Now, I know everyone will probably bring up The Sixth Sense and The Usual Suspects, but to start this off on a less usual note, I want to share my absolute favorite, and I didn’t even realize what it meant until later.
At the very beginning of The Crying Game, at the carnival, while Jody is peeing still holding Jude’s hand, he tells her that he’s “never held a woman’s hand before.” I wonder if any moviegoers seeing it for the first time remembered that statement, and thought it very odd, when they introduced Jody’s long-time “girlfriend”?
I’ve always remembered that one just because it was so neat, so subtle, and, well, so cool. Any others as cool as this one?