[…] Anyway as I was lying down recuperating from my adventure, nursing my wounds and a mojito, it occurred to me to ask GITS readers, what do you think are the very best secret backstories in movies? Shocking secrets well …read more […]

"My lover is also my sister!" Lone Star, 1996 (John Sayles). Love it! (And thanks for the mojito).

Every time someone talks about plot twists the first film that comes to my mind is Gaslight (1940): crazy isn't crazy. I'd dare to say that's the mother of every plot twist that we've seen in film after that (no wonder Hollywood made its own version of the film in 1944).

"the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." - roger 'verbal' kint, aka: keyser soze