"This character you thought you knew is actually two different characters splitting one identity"
I mean this with no disrespect to you or anyone else; I'm just asking about your criteria: Does it count as "being unexpectedly told" if some viewers had figured it out earlier in the film? I had that one fairly early on. Your second objected-to point, I didn't have figured out, but it also didn't seem particularly surprising when I found out; I think all the clues were given, that something like that had to be happening.
With films like Nolan's, there's no way that every viewer will figure out everything; and Nolan himself has said that he purposely made the ending of Inception ambiguous. But with any film, my viewpoint is that if some viewers figure out something, or if the director intended for it to be left ambiguous, the film plays fair.
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Date: 2011-02-21 04:01 pm (UTC)I mean this with no disrespect to you or anyone else; I'm just asking about your criteria: Does it count as "being unexpectedly told" if some viewers had figured it out earlier in the film? I had that one fairly early on. Your second objected-to point, I didn't have figured out, but it also didn't seem particularly surprising when I found out; I think all the clues were given, that something like that had to be happening.
With films like Nolan's, there's no way that every viewer will figure out everything; and Nolan himself has said that he purposely made the ending of Inception ambiguous. But with any film, my viewpoint is that if some viewers figure out something, or if the director intended for it to be left ambiguous, the film plays fair.