who says the movie is a lie?

Rating: Null/10 (8 November 2007)

I take issue with the people who say the whole movie cheats and is a lie. ALL movies cheat. That is why they are fiction. They are stories. Actors are acting. They are paid to lie essentially. And the best of them make you believe that they are telling the truth. If you want truth go see a documentary. That is what Roger Ebert said. Even movies that are supposedly based on true stories are still dramatizations. They are the vision of the director and the writer. They take liberties with the actual history out of dramatic necessity. And the sets and costumes are recreations of reality. So before people say that the movie doesn't play fair does any movie play totally fair with it's audience? They manipulate reality to tell their story. In fact the greatness of the film is the complexity of it. One user commented that all the suspects were dead except verbal. But Fenster wasn't killed on the boat. Was he really killed? Did he actually exist? Also what if Keyser Soze was actually 2 people Spacey and Pete Posthelwaite. That would explain why the Hungarian in the hospital saw his hair when he was wearing a hat. Spacey could have been a hit-man for Soze. In fact maybe the fax at the end was a deception. Was that Soze? The Hungarian thought it was but what if that is what the spacey character wanted him to think. Finally as to the comment that verbal was dumb to let himself get caught I say he was the smartest person in the movie.He liked toying with Agent Kujan and knew he could slip out from under his nose. Just to prove his superiority. Much like Hannibal Lecter in "The silence of the lambs"So the films strength lies in it's complexity. And multiple viewings make it more enjoyable.