What if God wrote Sci-Fi books (SPOILERS)

Rating: 8/10 (25 September 2002)

-- WARNING SPOILERS --
I've just seen "Signs", and while I was watching it, I knew it was one of the best movies I have ever seen. M. Night Shyamalan is one of my favorite directors, I have seen his last 3 movies, and I loved every one of them. "Signs" is a very hard movie to understand. Its seems to be sci-fi, but with a little bit of horror/suspense on it. It's like "Close Encounters" meets "Sixth Sense".
My favorite scene in the movie is the basement one. It was shot almost entirely in the dark, and we can only see fragments of sounds and images. And, amazingly, just like "Blair Witch Project", it works. Why? Well, because the whole suspense is in the audiences minds.
I think you might find that interesting: as I was watching the movie, I kept trying to solve the movie's puzzle, the final surprise. I mean it's there, in every M. Night movie. And I thought that those were not aliens, but DEMONS or DEVILS or something. And what would make the demons go away would him getting back to his faith. I mean, watch the scene where he refuses to pray with his children when he is about to eat... And you'll see that my point of view could be right. What made the "demons" go away the first time? Mel Gibson's character, "praying" silently when his son is fighting to breath. And what made the "demons" go away the second time? Water. Why? I dunno, maybe because they live in hell or something, and just like fire would burn us, they get hurt by water...
Anyway... I can only think of two persons who could try to film such a movie, Hitchcock and Kubrick. Hitchcock would probably not use some camera elements (as the "in the ground" shots), and would not use SFX as it is needed to create the mood, so it wouldn't work. Kubrick would probably use his "parallel to the wall" shots, and his face close-ups, and would NOT end the movie like that... So... maybe it wouldn't work. Maybe. Kubrick would surprise us in some other creepy way.
Only M. Night could direct this movie. So... Let's just wait for his next one.