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...'re-think...(spoilers)

posted 9 years ago by harry_maskers123
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Okay, I've always been happy with the ending at face value, and having listened to the commentary thought no differently...ie verbal = soze....but I've just heard something that made me 're-think...
And at this point I should say that I don't credit screen writer's/directors with this level of thinking so think this fits conveniently more than anything else.
I've read about some people thinking Pete perpetuate is size...that didn't make much sense to me 10 mins ago...but then I just watched spacey tell palminterro that the only reason size would stick his head up would be to ' get rid of me'..plus the moment spacey is told soze' s name is when we meet postlethwaite...and I've always found it a bit uncomfortable how much spacey talks soze up, like hero worship....'you'll never catch a guy like that'....and the whole ethnicity thing of soze' s past.....
Anything it put me in mind of a disciple type situation, maybe something like the dread pirate Roberts......maybe spacey is going to take over from postlethwaite and 'become' soze....like the whole being in the police station and coming up with a story is a test/ right of passage.......

[–] dominicd 9 years ago

...maybe spacey is going to take over from postlethwaite and 'become' soze ....like the whole being in the police station and coming up with a story is a test/ right of passage

Well, first of all the movie was exhibited as a narrative in some loopy timeline, jumping off from the past, to the current, to the past and back again. I think this was key, and contrived to twist, if not confuse the audience even more. However, I must cite the beginning and where Keyser Soze urinated on the fire, which appeared gelatinous, or lumpy like snot thus ending Keaton's effort to blow up the ship himself?

In hindsight, there were some truths, a few of half-truths and handfuls of outright lies, but IMO the primary key of the plot for this tale was to keep the audience gripped and wonderin' if Keyser existed, or convincing the audience that he did. And where I must cite, the Hungarian gangster who survived the attack and who described Keyser Soze in detail -and- Verbal's quote to Kujan about the "devil." And when placed juxtaposed, or opposite, was a brilliant twist ... of course, for the likes of the real Keyser Soze.

- DominicD

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