God, I just saw an interview and found out that Brian and the others used Kevin as the character (writing something with him in mind, I don't know how to translate it more smoothly) to write TUS's script because they watched him play Wiseguy! I've seen both of these things, but I didn't expect them to be related
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I feel like I'm the kind of person who gets carried away by a movie. I've watched it three times and I still haven't seen many details. I didn't even notice that Keyser is left-handed, and the echoes of the gold lighter and the gold watch... I is mentally retarded ()
After reading more than ten film reviews, many details have been added. For example, Verbal Kint is similar to Verbal King, which is "the king of words", Keyser is similar to the emperor Kaiser in German, Soze means "oral" in Turkish, and Keyser Again German and Turkish. This is really interesting. But I feel that almost no plot analysis is completely in line with my own understanding of the film, so in order to help myself understand the truth of the plot, I hereby organize a version of the plot from my own perception.
In fact, the incident cannot be 100% restored, because some parts are only narrated by Keyser, and there is no way to verify the facts. For example, there is no such person as Redfoot. The director also said in the interview, "Keyser Soze's sketches were seen with his own eyes, so it's certain for me, but everything else is debatable."
But it is certain that Keyser will not lie about things that the police will know, otherwise it will be easy to find out. For example, before the identification six weeks ago, Detective Kujan led someone to take Keaton away. At that time, Keaton was having dinner with Edie, a female lawyer and two investors, so the relationship between Keaton and Edie was the result of Detective Kujan’s own eyes. See, so it must be true, there is no possibility that "Keaton and the female lawyer are actually not related, just made up by Keyser".
Next, I will open the perspective of God and take a look at what things might actually look like:
Keyser's business rivals are ready to pay big bucks for someone who can identify Keyser and know all of his business to bring him down, and the deal is on the boat. Keyser was informed of this. He is cautious, and he is relieved to personally deal with the only informer who can identify him, and he cannot deal with a dozen or 20 people on a ship alone, and needs help or cover. The normal logic is to arrange for his subordinates to be with him, but as I said earlier, Keyser is cautious and believes that if a person does not rely on others, he will not be betrayed by others, so there are few long-term subordinates. So he needed to find a few more capable people on board to cover his actions, and he chose the four who had unknowingly harmed his interests.
Keyser used the connections in the police station to arrange the identification, bringing the four together, and he himself appeared in the identification as Verbal. The identity of Verbal should really exist, because he has been interrogated and has a criminal record. Of the four, only Keaton knew Verbal. As for who came up with the idea of attacking the "most reliable taxi service", Keaton was first ruled out, and then Keyser changed his mind and said that Keaton should have said it in order to push the identity of Keyser onto him. It's hard to say whether it was McManus or Verbal, but even if it was McManus who brought it up during the detention, the impetus behind it must be Keyser. Maybe he let someone tell McManus this live news and take the bait. As Verbal's "little person", it seems unlikely that he has heard of such a deep thing. If Keaton is brought up by him, he should be suspicious, so I still tend to be McManus.
Keaton didn't want to be involved at first, but Keyser needed his participation, so he came to persuade him personally. Why did Keaton not want to participate? Possibly one, he didn't want to go because the five criminals were arranged together when the identification was made. Possibly two, he really gave up and didn't want to be involved in these things that would affect his business and ordinary life. I'm leaning towards the latter, because if he doesn't want to go because he thinks there is a problem, Verbal begs him with soft words and hooks him with money, he should be more skeptical and more afraid to go. And the latter involves another matter, is Keaton sincere to Edie? I tend to be, and the reasons will come later.
The criminal process should be what Keyser said, because there is evidence, the police can also find out. After that, they went to Los Angeles, California, to sell the stolen goods, and they should have gone, because the jeweler Saul they killed next died in Los Angeles, and the police should also have a record. But does Redfoot just have a fake name, or is there really no such person at all? If we want to connect a series of things before and after, I think there should still be a middleman who McManus knows and can trade with confidence.
