Master of screenplay is back with his unusual, a spectacular thriller

Rating: 10/10 (4 February 2019)

Split is a new movie from an Indian-Born Hollywood filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan. Outrageous, deliciously thrilling and simply brilliant are some of the ways we can describe this artistic visual aura.
Story opens with a bravura opening shot of three young girls Casey, Claire, and Marcia getting kidnapped by Kevin who suffers from dissociative identity disorder right in front of you. Kevin is the main character played with great perfection by James McAvoy as he has many characters in the movie namely Dennis, Patricia, Hedwig, Barry and the ultimate Beast, the 24th character. Dr. Fletcher is the psychiatrist in charge of Kevin's case. On the other hand, among the three kidnapped girls, Casey played by Anya Taylor Joy with a traumatic childhood is the perfect foil. Intricate twists and turns keeps the viewers engrossed to the screen. Lots of scenes juxtaposes in and out leading to an unusual twisted ending leading to the revelation behind the dissociation of Kevin's 23 characters. Thordson's music gives necessary support. Mike Gioulakis' cinematography is another asset as most of the movie is indoors. This is homage to auteur of world cinema director the great Mr. De Palma and cineaste the great Mr. Polanski.
This is a sort of cinematic triumph for Mr. Shyamalan and a great comeback since "the sixth sense, Unbreakable, and the village. This movie is truly worth watching. But, there is this hitch. Anyone who watches this movie should be able to answer the following three questions. A) Why Anya Taylor Joy is shown as coming out of the zoo during the ending part? B) Who brings her out from the zoo? And finally C) Why Bruce Willis is shown in the last scene and what is his relation to the story overall? If nothing you could relate in your mind to the above three, I would suggest a fine retuning of your brain is a necessity to watch this kind of a movie and "Split" is for serious movie lovers not for the graphical gizmo kind.