The main plot of the true crime story of the movie "The Usual Suspects" is that the seemingly harmless protagonist is not interested in the entire case. The audience was confused by his cowardly appearance and followed the story he told to understand and judge. In fact, what he created was just a dream that was difficult to distinguish between true and false. The plot seems to be that of a cruel and cunning corrupt police officer working with four suspects.
Carry out a series of crimes, and eventually kill and release these accomplices, in order to hide the truth and get away with it. The actual outcome is that the male protagonist is the manipulator behind the scenes, and most of the criminal facts are basically true. However, the key events and characters in this case were all pieced together by the male protagonist through temporary organization and local materials during the interrogation. .
To put it simply, the male protagonist plays a mafia lone ranger who accidentally gets involved in a small case and ends up meeting four unlucky guys. The police did not find out the identity of the male protagonist. The male protagonist came up with the idea of ??killing with a borrowed knife. He gathered a few people secretly and overtly, and first practiced carjacking and stealing diamonds. The next step was to kill the informant who knew his true identity with the real purpose.
So, in order to further control the team, the male protagonist arranged a failed robbery and successfully aroused the gang's anger against the Hungarian "counterparts". Through the so-called lawyer Kobayashi, he impressed the gang on his real target. And conveniently killed the gang and informants. But he was captured during the operation. In order to get information from the police on the suspected Hungarian witness.
At the same time, in order to regain his freedom, the male protagonist used his genius lies and clever logic to tell a story to the policeman who had already had a preconceived idea in his mind, and successfully escaped. Why were the audience and the police led by the protagonist played by Kevin Spacey from beginning to end, and walked out of the police station in a swagger. Because the male protagonist has enough information first.
And soon realized that the police knew very little about him and took the case too much for granted. In addition, he tried hard to be inconspicuous and strong on the spot, as well as good shit luck. The reason why I think the film is obscure is mainly because the story told by the male protagonist is so seamless that many clues would be completely ignored without even reviewing it a few times.
In addition, the nominal "Mr. Kettle", who is actually a watertight male protagonist, is working hard to bring out the emotional rhythm and make the audience nervous and excited to follow his rhythm, which makes it even harder to be discovered. In fact, some real plots have revealed that the male protagonist is Caesar, for example, the left hand used by the person who killed the guy in the opening film.
If you pay attention, although the male protagonist tried his best to restrain himself during the interrogation, he inadvertently used his left hand to help open the lid of the lighter, including when he was finally let go and lit the cigarette with his left hand.
"The Usual Suspects" is written by Christopher McQuarrie, directed by Bryan Singer, and stars Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne and Stephen Baldwin. An American neo-noir film. The film focuses on Roger Gent, a con man nicknamed "Verbal", who is interviewed by the police.
Gent told his interrogating U.S. Customs agent David Cuoco a convoluted story that explained what happened to a cargo ship docked in the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro Bay, California. Explosion accident. The film was released in the United States on August 16, 1995, and won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1996.
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A cargo ship exploded in the Port of San Pedro, California, USA, killing 27 people and missing $90 million. After the accident, FBI agent Jack Bell was waiting for a comatose survivor, a Hungarian criminal, in the hospital; Customs Special Agent David Cuoco was waiting for Roger, another survivor who had received an amnesty order. Gent conducted the interrogation.
Ginter admitted that six of the six people killed in the accident were Dean Keaton, Fred Fenster, Michael McManus and Todd Hockney, as well as himself. A few months ago, he was taken to the police station as a suspect in a truck robbery and spent the night. As a result, the five people formed a criminal gang and worked together to make a lot of money. However, the good times did not last long. One day, lawyer Xiao Lin found them.
Ask them to burn the drugs on the freighter for the mysterious leader Caesar Sozer. Fred was the first to quit and was immediately killed, leaving the remaining four to accept the mission.
On the freighter, Hockney, McManus, and Keaton did not find the drugs, so they were killed by Caesar one after another. The ship was also blown up. Gent survived by luck because he stayed on the shore to take care of them.
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