SPOLER ALERT, If you haven't seen this one, don't read from here on down.
I'm sure my friends who claimed that it was the most unpredictable ending ever in a film will think Im being sarcastic when I claim that Verbal was my first guess for Keyser Soze. I thought that it would be a good twist if that were the case, but later into the movie I started to second guess myself. After all, from what I had heard, this film didn't just have a good twist, it had a amazingly unlikely twist. So then I started to focus heavily on the possibility that it could actually be special agent Kujan. Silly me. Another reason for the shift away from Verbal is because I figured it would be a little unbalanced if one of the ensemble were chosen as Soze.
Anyway, I don't know how I figured the movie could rationalize agent Kujan being the villain. I didn't think that far ahead, but by my standards, that would have been the amazing twist. Verbal was a good one, but simply by the fact that he is crippled is enough to make him the most likely candidate for a "good twist," and therefore the most likely one.
One thing that crossed my mind is that when the movie came out there may not have been a thriller so daring. There are plenty of movies that have been made since that have influences from this one. Perhaps I was unknowingly jaded by the movies that have drawn heavily from this one, such as Swordfish.
I'm sure my friends who claimed that it was the most unpredictable ending ever in a film will think Im being sarcastic when I claim that Verbal was my first guess for Keyser Soze. I thought that it would be a good twist if that were the case, but later into the movie I started to second guess myself. After all, from what I had heard, this film didn't just have a good twist, it had a amazingly unlikely twist. So then I started to focus heavily on the possibility that it could actually be special agent Kujan. Silly me. Another reason for the shift away from Verbal is because I figured it would be a little unbalanced if one of the ensemble were chosen as Soze.
Anyway, I don't know how I figured the movie could rationalize agent Kujan being the villain. I didn't think that far ahead, but by my standards, that would have been the amazing twist. Verbal was a good one, but simply by the fact that he is crippled is enough to make him the most likely candidate for a "good twist," and therefore the most likely one.
One thing that crossed my mind is that when the movie came out there may not have been a thriller so daring. There are plenty of movies that have been made since that have influences from this one. Perhaps I was unknowingly jaded by the movies that have drawn heavily from this one, such as Swordfish.
