A tribute to Hitchcock

Rating: 9/10 (4 August 2002)

The best storyteller in the Movie Business. (Sorry Stephen)
IMHO the central theme was the struggle between the two philosophies; that we are lucky plus having (God) watching and jiggling the odds a bit, or we were strictly on our own. The first philosophy, one which ultimately prevailed, included the coincidences which gave Mel Gibson the clues (signs) to understand the conflict he was in, both with the aliens and himself. We understand he ultimately won when he put the collar on at the end of the film. All of the clues are spread out: his wife's last message, his daughter's water obsession, his son's asthma, his brother's skill with (and seeming obsession with) a bat and inability to not swing, the clue from M. Night himself about the alien's not liking water. All fits. I can't wait for the DVD so I can hear his explanation. I completely missed all the 'signs' in The Sixth Sense.