I love twist endings. I love having my expectations for a film twisted in on themselves to reveal unseen truths about the characters and their previous actions. However, a twist ending is only good when the viewer is not expecting it.
Take for instance Frank Darabont's 1994 prison drama "The Shawshank Redemption". During its finale, the warden (and the viewer) discover that Andy (Tim Robbins) has not only escaped but that he had been digging a tunnel to get out for over twenty years, during which the film takes place. When I first saw the film, I had no idea that this would happen. Andy seemed very indifferent, spending his time reading books and making a chess set out of rocks from the prison courtyard. What he did and who he talked to seemed of no consequence. However, on repeat viewing I noticed how every word he said, everywhere he went, was to get himself closer to his goal: freedom. That's what is so wonderful about twists. They make viewing a movie for the second time even more enjoyable than the first.
Not all twist ending work out as planned. This is the case in "Wanted", a blood-laced and adrenaline-induced comic book adaptation with James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman. Despite director Timur Bekmambetov's attempts to surprise the audience with McAvoy's sudden revalation that the man he was hired to kill is, this twist never took me. It seemed to me that in an already convulted plot, this twist seemed too routine to make an impact.
5 comments:
I agree with you Wanted did not have a twist ending!I saw that ending coming a mile away! But i did like the ending!!
I also like twist endings! They make movies more fun and interesting to watch!
Good, but you forgot to mention the King of Twist Endings, Mr. M. Night Shamalyan.
The Sixth Sense has the biggest twist ending ever, and its a movie I love having people see for the first time because of their faces at the ending.
However, it was a good post, and good job!
I love movies with twist endings. I agree with kt flem, they really do make the movie much more interesting, but only if no one sees the ending coming. Personally, i loved The Prestige because of how the whole thing ended up, but i know a lot of people who didnt like it. The twist that it threw in at the end, or i guess the 2 main twists, really got me and i was thrilled to be tricked. The second time around with that movie was just as good if not better because i could see, just like you said, all the things that the protagonists did to set us up unknowingly for a big twist at the end.
This movie you speak of sounds intriguing. The idea of a movie being unpredictable is awesome, especially since there aren't many unpredictable movies these days... Although, it sounds bloody so I'm not sure I will watch it.
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