The ending to Bryan Singer's fantastic thriller The Usual Suspects is a real doozy: after spending a good portion of the movie questioning Kevin Spacey's Verbal Kint, Chazz Palminteri's Special Agent Kujan comes to the startling realisation of Keyser Soze's identity. The real criminal mastermind has been sitting in front of him the entire time, making up a convoluted story by using the noticeboard in the room to come up with names and events. Soze makes his escape and Kujan soon exits to pursue him, but it's too late: Soze stops faking his limp and drives off into the sunset seconds before Kujan makes it outside. As Kujan looks around, Kint's quote from earlier in the movie repeats, "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." We cut back to a clip from Kint earlier, as he says, "And like that, he's gone", and we cut to black. What an ending, and a brilliant juxtaposition of a previous clip in the movie with the new information we've learned, completely altering the tone and meaning of the words. Unsurprisingly, the movie won Oscars for Spacey's performance and its screenplay. Soze may have been a brutal criminal genius, but we can't help but love him for tricking not just the cops, but audiences the world over as well.
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