Monday, February 14, 2011

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The Usual Suspect is one of the best movies in the world! To me at lease. I saw that movie when I was young and fall in LOVE with it. This movie can be found under the neo-noir. Film noir can be describe as "crime-infested, shadow-draped, black-and-white movies" as the article The Neo-Noir 90's describe it. Even thought this movie is not in black-and-white, I dose have the elements of film noir in it or neo-noir which mean new modern noir (color). 

The Usual Suspect starts off with police looking into a crime that happen on a boat the exploded on a pier in San Pedro. The police discover 27 bodies and money ($91 million) on the boat. Five man were arrested in New York and brought to the station together for questioning. These five man are pros in their crimes and they all agree to work together on a job that pays well. They all worked for a mystery guy, legendary mastermind criminal name Kaiser Söze. One of the elements of noir, mystery. The unknown is what made this film so enjoyable to watch. 

Later in the movie it becomes obvious that the five man did Söze wrong and now Söze wants revenge. Another element in noir, vengeance. The suspicion increase all through the movie as five man begins to turn on each other for continued existence. 

Of course there are only two people who survive massacre and fire on a ship docked, Verbal Kint, a crippled con man and a cruelly burned Hungarian terrorist. And of course Kaiser Söze. Knit, the only one that can talk, narratives the story throughout the movie, which is classic in a noir film. The movie itself is flashbacks and makes believe by Knit. 
Narratives are frequently complex and convoluted, typically told with flashbacks, which this movie has both.


Even though this movie dose not have a femme fatale or is in black-in-white, its still the best Noir movie! There is lot of action and doomy and dangerous sense. The love that face hat this movie has a weird but great ending, something that was not expected, a nice twist at the end! The movie itself well keeps you on your toes asking one question throughout the entire movie- who is Kaiser Söze?


 Hint Hint*** go rent/buy/see this movie! you will LOVE it!<3

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