10 Movies With Crazy Foreshadowing You Totally Missed

7. Suicide Talk - In Bruges

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Certainly one of the best and most rewatchable black comedies of recent times, In Bruges tells the story of two hitman who retreat to the quaint town of Bruges, Belgium after a botched job.

It's a great movie partly because it makes use of what feels like endless foreshadowing, with most of the jokes and gags rendered hilarious because they refer back to something learned earlier on. Whilst lots of the foreshadowing in the movie is easy to spot, there's one moment on the more subtle side. That's to say, at one point in the movie Harry (Brendan Gleeson) confronts his boss Ken (Ralph Fiennes) about his partner Ray's (Colin Farrell) suicidal tendencies:

"He's suicidal. You're suicidal. I'm suicidal. Everybody's f*cking suicidal, but we don't go on about it do we?"

A seemingly normal line of dialogue (for the film), but, of course, it holds a little more truth. That's to say, by the end of the movie, Harry's words turn out to be something of an apt premonition: after all, both he and Ken end up unexpectedly killing themselves. It's only Ray - the person originally considered the most suicidal - who doesn't end up taking his own life.

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Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.