The Usual Suspects

Was anybody else reminded of this? It's very close, both in having the story told by an unreliable narrator, and in his escape.

And, I don't apologize for no spoiler warnings, because, c'mon, Usual Suspects is one of the greatest films of all time and over 15 years old.

But you know when you watch Usual Suspects again, you suddenly realize that you don't even know if anything happened? Any of the character traits of Keeton or Fenster or McManus and the specific scenarios could've just been made up - not just the ad hoc details to flesh out the Keyser Soze portion which is whhat the main "gotcha" is. And then, of course, just walking right out after spilling the beans.

So, we don't know any if the cool tricks that Bishop did like getting to the balcony actually happened, or were just Muir exercising his imagination and showing how well he trained him. Remember how glowing he was in praise to the other guys' incredulity at the leeway Bishop was given?

Just a thought, I don't know if there's any direction influence, but very reminiscent...