SPOILERS: about the ending

Rating: 6/10 (23 December 2002)

Another user wrote: "The 'twist' ending was the equivalent of
finding out that everything up until that point had been a dream."
Others wrote similar things. I don't agree. Keep in mind that Kint
testified before a grand jury, so anything that they could check had
to be true (e.g. the attack on the taxi cops, and Edie working on the
extradition case.) He couldn't lie too much and still have a
consistent story. So I believe that his story is supposed to be at
least 90% true. Kujan figured out that Kint was lying because he
saw the names that Kint read off the wall. Most of these, Kint just
used in anecdotes to build up his character. The only one that he
worked into the story was "Kobayashi." So that's one thing we can
be sure he lied about: the man who picks him up at the end is not
really named Kobayashi. We should know that anyway, because
he doesn't look Japanese at all. That's one of the few clues that
there's something wrong with Kint's story.