Favorite twist?

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It doesn't have to be a huge plot-changing device, just your favorite twist (ending or otherwise) in a movie. I was just reminded of mine last night - a movie aired which I hadn't seen in about 20 years, and which was released about 15 years before that. It's called A Boy and His Dog and features Don Johnson(!) in a post-apocalyptic world and his character's companion, a dog which has gained sapience and telepathy (presumably through mutation) along with a rather erudite and smug air.
Towards the end, Johnson's character is abducted by a group of townsfolk, leaving the dog out in the desert to waste away. The hero escapes with the help of a young woman also trying to escape the town, to find the dog near death and desperately in need of food - of which they have none. The dog tells the couple to leave him to die, and the young woman agrees, telling the hero that there's nothing to be done and that she loves him. Cut to scene of man and dog walking away... no sign of the woman is present, the dog indicates that he is satiated - and then makes an ironic joke about the woman being "in poor taste."
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Who is he? ;)
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Beat me to it. :)
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Sionnach Glic wrote:Beat me to it. :)
It's a classic.
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Sionnach Glic wrote:Beat me to it. :)
Which one?
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:It's a classic.
Agreed - both of them.

I can't really think of any other great movie twists, but there are a couple of novel ones.
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Sixth Sense. It's so incredibly obvious in retrospect, but I just didn't see it coming and neither did 95% of the audience. There were audible gasps throughout the theater we were in.

Planet of the Apes. "You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you to hell!"
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The twist in Angel Heart. "I know who I am!"
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Nutso wrote:Fight Club - Who Tyler Durden really is.
Totally seconding that one.
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Citizen Kane: Rosebud!
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The Manchurian Candidate
Mrs Iselin being the Soviet agent controlling Raymond. Talk about mothers from hell.
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There was that and then the...
Part where the son took his mother to the mark with him.
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Ah yes.
Was cleverly set up to make you think Sinatra was going to kick the door down in the nick of time.
Damn good film.
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