They were put together, and then seeing Kobayashi should have really happened (although Kobayashi definitely didn't call him that name). I think Fenster should have tried to escape and was killed, otherwise as planned he would have joined the action and died on the boat, which he didn't. Kujan's cold-blooded impression of Keaton is based on reality, not groundless. He should really be a ruthless character who won't give in easily. Faced with the threat of "evidence to the police that you killed people" and the threat of running away companions, his reaction It's because I don't believe in the existence of Keyser, I don't want to be manipulated to work for others, but I want to kill Kobayashi to solve the problem. I feel that this kind of reaction is in line with character. And what makes him unable to be rigid and can only be manipulated is his weakness, that is, the safety of the lover he really cares about. So I think he might be genuine with Edie. By the way, Kobayashi did call Edie to Los Angeles to extradite the whistleblower, because everything about the flight ticket can be found.
When he was about to attack the ship, did Keaton take care of Verbal so that he wouldn't take part in the operation and run away with money when he saw that the momentum was not right? Hard to say. But Fenster couldn't escape, and Verbal, a cripple, should not be able to escape. It seemed unrealistic to make such an arrangement. So I'm leaning that he's also been assigned a mission, maybe not to get on the ship first, with Hockney, the demolition specialist.
After Hockney completed his explosive cover, Keyser stopped playing Verbal and found an opportunity to kill him. With Keaton and McManus on the way, it was very easy for Keyser to get on board. He killed the whistleblower, killed everyone else on the boat (there were no survivors at the time), and set the boat on fire.
However, in fact, many links in the restoration of the part described by Keyser are interdependent, so it is not impossible that a large part of them did not happen, and there will be other explanations in that case. For example, Keaton was not so sincere to Edie. In the end, Kobayashi didn't take care of Edie's safety, but because the security around Kobayashi was very strict and he couldn't move Kobayashi, or he didn't have the idea of being tough, and was killed by Fenster and himself. The identity experience that came out is intimidating, and it is also possible. All in all, there is no standard answer, and our audience has a lot of room for imagination.
If you pay attention, you can find that the police siren approached in the middle of the carnage on the ship, and the script wrote that the police car almost arrived at the scene when the flames rose on the deck. So it is reasonable to speculate that Keyser may not have had time to escape, otherwise he would have no reason to send himself to the police. In other words, he was caught by mistake, which is consistent with Keyser's "take a long breath" response after the script's hearing.
When I swiped, I felt that Keyser had no plans, everything was under his control, but after swiping and swiping again, I found out that it wasn't. In the process of dealing with Kujan, aside from the superficial performance, his heart was not calm all the way. For example, when Kujan learned of Keyser's existence, he came in and asked him who Keyser Soze was. He thumped the table and cursed "Oh, fuck!" That look and action were not what Verbal should have, but the irritability that the plan was disrupted. And 1:30:04, with that frowning and thoughtful expression, it can be seen that dealing with the detective is not so easy. Another example is 1:30:30, when he wanted to stand up, Kujan pushed him to the ground, approached and questioned him again and again.
I don't think it was in Keyser's plan to "make the police think Keaton is Keyser Soze" in the first place. This may be the result of Keyser's reaction to Kujan's preconceived suspicions about Keaton. He didn't actually want to mention Keyser, because there were survivors on the ship, revealing the existence of Keyser, and being questioned by Agent Kujan, he was forced to expand and say more. And he shouldn't have known in advance that there were survivors on board, otherwise he wouldn't have reacted that much when Kujan came in and asked him who was Keyser Soze.
From the conversation between Detective Kujan and Labin at the beginning of the movie, it can be seen that Keyser can refuse to talk to Kujan, so why didn't he refuse? From his attitude at the very beginning of their conversation - ragging with information he saw on the wall, saying weird things, "I like cops" (I read this and laughing), constantly interrupting Kujan's speech, deliberately Asking Kujan to help him pick up a lighter and light a cigarette, etc., it can be seen that he should have had the mentality of wanting to tease the police and play with the police. At 00:41:57, he was still having fun listening to the detective's serious analysis. It's just that after the narration of the survivors came over, the detective was closer to the truth, so he was not so relaxed and had to deal with it seriously.
Of course, in the end, he was very successful. The sentence "Fucking cops" before leaving should not only be a performance set by the Verbal people, but also revealing the truth - he is really annoying the police.
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