Usual Suspects, Film Review Speech

INTRO :: 1 Person

The feature film The usual suspects relies on its unusual twist at the end for its major impact upon the audience. This twist depends on our reading of Kevin Spacey’s disabled character Heath, He is seen as unlikely to be a suspect throughout the movie because our attitudes tend to read handicapped people as less capable than others. . Although we don’t identify with the central character Heath, we identify with the dominant cultural readings of his type. The film represents the way in which society silences and marginalizes disabled people and in this case, how a criminal uses this societal attitude to his own advantage by pretending to suffer from disability.

INTRO 2 :: 2nd Person

The filmmaker’s particular values are shaped throughout the film, often supporting the theory of how society silences disabl...