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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I don't think Kobayashi was Soze --- or, more accurately, that the guy who played Kobayashi in the narrative was Soze in "real" life. I agree that it's Verbal. However, there is no such person as Kobayashi. It's a word Verbal got off the label on the bottom of a coffee cup in the interview room. Since he's telling the story and adding elaboration as Kujan pushes him for more (notice he doesn't start talking about Soze until Kujan asks him, based on the tip from the dying burn victim at the pier, and involuntarily explodes with "Shit!" when Kujan suddenly asks "Who is Kayser Soze?"). He completely made up the Kobayashi character in the narrative in order to get out of Kujan's office. The movie depicts him as being played by the same guy who picks up Verbal in the car on the street as he limps away from the interview room. But it's natural that the visual depiction would use images of people Verbal actually knew. The movie is just the tapestry of Verbal's story, which he's making up as he goes along, getting himself out of jams that his narrative put him in.
So, no, Kobayashi is not Soze, but in the visual story he's "played" by the guy who's Soze's real assistant in "real" life.
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I disagree. I think there is enough evidence (all the killing on the boat, the killing in the building where they meet kobayashi, all the other killings, the fact that the usual suspects were in fact jailed together, etc.) that his story really just substitutes names of actual people.
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