The Usual Suspects - 7

This film draws in the audience into the act of storytelling and how it can both lead us to and away from truth. It is an exciting story, with new twists around every bend. This is all because there is both the story that the filmmakers are telling and the main character, Verbal Kent, is telling in sort of a flashback sequences. I think that most important question this film asks is: how does one accept or reject truth claims that others make? This film shows that each of us has a story that we willing to hear, as well as stories that we think to outrageous to believe in the first place. There is always some authority/author that we will need to accept if we are going to live life well on this earth (one example is, environmental degradation). Not only is this just a good and entertaining action adventure story with a few twists, it can be watched over again (this was my third time watching this film) for new insights, and new points of conversation.