Towards the end of The Man Who Was Thursday there is a huge turn-a-round/plot twist at the end. I'm not going to tell what it is, because that wouldn't be cool. But it was a gigantic change in plot. But i saw it coming. That happens to me alot, when I se changes in plot coming. and it happens to alot of the people I know. Why?
Sometimes I think that these things are done too much. People do thriller endings and plot twists so much, sometimes the unexpected becomes expected. In alot of thrillers and really serious books the authors feel obliged to do something "unexpected". sometimes its better if they don't.
I think it would be really great if in movies where you aren't expecting such a sharp plot twist, like, say, that movie knight and day where Tom Cruise is a secret agent who falls in love with Cameron Diaz. It is a romantic comedy sort of thing. but if in the middle tome cruise is just driving and is hit by a bus, and dies. That would make movies in general much more interesting. The same thing for those kinds of books.
Eamon, I feel like the details and subtleties of the book are lost here in your post's vaguneness. Can you explain better?
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