Intelligent people think they are cheated - the movie is a FRAUD!

Rating: 7/10 (14 June 2008)

Manoj Night Shyamalan (MNS) evokes a weird feeling inside me. I always expect something unusual and something very different from him. With every movie he presents a concept, that is well thought and presented. I was looking forward to this movie. I saw it today -
The movie is about unusual things happening  people loosing thinking, direction and fatally committing suicide - in US, starting from big city (New York) and approaching remote areas of North East US. The indication of something fatal approaching is the direction of wind  the trees shaking and the grass quavering. Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) is a science teacher, and he is on a run - from these unusual events - with his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) and his friend's girl child Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez). To avoid death, Elliot tries scientific methodology of analysis, study, interpretation etc. but fails to understand the ways of these happenings. As mysteriously the happenings starts, they end also without any logic, science or reason.
In the beginning of the movie MNS brags about science, intelligence etc. and I was thinking what the hell  why is he showing off? Also MNS is upfront  in the beginning he presents the concept of the movie  Not all things can be understood by science and reason. That is the concept and the core of the movie.
Most people expect some cause and effect relationship. That is how our minds are trained. MNS presents the concept very casually in the beginning but follows it up diligently till the end. Did he fool the audience? NO. Only that audience who thought they were intelligent  but actually who are not intelligent enough to respect nature and natural events and happenings  did not get it.
The movie holds your attention from the beginning till the end. MNS has a great style of presenting his narrative  that engages, builds, and challenges the audiences. Great stuff! He is a master of the medium and his concepts.
In an interview he told that this movie is simple  it does not have a twist in the ending. And there is none. Fools mights consider this movie a fraud, but it is brilliant.
Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel and Ashlyn Sanchez have played their part as per the role. The narrative is simple, but edge of the sit.
Full marks to MNS! If you have not liked the movie, you must be the one who is falsely considering him/herself intelligent  a scientific person, who requires answers for everything. Let me tell you  there are no answers for many things in life and nature. Earlier learned the better for your intelligence! (Stars 7 out of 10)