Fenster : Excuse me? Cop: In English. Fenster: Hand me the fucking keys, you cocksucker, whatdafa? But when Benicio Del Toro slurs, mumbles, and ensures everyone even Kevin Spacey cracks up at his effortless delivery, he steals the scene. Not often do you see such a perfect instance of profanity delightfully and charismatically expelled from multiple characters. No, no. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. Nothing quite like the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed frenzy of trying to salvage a holiday gone awry.
The seemingly simplest line is packed with more pure, unadulterated agony than any other. Ralphie: Oooh fuuudge! Parker: [stunned] What did you say? Ralphie: Uh, um…. Fuck this movie. I mean, I love it. But fuck this. A Christmas Story delivers perhaps the single greatest f-bomb that never was.
What do you expect? No, no resentment here. Sorry for all the swearing, Mom. Thanks for giving me life. Love you. I have to admit that this one ranks, in part, for sentimental reasons. The movie is twisted and decidedly weird, but this bitter expletive slinging between siblings grants it a moment of relatability.
All in all, Donnie Darko misses the mark, but at least it left us with this gem. Okay, truth be told, I have never actually seen In the Loop but my brilliantly cursing British brother-in-law highly recommended it. Fuck me? Fuck you! Fuck you and this whole city and everyone in it.
Fuck the panhandlers, grubbing for money, and smiling at me behind my back. Fuck the squeegee men dirtying up the clean windshield of my car — get a fucking job! Fuck the Sikhs and the Pakistanis bombing down the avenues in decrepit cabs, curry steaming out their pores stinking up my day. Terrorists in fucking training. Fuck the Chelsea boys with their waxed chests and pumped-up biceps.
Going down on each other in my parks and on my piers, jingling their dicks on my Channel Fuck the Korean grocers with their pyramids of overpriced fruit and their tulips and roses wrapped in plastic. Ten years in the country, still no speaky English? Fuck the Russians in Brighton Beach. Go back where you fucking came from! Fuck the black-hatted Chassidim, strolling up and down 47th street in their dirty gabardine with their dandruff. Selling South African apartheid diamonds!
Fuck the Wall Street brokers. Self-styled masters of the universe. Michael Douglas, Gordon Gekko wannabe mother fuckers, figuring out new ways to rob hard working people blind. Give me a fucking break! Fuck the Puerto Ricans. Fuck the Bensonhurst Italians with their pomaded hair, their nylon warm-up suits, their St. Overfed faces getting pulled and lifted and stretched, all taut and shiny. Fuck the uptown brothers. And then they want to turn around and blame everything on the white man. Slavery ended one hundred and thirty seven years ago.
Move the fuck on! Characters beaten, shot at close range and in the head. Gasoline poured on an occupied police car, set on fire. A mother and children are murdered in a flashback. Lots and LOTS of swearing, especially the f-word, plus just about every other profanity from time to time. Characters smoke -- even through their stocking masks. Mentions of cocaine and other narcotics in terms of underworld drug deals.
Parents need to know that The Usual Suspects has tons of strong language, particularly "f--k. There is an overwhelming sense of film noir-style corruption, and even the police don't look terribly clean.
Add your rating See all 4 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 32 kid reviews. Flashbacks and divergent timelines -- and it is rather confusing at first -- fill in the story, as a police detective questions one of the few survivors, a crippled, wimpy con-artist named Verbal Kevin Spacey. He claims that he and the dead men were all part of an outlaw band centered on Dean Keaton Gabriel Byrne , a former New York City cop turned career criminal.
Lured to the West Coast for a job, the victims were told they had offended a legendary international outlaw named Keyser Soze, a figure so shadowy he may or may not even exist, and much unsolved malice and mayhem surrounds him. The police are skeptical that nervous, rabbity Verbal could possibly be involved with Keyser Soze, let alone survive a close encounter. But then This is a transfixing, convoluted film noir thriller that forces you to think through events. Though it's a story without any "good" guys, in most any sense one female character, who seems to represent possible redemption, is very marginal and gets coldly killed off-screen , you'll likely want to watch it a second time to see where the filmmakers and their narrative fooled you.
That said, it does paint a picture of a pretty violent world, and the degree to which there's any philosophy or morality at work comes from Verbal Klint, who observes that Keyser Soze succeeds because he's willing to go farther and be meaner than other gangsters, and that, moreover, he's like the devil, "whose greatest trick was convincing the world that he didn't exist.
The mythic Soze works his ruthless will through unwitting dupes and hirelings, always staying in the background -- not unlike Voldemort from the Harry Potter tales. Unlike Potter , though, profanity is so thick here you'd swear the ship blows up at the start because of the heavy concentration of f-bombs.
Families can talk about why The Usual Suspects is so popular. Did you see the trick ending coming? Do you want to watch it a second time, knowing how it comes out? What does the film say about the criminal mindset and power? Can you think of real-life parallels in the realms of the Mafia and international terrorism?
You could use this movie to turn kids onto tricky crime thrillers of yesteryear, going all the way back to The Maltese Falcon , Kiss Me Deadly , The Lady from Shanghai , and The Big Sleep which didn't have to swear to hold viewers spellbound. Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners.
See how we rate. Streaming options powered by JustWatch. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization, earns a small affiliate fee from Amazon or iTunes when you use our links to make a purchase. Thank you for your support. Our ratings are based on child development best practices. We display the minimum age for which content is developmentally appropriate. The star rating reflects overall quality. Learn how we rate. Parents' Ultimate Guide to As Verbal runs to the ropes he passes behind a stack of tires and does not emerge, but the pan quickly continues to the ropes.
