Questions regarding "The Usual Suspects"...**spoiler warning**

[Arkham House]

I was having a conversation recently with some fellow movie buffs about this film, and we were discussing what we could know, and not know, about the ending. We know that the lady lawyer existed, because the cop told Kevin Spacey her body was found. We see Stephen Baldwin addressing someone as "Kaiser Soze" right in the beginning of the film. We see Kevin Spacey get into the car with Pete Postelwaite at the end, but we also know the name Spacey gave the cop for this man is false. Do we know anything else about the facts of this film? One guy even said there was a dispute as to Kaiser Soze's real identity...but I had thought this was established definitively...or am I wrong? I've seen it three times now, and thought that that point, at least, was established... Are there mysteries about the film that I haven't grasped? (A very strong possibility, I might add...)

[Shakespeare]

1. I suspect you're over-thinking it.

I've seen the movie too many times to count; what Spacey (as Verbal Kint) tells Kujan is a mixture of fact and fiction, which is quite deliberate and is revealed to us (just as Kujan figures it out) at the very end. This way, Kujan realizes that Kint is really Soze, and that he's been fucking with him for the past few hours.

There's no dispute about who Soze ultimately is in the movie (though movie trivia is that Gabriel Byrne was livid that HE wasn't Soze, something none of the actors were told until filming had wrapped). And Spacey's acting is brilliant at the end as you see just his feet along the sidewalk, and he gradually loses Kint's "limp" as he walks towards the car.

I love, love, love this movie.