Swing away... ***Some spoilers ahead***

Rating: Null/10 (19 September 2002)

Well this took a long enough time - figuring out what Signs was maybe about. After reading some of the more perceptive viewers' comments there opened a welcomed possibility of Signs not being simply a hole-plotted, square-moralizing ridicule of a film.
At a surface level Signs is well made. It has good actors, good atmosphere and a bad plot. But what if alien invasion is not all we are looking at? Maybe this is reaching for the impossible, but if the director was not leaning toward these possibilities while making the film, the very least he would probably say is: Believe what you want, it's good you have imagination, I wanted you to think!
So, to those possibilities: There's been suggested that the whole invasion - or at least certain parts of it - were imaginary. Some have commented that most of the on-goings were just dreams of the little girl or possibly even the father initiated by the family trauma and somewhat claustrophobic living arrangement. Aliens represent fathers inner demons, plot-holes little girl's imagination. In signs there wasn't a real twist in the end (how conditioned one gets just after two films!) unless you count the silly "baseball bat-asthma-total redeeming of faith"-concoction. So MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, the whole film was but a big twist. Or maybe not.