Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie disagreed about the ending to The Usual Suspects:
One of us believed that the story was all lies, peppered with little bits of the truth. And the other one believed it was all true, peppered with tiny, little lies. … We each thought we were making a movie that was completely different from what the other one thought.
(via Dallas Morning News)
After my first viewing I believed that Verbal was constructing the story on the fly, which is why I absolutely loved the movie. It was the eventual realization by the investigators that so many details of Verbal’s story were plucked from various objects around the room that seemed so clever to me, and implied that it was all made up. In subsequent viewings I believe that the intention of the movie was that Verbal was, in fact, telling the truth, thereby diminishing my excitement about the film.
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