Looking back at the book as a whole, what really resonated with me was the plot twist. I absolutely love plot twists. Something about taking the story and throwing it to a far, distant land seems so freaking awesome to me. So, I've decided to locate some films that have equally as fantastic plot twists.
1. Fight Club:Quite possibly one of the coolest plot twists I've seen in a while, which takes place primarily in a hotel room, where the narrator, Jack (Edward Norton), learns that his friend Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) is no more than a dissociation of his own personality. At this point, we use our vast medical knowledge and understanding of the human brain to diagnose Jack with Schizophrenia.
2. The Sixth Sense:
As crappy as 95% of the films M. Night Shyamalan's makes are, I give him credit for having some of the greatest plot twists of all time. This being one of them. The thriller opens with a sequence that involves Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) getting shot by a former patient of his, one whom Crowe failed to cure. As the next scene portrays Crowe meeting his new patient, Cole (Haley Joel Osmont), we assume that he made it through the shooting okay. As the film progresses, we learn of Cole's ability to speak to the dead, and how it relates strangely to the patient we met in the first scene. However, in one of the final scenes of the film, we learn that Crowe didn't survive the shooting, and all this time, Crowe had been a walking spirit, and Cole was the only one that could see him. This explains a lot in the film, especially the estranged relationship he has with his wife.3. Shutter Island:
Shutter Island is one of my favorite Martin Scorcese films, as well as one of my favorite novel adaptions of all time. The psychological thriller follows Federal Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner as they investigate the disappearance of one of the patients at Shutter Island, a mental asylum for the criminally insane. The utter strangeness of the case itself, as well as the apparent inability of any of the staff to help, leads Teddy to believe that something is seriously wrong with this place. However, approximately 90 minutes and several dream-sequences later, Teddy learns the truth: this entire situation isn't real. In truth, Teddy is an inmate of Shutter Island, sent there after he killed his wife out of revenge for the death of their children. We learn that this entire plot has been a set-up, in hopes that Teddy will snap out of his reality and come back to the real one.
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