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The Usual Suspects - Film Analysis The director uses several cinematic techniques and embeds a whole range of other techniques to create a dark atmosphere. The opening foreshadows the sinister mood and atmosphere throughout the entirety of the movie. A wide panning shot across a body of water is accompanied by sinister music; created to enhance the visual experience. This style of music is used in many scenes to emphasize and to sustain the eerie …

…you. You're a crippled and dumb person. That's why he chose you..." A final close up shot of Verbal smiling "...and he vanished just like that", as if he was actually the 'devil' he was describing. The audience comes to realize from the last few concluding scenes that the mysterious, silhouetted figure is actually the narrator and also the crippled man, Verbal. The pleonastic, sinister music eloquently concludes the movie, and leads to the credits.