Spoilers. Is it just a different type of twist and it’s wrong of me to expect all twists to be all-encompassing of everything?
I was recently discussing The Usual Suspects with a couple of my friends. You can have two different series of events happen to the same a set of characters and still have them go through the same arcs and maintain the same themes to the movies. Featured on Meta Thank you, Geoff. It becomes clear that each one of them has wronged Söze at some point and must pay back now. It's both carefully woven into the presentation of the film, yet it never deceives the viewer. The cops won't leave him alone, however, and as they wait for their lawyers to post bail, he is talked into doing one more job with the other four. I’ve been reading this sub for a while to learn more about film but never actually posted. Is that OK? Audiences don't want ambiguous and difficult endings that challenge them to connect images together in new ways.Let me be clear I personally have no problems with twist endings and tight plotting and misdirection. He says that Dean Keaton was actually behind the plot the whole time—Keaton was the closest thing to Keyser Söze.
How he survived, of course, is never explained. Least pleased is Keaton: a crooked cop - exposed, indicted, but now desperately trying to go straight. The movie reaches a supposed climax when Agent Kujan manipulates Kint into believing that Dean Keaton was Then with a master stroke the movie pulls a twist: Kujan looks around his office and discovers that the major details of Verbal’s confession were lifted from flyers and notes on the bulletin board as well as other objects around the room. The twist is just the icing on the cake. Kujan, meanwhile, was trying to frame Keaton as Söze, which suited Verbal just fine, since it took the pressure off him.Kujan was a Customs agent: a perfect cover for someone running a narcotics import operation, since he would have privileged access to secure areas and be expected to be seen around ports.As for the testimony of the burn victim in hospital, and the sketch of Verbal's face: we've already established that Verbal was there, and we don't know that the burned guy was actually in a position to positively identify him as Söze.But what about the lawyer, Kobayashi, who collected Kint at the end? Instead, there is a strict list system that would dictate who received his organs. Maybe Kint is a lieutenant of Keyser Söze and the watch and lighter are a present from him. I've seen audiences try to come up with plot based explanations for 2001, for The Exterminating Angel, even La La Lands easy to understand final dream sequence. Home/Summaries/ The Usual Suspects (1995) Movie Summary. All images property of their respective owners.© 2019 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. If a twist is too obvious, then the viewer will be bored by the outcome; if the twist is too far-fetched, then the viewer won't believe the end of the film. ‘The Usual Suspects’ is a film of utmost style. Nothing else can be conclusively proved. For example, in the beginning of the movie Kint tells Agent Kujan that the idea of pulling the heists post their lineup was his own. Just enough of a nod to connect back at the final revelation, not enough to make you suspect they're involved in his story. I think there's a bad stigma behind amiguous endings. The story is carefully crafted so that the twist makes sense with what you already saw. In a weird way it's like the underdog winning (even though he's clearly not the underdog).The second element is a twist but I've not really encountered many people who glorify it. I don't like when people say "nothing happened" in a movie (I hear people say this of Linklater's films a lot). The result is the attack on the cargo ship.
A few seconds later he looses his limp, flexes his supposedly paralyzed fingers, and slips into a getaway car driven by The movie’s thrust lies in the fact that it relies on the flashbacks of Verbal Kint. For example, when Agent Kujan is trying to convince Kint that Deaton was indeed The most definitive and ultimate question posed by the movie is regarding the identity of the The most popular as well as the easiest conclusion that can be drawn is that, perhaps, Verbal Kint is But this is just speculation at best: picking up whatever hints are available and assuming the easiest story possible.
The same can’t be said about movies like The Prestige and Fight Club because their twists are inherently tied to what you saw.Let’s say there isn’t any greater thread happening with the twist. Over the years, the film has attained an almost cult status in the modern cine-audience as a must watch movie. It's also a twist that encourages repeat viewing to catch all the little hints, as well as giving the film an entirely new layer of emotion and themes.I think it's interesting how you view it as a lesser twist.
Twenty years after The Usual Suspects premiered, Keyser Söze is a name that everyone knows — an ironic twist, considering that during filming, the cast had trouble even pronouncing it …