"Man thinks they are each alone in this world. It is not true. You are all connected. One act can one day affect all."
Shyamalan has a fascination with oddballs and contrasts. His visual language is steeped in horror but the heart of his works is so full of sincerity and earnestness that it goes contrary to all established sensibilities of most moviegoing audiences and critics, our existing vocabulary fails us. The off-kilter visual language at first seems distant, unfocused,…
Keeping your inner child literally alive and well and celebrating each day and moment as an oppertunity to do... well... anything! An altar of spontaneity, simple joyful connections and fearlessnes in a world of stifflement and meaningless structure of order and expectations.
Absolute freedom in form and spirit. This was beamed to us from another world. A world we only touch when our body and mind are completely unencumbered.
It's so easy to say watching something off-kilter is like being…
If you wanted to make this a better BIG screen experience You'd just let it play in desktop mode the whole time. They do however do a lot to enhance clarity and direct you towards the key infos for dramatic potency, and make no mistake it is dramatically potent. It feels less adventurous formally than I wish it were but it really is a breeze, engaging mystery that clocks in longer than you'd expect. Definitely better than the first which…
A film without personality, spiritual purpose or genuine passion. It is workman-like in every facet and all that it has is texture without life. A brutalist film by a Game of Thrones-motivated committee.
There is formlessness to every aspect of its rhythm, from the pacing to the editing, to the music. It just all goes on and on in search of something within this adaptational desert and comes up empty handed and half baked. It has no feeling or spirit…
A film about the flattening that comes with canonization, being itself flattened by its own duties to canonization, cheapening the initial impact of the original film, sacrificing crucial internally important payoffs for the promise of another chapter that will actually make good on those emotional build-ups. It does put forth a really potent question that the series has yet to answer this time around about what good is 'anyone can wear the mask' of heroicism when it becomes tied to…
