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Keyser Soze — The devil we created together!
“Keaton always said, ‘I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of him.’ Well, I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Söze.” — Roger “Verbal” Kint
Keyser Söze is a fictional character and the main antagonist in “The Usual Suspects”, the hour and 40 minutes long crime drama movie that released in August 1995, written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer. The movie left the audience reconsidering all that they saw in the previous 100 minutes, as to what is the truth — what they saw, what they heard (from Verbal) or something else? The movie introduced us to the world, or rather the concept, of Keyser Söze.
“The Usual Suspects” is about a gang of low-level criminals who get rounded up for a police line up as a part of an interrogation. One of them, a small time con man, Roger ‘Verbal’ Kint (brilliantly enacted by Kevin Spacey, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role), when questioned later by a US Customs agent Dave Kujan, narrates the whole story, shown in the movie in flashbacks, with the mention of a too-evil to be true Turkish crime lord Keyser Söze. Verbal tells Kujan the entire story, right from the formation of the crew and how on the orders of Keyser Söze, they had been sent to destroy millions of dollars worth cocaine on a drug smuggling ship (which is where the film…
