WARNING: Spoilers for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and The Usual Suspects.
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm incorporates The Usual Suspects for a climactic twist.
Released 25 years apart, The Usual Suspects and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm are wildly different films. The 1995 movie marks the second feature written by Christopher McQuarrie, and centers on a Los Angeles tragedy that's recalled by Roger "Verbal" Kint (Spacey). Much of the narrative takes place in an investigation room, as Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) questions Kint about the usual suspects and a mysterious crime lord known as Keyser Söze. In Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Sacha Baron Cohen reprises his 2006 Borat role for a mockumentary sequel that targets U.S. politicians such as Mike Pence and Rudy Giuliani. Jason Woliner's 2020 film begins with Borat being sent to America for a secret mission, which set up a final twist and a clever reference to The Usual Suspects.
In The Usual Suspects, Kujan experiences an epiphany after completing his interview with Kint. While enjoying a cup of coffee and casually looking at an investigation board, Palminteri's character comes to the realization that Kint's entire story was pieced together from information that he acquired from documents within the room. The interviewee had referenced a town named Skokie, Illinois, along with a "big, fat guy" named Redfoot from California. Kujan ultimately reaches the truth after discovering that Kint used information from the bottom of a coffee mug to further boost his tall tale. Once Palminteri's character realizes that Kint IS Keyser Söze, he recalls his previous statement that "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." In Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Cohen and company parody The Usual Suspects' coffee drop scene for a COVID-19 twist.
COVID-19 discovery with the assistance of his daughter Tutar (Maria Bakalova). Whereas Kujan fails to track down Kint in The Usual Suspects, Borat manages to blackmail Premier Nursultan Nazarbayev and make a deal for Kazakhstan to become a feminist nation.
After The Usual Suspects reference in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, the final narration reveals that the mail order bride business has been deemed misogynic in the newly feminist Kazakhstan, and so the country decides to export grooms. The film then indirectly references The Usual Suspects by showing that a crate of grooms are being sent to K. Spacey - Keyser Söze himself - in Hollywood, California. In a dark twist, and the actual reason for the reference, Spacey has been repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct by several men over the years, however, there haven't been any active criminal cases. In another dark twist, the director of The Usual Suspects - Singer - has also been accused of sexual misconduct in cases that involve minors.
