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Movie Review:The Happening
I saw M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie,The Happening, this weekend. M. Night has made some of my favorite movies. For me, he hit it out of the park with The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs. He hit a double with The Village and hit a single with Lady in the Lake.
The Happening was a double. Overall, it was a good movie. As always, Night has a way of telling a very scary story without being graphic or obvious. I love the way he uses subtlety and imagery to tell the story.
What I also really like about his work is that his movies have an Alfred Hitchcock-ian feel to them. Hitchcock’s movies were also very scary through their subtlety. It is a very minimalist way to make a movie. One in which what is not said or done tells the story as much as what is said or done. I also like how Night incorporates his hometown of Philadelphia in his movies.
The reason I didn’t like the movie more was personal. It had an environmental message to it. Not that I hate the environment, but I get tired of political hot-button agenda issues always being pushed in my face. I hope this doesn’t ruin it for you if you haven’t seen it, but the implication was that the environment is getting humanity back for its offenses against it. When I go to see a movie I want to escape reality. I don’t want to be preached at and be told how to live.
Oh yea, Mark Wahlberg did a fine job too. I actually think he is decent actor.
The Happening was OK.
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I don’t think people should be “scared” off by the threat of an environmentalist message. In my opinion, the plot does not necessarily point to “saving the environment”, but to a creative threat to humanity.