Planet of the Apesby Franklin J. Schaffner (1968)
The strength of the final Planet of the Apes lies both in its surprising and dramatic unveiling and in the way its improbability is conveyed throughout the film. George Taylor (Charlton Heston), commander of the space exploration mission, expresses his disinterest in Earth and its inhabitants on numerous occasions and in different ways. Despite the difficulties encountered after the crash of his ship, he never regrets leaving his planet. He repeats to his compatriots that everyone they know is dead since their interstellar journey took them 2000 years into the future. His world comes crashing down when he realizes he never really left her. In addition, it is the ruins of the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of welcoming immigrants, which deliver the message.
Pascal LeBlanc, The Press
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The tenantby Roman Polanski (1976)
I was in a state of astonishment for I don’t know how long after seeing the end of this film. A man, played by Roman Polanski (also a director), takes over the lease of an apartment in Paris, previously occupied by a woman who wanted to commit suicide by throwing herself out of the window. When he sees her on her hospital bed, completely beribboned, she screams. At the end of the film, after going through multiple experiences of strangeness and paranoia, when he also ends up leaving the window, we see through the eyes of the hospitalized person he was looking at at the beginning that it is on its own, hence the howl. To be honest, I never really came back from my first contact with The tenant.
Chantal Guy, The Press
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The Usual Suspectsby Bryan Singer (1995)
“The trickiest thing the devil has ever managed is to convince everyone that he doesn’t exist. » These words spoken by Roger Kint, aka Verbal (Kevin Spacey, winner of an Oscar for the role), sum up the plot of The Usual Suspects. In just over two hours, we are both fascinated and frightened by the legend of Keyser Söze. The screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie (behind the last three Impossible mission), which won him an Oscar, is so skillfully constructed that it is almost impossible to spot the clues scattered throughout his story on first viewing. Our brain “explodes” in the same way that a coffee cup shatters.
Pascal LeBlanc, The Press
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Fight Clubby David Fincher (1999)
“The first rule of fight club is: it is forbidden to talk about fight club. » Well, too bad, let’s break this rule! In this David Fincher film, released in 1999, a disillusioned chronic insomniac (Edward Norton) befriends a soap salesman, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), with whom he founds a secret fight club. What we don’t notice at first is that before they meet, Tyler appears subliminally four times. The reason ? The man, who is never named, suffers from a split personality. “I know it because Tyler knows it,” he says at the beginning of the film.
Manon Dumais, The Press
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The Sixth Senseby M. Night Shyamalan (1999)
“I see people who are dead,” little Cole Sear (Haylee Joel Osment) tells child psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis). Before seeing this fantasy drama from M. Night Shyamalan, released in 1999, everyone had heard the famous cult line in the trailer. However, like Malcolm, no one understood at that moment that Cole was revealing the end of the film. Nor did anyone notice that after being shot by a former patient, the psychologist wore the same clothes, no longer had a shadow and only Cole saw him. For what ? Because Malcolm is dead!
Manon Dumais, The Press
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Still from the film Hochelaga
HochelagaMichel Jetté (2000)
We rarely talk about this Quebec film whose ending threw me on my ass in 2000. An foray into the world of biker groups, at a turning point where they become “professionals”, that is to say “organized ”, therefore more pragmatic. Young Marc (Dominic Darceuil) climbs the ranks in this hierarchy a little against his will, but we are going to shoot him down, to bring peace with the other gangs. “It pisses me off,” says Finger (David Boutin), the character who must kill him at the end, because he knows that he is eliminating one of the most honest and promising (in the context of organized crime). , we agree) of the clan. A metaphor for youth that is sacrificed for power, not just in crime. I interpret this ending this way, because it still haunts me.
Chantal Guy, The Press
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Oldboy, by Park Chan-wook (2003)
A Korean businessman is kidnapped. He is kept in captivity, in a room where he only has access to a television. On the news, he learns that his wife has been murdered and that he is the main suspect. Freed after 15 years of solitude by his captors, he tries to find his 19-year-old daughter. In his quest, he meets by chance a young woman who becomes his mistress and finds the person behind his kidnapping, a former classmate about whom he once spread the rumor of incest about his sister. To take revenge, the classmate tells him that thanks to hypnosis, he caused the affair between the father and… his daughter.
Marc Cassivi, The Press
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Firesby Denis Villeneuve (2010)
Jeanne and Simon Marwan are twins who learn, upon reading their mother’s will, that their father is still alive and that they have an older brother. They will be responsible for delivering a letter to each person in order to respect the last wishes of Nawal, who has just died suddenly. This woman, who was imprisoned in her country of origin, raped and tortured by her jailer, had to abandon her newborn at birth. She recognized him years later, in a Montreal swimming pool, because he had three dots tattooed on his heel. Except that she also understands, when she sees his face, that he is the prison guard who tortured her…
Marc Cassivi, The Press
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