Usual Respect And Inside Man Essay

The Themes of the Usual Suspect and Inside Man

Both the movie The Usual Suspect and Inside Man two different movies but have similar themes.

Both The Usual Suspect and Inside Man are crime movie. The Usual Suspect is about the five criminals that met at the police lineup and were manipulated into pulling off a drug heist. The Inside Man is about a robber’s perfect bank heist. Both movie had an unexpected ending which leads to the four themes in both The Unusual Suspect and the Inside Man are control, fear, power and deceitfulness.

Themes in The Usual Suspects and the Inside Man

The first theme in The Usual Suspects and the Inside Man is control. In The Unusual Suspect, Kujan wants to find out what happened that day on the boat. The only person who knows what happened that day on the boat was Verbal. Kujan interrogates Verbal, but Verbal won’t give straight answers, Kujan manipulates Verbal by pressuring him into telling the truth about the mastermind behind the criminal acts was Dean Keaton. Verbal manipulates Kujan by making him think that he is being manipulated by Kujan but in reality Verbal is the manipulator in the situation. In the

Inside Man, Dalton Russell was the master man behind the robbery. He took control by holding the people that was in the bank hostage and he made them change into the same outfit as the robbers.
The second theme in The Usual Suspects and the Inside Man is fear. In The Unusual Suspect, after Kobayashi made an offer they all can’t refuse which was to either pull off a drug heist or face the unpleasant consequences. Fenster tried to take the money from the guys and run away because he was scared but he was not successful because he ended up dead. In the Inside Man, the hostages was scared because they don’t know when the robbers were going to snap or kill them. They were also afraid they wouldn’t make it out of the bank alive.
The third theme in both The Usual Suspects and the Inside Man is power, In The Unusual Suspect, Verbal had a lot of power because he was the only one that knew what happened that day on the boat. He is also powerful because he is Keyser Soze. Keyser Soze influenced the gangs to pull of a drug heist by threatening their loved ones. In the Inside Man, Dalton Russell had a lot of power because he was in control of the situation. He was the one who get to decide whether to let the hostage go or not. He was the one who planned the robbery. He also knew Arthur Case’s secret.
The fourth theme in both The Usual Suspects and the Inside Man is deceitfulness.

In The Usual Suspects, the whole movie was a lie. Towards the end, the audience and Kujan realized that the narrator Verbal is Keyser Soze. We don’t know what really happened and if there was any truth behind the story Verbal told. In the Inside Man, Arthur Case has a big secret that can ruin him. Russell implied in the conversation with White that Arthur Case started the bank with the money he received from the Nazis for some sort of service that caused the death of many Jewish people during the World War II. Case later on admit his action and the content of the box to White, Besides the paperwork that proves he is guilty, there were also diamonds and a ring that belong to a French Jewish banker and his family who were sent to concentration

camps.

Reasons Why the Two Movies Differ
Both the movie The Usual Suspects and the Inside Man are different because although they have similar themes but they both also explores different themes in the movie. In the Inside Man, social controversies were mentioned. a young boy who was one of the hostage was playing a game on his portable system. The young boy explains how the game work to Russell. He demonstrates that in order to get “street cred” you would have to kill a black gang member with multiple gunshots on the head and swallow an explosive grenade. Another example in the Inside Man is when one of the hostage they released the first thing one of the cop assumed he was an Arab and he was anti- American because the hostage had a dark complexion with a turban on his head. While The Usual Suspects focused on criminality, the other criminals except for Verbal because he was Keyser Soze, all ended up dead. They were dragged into a police lineup, was manipulated and killed by the same person who hired them Keyser Soze.
Conclusion
Both the movie The Usual Suspects and the Inside Man are different but yet similar in some ways. Both movies were similar because they had common themes. The four common themes from both movies are control, fear, power and deceitfulness, They are different because the different ideas they focused in the movies, In the Inside Man, social controversy was mentioned in the movie. The social controversy that was mentioned is race, it was mentioned twice in the movie. In The Usual Suspects, focused on criminality, all the other criminals all ended up dead. They were manipulated and killed by the same person, in a way they were paying for their crimes.