Spoiler Alert! Some Thoughts On Twist Endings
, Twist endings have gotten something of a bad rap, and usually with good reason. After all, in many cases they are a cheap way to add excitement to the climax of an otherwise dull story; sometimes they are a cop-out, negating all emotional involvement that may have been invested in a film up until that point; others seem to be the sole reason for a story’s existence, without which the whole thing crumbles. On the other hand, when they work, twist endings can make a good film great, and they occasionally even reward repeat viewings by revealing previously unseen layers that can only be recognized once the conclusion of the story is known.As rightly reviled as are many recent examples of the technique, especially many of Shyamalan’s subsequent efforts, there are also many laudable examples to be found among some of history’s greatest cinematic achievements, old and new. Widely respected filmmakers from Alfred Hitchcock to David Fincher and Christopher Nolan have successfully employed the well-placed twist to wonderful effect, and even Orson Welles’s immortal classic Citizen Kane
Now would be a good time for the inevitable “spoiler” warning. In the following paragraphs we will be discussing various types of twist endings and how they have worked (or not) in a variety of different films. By the very nature of such a discussion, key plot elements will necessarily be revealed, so the reader is hereby advised to have seen the following films before proceeding:
The Lady Vanishes (2001) undoubtedly suffered from Shyamalan’s reintroduction of this type of twist into the popular consciousness.
The biggest problem with the unacknowledged death twist is its strong tendency to be the story’s sole reason for existence; as mentioned before, this is one of the primary reasons a twist can fail. The best of these types of films can be fun to rewatch in order to spot the little clues that were there all along, but they mostly lose any repeat viewing value once the outcome is known. The same can also be true of films that take the opposite route, revealing a character presumed dead to actually be alive. Again, this twist is very commonly employed and can work wonderfully when it is not the story’s only interesting aspect, as in, for example, Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige (the “other magician movie” of 2006).
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