Saturday, June 14, 2008

The Happening Happens

It has been an hour since I saw "The Happening" M. Night Shyamalan new film. While not terrified or overly frightened by the movie I have this sense of apprehension, this weird feeling like it is the most probable film he has made as of yet. It had a sense of reality but not as dark as most of his films, more along the lines of Cloverfield or a night of the living dead kind of universal fear, where you focus on a few characters not just one, but at the same time you follow one character, Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), as he tries to save himself, his wife (Zoey Dashcnel) and his best friends daughter from something that none of them really understand or really fight against.
There isn't so much a twist but a apocalyptic vision of whats to come.

I have this sense of dread in my heart, not because I actually worry about something like this happening, but because the idea of free will being taken away in such a manner where people become so disoriented that they inflict harm on themselves rather than others.

I thought the movie was interesting in its proposal that bees and frogs aren't the only indicator species. We, humanity, can be indications of impending ecological disasters, but by then it's too late...

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I am writing now as a huge storm barrels down on my house here in Jersey. I am putting it here because of the end of the movie, with the skies above darkening and a wind sweeping through the trees. I am just a bit thrown off because of the disturbing ideas behind the movie.