There are good thrillers. It is also a very good thriller. But there are also the crème de la crème of thrillers, films that border on perfection and can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
If you ask me to name two, so very quickly, you can name seven and the usual suspects. Good news: Arte is releasing the latter this Monday night, just to kick off the week in style.
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Released in theaters in 1995, The Usual Suspects (which has a surprising ending, beware of SPOILERS!), tells the story of five criminals who find themselves in police custody after a mysterious tip-off. Later, five men unexpectedly hired by the criminally minded Kaiser Soze get caught up in a diabolical scheme…
We won’t tell you much about the content The usual suspects So, it is absolutely necessary to be excited from minute to minute to discover the secrets of this brilliant thriller with a Machiavellian script.
But just know that you’re in luck if you’re going to see the film for the first time, because its inventiveness, intelligence and interpretation put it in the category of masterpieces of the genre. AlloCiné viewers were right when they gave it a very flattering average score of 4.4 out of 5!
Police inspectors are challenged by the script!
Before becoming a screenwriter The usual suspectsAmerican Christopher McQuarrie (now leading the Mission: Impossible saga) was a member of the detective agency for four years. An experience he used to come up with a diabolical screenplay for Bryan Singer’s thriller.
proof of that The usual suspects, winner of two Oscars (Best Supporting Actor for Kevin Spacey and Best Screenplay) is not a thriller like any other? In the United States, the film was shown to some police inspectors to test their insight!
What if you too tried to explore this classic of the seventh art?
Tonight at Arte at 20:55.
Ahmed Silla’s favorite movie scene is a scene from The Usual Suspects:
Source: Allocine
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