Onion got produced. But it would have been such a better story without the detective.

Which led me to my big revelation about Parasite, by Bong Joon-ho: it’s actually a columbo episode! We see in minute detail every moment leading to the crime itself, as in every Columbo episode. But there is no place for Columbo in a movie where poor people take on the rich. Who wants to watch the police crushing people in need for wanting what should be theirs? It’s a detective story without a detective.