My wife and I got a ton of serious laughs out of this movie. It really is like an onion, with lots of layers peeled away as the laughs fly by. The layers are the jokes, whether they're displayed or spoken.

You realize as the movie goes on that it's a satire of modern social interactions as they're warped by social media and the effects on people. Through the laughs at semi-realistic, satirical displays of the people involved, you realize you know people like them or at least know of people.

By the time the end rolls around, it seems to be a typical mystery movie conclusion, like any Agatha Christie movie. The layers of laughs are mostly gone, and what remains is the ugly truth.

Human beings screw each other over. We expect an intricate, brilliant conclusion with a cunning villain, possibly with surprise twists we never saw coming, but what we get is dumb and brutally honest in its reality. And the biggest, ugliest surprise at the core of the Glass Onion is that we all know someone like the person who is the centerpiece of the conclusion, someone with a lot of appealing layers over a very ugly core.

Sure, it's disappointing, but we all get a very clear reflection of our modern society, complete with people we all know. What does that say about us? The answer is probably in the reactions you see in the reviews here.