Bryan Singer told Kevin Spacey to stop behind the tires so Verbal isn't actually seen hiding behind the ropes, because "There's no one there. There was never anyone behind the ropes. Verbal Kint is the only one not shown getting arrested for the line up at the beginning of the movie. In the movie, Kevin Spacey's character explains that his nickname is "Verbal" because he talks too much.
During the bedside interrogation of the Hungarian survivor of the fire, the interpreter mistranslates a key word. The Hungarian uses the word "pasas" pronounced "pash-aash" which the interpreter who speaks Hungarian with a strong American accent and is therefore not native translated as "we were picking up a 'package'". Only another Hungarian could have picked up on it, and as a result, no one in the movie did, hence the police's investigation of the non-existent cocaine delivery as the motive for the fire, which allowed Verbal the time he needed to go free.
In the movie, it is foreshadowed that Hockney stole the gun parts from the truck. A famous quote from agent Kujan is that 'you know what I learned the first day on the job? How to spot a murderer. Say you pin three guys for the same murder. Whoever's sleeping is your man. You see you're guilty, you get caught, so you can have some rest'. When the usual suspects are first seen in their cell, he is seen having a nap.
When Keaton is handing out the folders Kobayashi gave them, they are handed out in the order the characters die. When Verbal borrows Dave Kujan's lighter for his cigarette, he uses his right hand to light it since his left arm is crippled. However, he can't make the lighter work and it slips from his hand. At the start of the interrogation by Kujan, Kint asks for coffee and notes that when he gets dehydrated, his urine becomes very thick and lumpy.
During the climactic montage, for two frames, about a tenth of a second, Verbal is shown dressed as the person who shoots Keaton at the beginning of the film, confirming he's Keyser Soze. In the flashback sequence, Keyser Soze is played by a man with long hair that obscures his face--this was one of the grips, chosen because he was unable to straighten his elbows, giving him a surreal, powerful look. The writer Christopher McQuarrie sat down during his lunch break at the solicitors office where he worked and made up the plot to the film from a notice board.
The board was made by Quartet, a company based in Skokie, Illinois, the same make as is in the film. After that we see Verbal Kint focusing on the bottom side of the cup Dave Kujan has been holding. In an interview on the DVD release of the movie, Benicio Del Toro admitted that he made his character sounds almost indecipherable - primarily because he knew the role of Fenster was such a throw-away role, his only purpose "was to die. When being questioned about the truck hijacking in Queens, Hockney states "I'm gonna have your fuckin' badge, cocksucker".
Though the identity of the hijacker remains a mystery for a chunk of the film, Hockney uses the same insult towards the police officer as he does towards the truck driver when he hijacks it. According to Bryan Singer in the DVD commentary, when he was trying to get Gabriel Byrne to put on the hat and coat and pretend to be Keyser Soze, Byrne kept resisting and kept demanding to know why Singer wanted him to dress up as Keyser.
Furthermore, when Verbal is thinking back on his time with Keaton towards the end of the film, there is a shot of Keaton answering the door at Edie's apartment. This echoes a similar shot from the film. Kobayashi's bodyguards are shot in the elevator, a match cut shows McManus above the lift doors.
This shot of Stephen Baldwin was filmed outside in the car park as a pick-up. In the scene where Kujan interrogates Verbal, you can see Verbal using his supposedly limp left arm to deflect Kujan's sudden physical engagement with him. Verbal mentions that to a cop, the truth is never as important as them coming to the conclusion that they want to hear. This later comes to fruition, as Dave is so wrapped up in trying to pin the crime on Keaton that he ignores what is right in front of him.
The suspects are brought in for a line up because a truck of guns was hijacked. In the line up, the suspects are given a phrase to speak that includes the word "cocksucker. Keyzer's foot stomping the cigarette was director Bryan Singer's foot.
There's no doubt that some parts of Verbal's story are true, so as not to contradict with the official account of the police. Which means that many other details of Verbal's account may also be false. For example, Agent Kujan depicts Dean Keaton as a cold-hearted, ruthless criminal who would never have changed his ways for a woman. The audience takes Verbal's counterpoint, however, and accepts Keaton as a man who has honestly changed for the woman he loves.
But since Verbal's story is a fabrication, it could very well be true that Keaton was indeed a man just like Agent Kujan described. This is the second and ultimately much bigger and often overlooked twist: that the audience has just watched what could very well be a feature-length lie, and at the end of the film, we aren't any more sure of the facts than at the start of the film.
Verbal says "He's supposed to be Turkish" about Keyser Soze. In the final scene of the film, as he is picked up by Kobayashi, he doesn't hold his cigarette between his index finger and middle finger, like most smokers do. Instead, he holds it between his index finger and thumb. This is very common in the middle and eastern regions of Turkey. The end boat sequence also corresponds to this editing choice. The name "Keyser" which resembles the pronunciation of the German word "Kaiser" meaning emperor or king.
The name Kint also resembles the word "King". During their first meeting with Kobayashi, he says "Mr. Soze rarely works with the same people for very long and they never know who they're working for". While he says "they never know who they're working for", the camera is focused on Verbal; a subtle hint of his secret identity.
Kevin Spacey confirmed at a Turkish film festival, his character in this film was Turkish, further enhancing the notion that Verbal Kint was Keyser Soze all along. Kobayashi Porcelain is not a real company. But places like Amazon sell products with that logo, including mugs.
Near the end of the Redfoot deal scene, Verbal says that "a man can convince anyone he's someone else, but never himself.
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