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An enormous hulk of a man offering a flower to a young girl in the woods.
Can I talk to you?
Shyamalan makes sure to shoot Bautista from all the right angles, for maximum hugeness.
We have no idea where this is going, even as we realize it cant go anywhere good.
First, the cities will drown, Leonard intones.
The oceans will rise up … A terrible plague will descend …
The skies will fall and crash to the earth like pieces of glass.
Is he for real, or have our heroes been waylaid by a quartet of psychos?
ThatFrankensteinopening soon gives way to a home-invasion picture.
Its what defined his early films and his early success.
There are deeper, spiritual differences between the two as well.
In 2023, when someone in a movie says the world is ending, it usually is.
Earthquakes and tsunamis; pandemics run amok; planes falling from the sky.
Grief often lies at the heart of Shyamalans work.
Usually, that grief is in the past traumatic losses, lives left unlived, bodies left broken.
This time, however, it seems to lie in the future.
Hes talking specifically about the grisly deed hes about to undertake.
But in the grim quiet of the forest, Shyamalan and Bautista let the mans sadness linger and expand.
In his mournful silence, his heart breaks for the whole world.
The result is the most exhilarating and wounding film M. Night Shyamalan has made in many, many years.
