10 Unanswered Questions From Famous Movies That Are Still Killing Us
2. How Much Of Verbal Kint's Story Was True? - The Usual Suspects
There have been some truly outstanding twists throughout the history of film, one of the most famous being the fact that Kevin Spacey was Keyser Söze all along in The Usual Suspects. The movie ends with this bombshell of a reveal, throwing everything seen over the previous two hours into question.
Almost the entire series of events throughout the story is told through the lens of Keyser Söze, at that time posing as Verbal Kint. While being interrogated by Agent Kujan (Chazz Palminteri), Kint tells the story of Keyser Söze which at first the audience has no reason not to believe. That changes before the credits roll, however.
Knowing that the story is being told by Söze himself, he becomes an unreliable narrator. He could be telling Kujan absolutely anything to get himself out of being caught, and has no reason to tell the truth. The entire story about the mission to kill the one man who had seen his face could be full of lies, but was there any facet of truth to his story at all?
The fact that he pulls parts of his tale from the noticeboard in the police station suggests that a large part of it is untrue, but there's no guarantee to what degree. Maybe he did have a right-hand man in the form of Pete Postlethwaite, since the actor does pick him up from the station at the end of the movie, but maybe the name Kobayashi was all that was taken from the notice board. Or, perhaps every single word of it was a lie. There is just no way of knowing.