What's the best mind-blowing movie twist of all time? Spoiler alerts as standard!

Masaki Kobayashi’s movie Hara Kiri has a superb twist in it.

Forget Seven Samurai. This one is by far the best film ever made in the genre.

But be careful if you follow this up. There was a remake by Takashi Miike that is inferior. So beware of confusing the two versions.

And the Criterion DVD comes with an introduction by the superb Japanese movie critic Donald Richie. But he gives the game away. So avoid it.

The trailer on YouTube is also far too revealing.

Think I read somewhere that when it was initially screened, someone in the audience fainted (there’s a clue in the movie title as to the reason for this).

But anyway, if you like foreign films and don’t mind subtitles, this is one to follow up on.

As far as I know, it is available on DVD in the UK and it should be possible to stream it from somewhere.

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BlueHammer85 said:
Was it just me that clocked Bruce was dead after about 10 mins into the film ?
Zero twist that one
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Yep I noticed it straight away. The dinner table scene was like obvious to me. The fact they needed the kid to help the audience by saying some don't even know they're dead was funny.

I think Dead Man's Shoes done it better and a lot more harrowing too.

Usual Suspects was good, Spacey telling a load of horse shit as he went along to the fax coming in, top stuff.
 
CTID1988 said:
I bet watching Empire Strikes Back for the first time was great. The Usual Suspects, Seven, The Sixth Sense all blew my mind the first time.
The Vanishing (The 1988 version) is also a great one, won't spoil it here
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I was in a long line for it in front of a theater while in high school and some guy drives by and screamed “Darth Vader is Luke’s father!” at all of us.

The Usual Suspects is the one that got me although I remember thinking “Why does the term ‘quartet in Skokie, Illinois’ ring a bell?” having seen those whiteboards in every office I’d ever been in.

While not exactly a twist and open to interpretation, I think the realiz(s)ation that Clint Eastwood is the ghost of the marshal who the townspeople allowed to be murdered in “High Plains Drifter” is pretty clear at the end.
 
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