Mysterious Mist

Rating: 6/10 (19 February 2020)

Some movies just take a cinematic toll on one's heart and one is bound to assert the cohesiveness of one's senses or they will flee away into an untimely disruption and would present a drop of total chaos. The mystery, embroidered into the details of the movie, summiting finally into some undue breakthrough either in the end or when the credits fall over; is an exhilarating treat for some. It is just uplifting to the senses and it takes one to a level of visual ecstasy. The Usual Suspects is such a movie which actually takes one's senses to get embroiled into the dynamic of evolving twists and convolutions in the play-up and in that one is taken to a heightened spirit. The mystery doesn't know where to end; and the twists and turns only rack up the confusion to an extent, that one is pushed to retort in a hush manner; where is this movie leading us! The movie has a man reminiscing about events and in that he takes to different visualizations, that make up the most of the movie. This 1995 flick, deriving its name from the Spy magazine, is something to watch, and the scenes which epitomize the climax of it; are the ones at the very first and the ones leading to the credits. Another actor that holds my eyeballs for his role as a duty-strict cop is Chazz Palminteri. The movie follows a man recounting a criminal experience that played in the past involving five men; all having diverse criminal affiliations and pulling out gimmicks for themselves. We have him detailing about a police line-up, several hand-shakes with criminal scenarios and the conclusive blast on the pier killing 27 men in the fire. The film follows an overt mystery line anchoring it throughout the film. You are banged by a smooth-and-slow start without any head-boggling twists but as the movie heads halfway through, gimmicks know no end until the last minute. The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled was to convince the world that he didn't exist is such a great line that you are pushed to listen to it on a constant loop and indulge into its precisely-phrased syntax. This line is referred to Keyser Soze who doesn't seem to fit in any physicality and is shown to be mysterious as hell and what to really punch in, when the one who pitches this line, turns out to be the one , thus indicated. The movie turns into twists and turns at every other moment; the mystery hidden never gets subsided. Events are described in a manner that doesn't really erupt any unfamiliarity to what turns out, but as the movie progresses to the latter half; one could see slight slants towards what the mystery is all about and all of what's suspicious and totally above-the-perception, seems to clear off. It's not very much of a chord-striker but it really pushes you into an upsurge; when we have Verbal Kint playing out what he actually is: Keyser Soze. The mystery wrapped around this not-so-visible character and the visualization that ensues throughout the movie and terrifying flashes of this man, make it up for a desperate catch for those who have been watching it from the very start. Keyser Soze is that symbolic character which, I believe, has been dexterously carved out that one only seems to be struck with suspicion and that is highly commendable as per making up an elusive character. The movie is mysteriously put and continues to stroke your brainy cells for a ride of cinematic spiral. It's so enclosed into the maze of mysteries, that we are not able to decipher a bit out of it until halfway or more. It can pose up to you as completely irrational on many sequences: but with a binge-watch extending up to 2 to 3 screenings, I believe it would surely unfurl some of its mysteries.