2. The Usual Suspects
Kevin Spacey fooled us all in the 1995 crime thriller The Usual Suspects. In the opening scene, we are introduced to an elusive man later known as Keyser Soze who shoots a wounded man and then sets fire to the docks where this murder took place. The movie revolves around the interrogations of five suspects, who may be involved in the murder from the first scene.
As the story unravels, many theories are presented, but the story told by Spacey’s character Roger “Verbal” Kint is most convincing. Spacey’s dialogue in the film is well written and manipulative, thus bringing us to the twist. “Verbal” Kint turns out to be the killer; not only did he fake his identity but he also faked his famous limp as well.
In the end scene, when Spacey walks out of the police station scot-free and transitions from a limp to a normal walk, viewers found themselves grinning to the realization of Verbal’s trickery, spawning one of cinema’s favorite antiheroes.
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