What's happening? Go kill yourself!

Rating: 10/10 (16 June 2008)

Many of you so-called-critics have voiced your opinions of the Happening, declaring it to be an outright disaster. Many of you have obviously lost your sense of humor, wasting away day to day in your cubicles at your nine to five day job that you've had for twenty years to pay of your overdue loans to some fifth rate film school. You obviously have no foundation to stand on when criticizing this man for creating gone of the funniest films of our generation. Everyone who has denounced this film simply cannot understand the concept of irony. What all of you dimwits don't realize is, that like Barack O'Bama, M. Night Shyamalan is a dreamer. With this brilliant canvas, he has painted a world where we can all get together and finally share a hearty laugh at the entire north east killing themselves in the most creative manners. In the same tradition of physical comedy legends The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and Tom and Jerry; Shyamalan finally brings us the the R-rated physical comedy that everyone has always wanted to see. How many of us have never thought what it would be like if we were at the San Francisco Zoo that fateful day when that kid fed himself to that tiger? Exactly, my point! I was searching for days on the internet trying to see any home videos someone might have caught with their cell phones. When none appeared, I was greatly upset. But after watching Mr. Shyamalan's film I now feel like I have seen that elusive footage. Much like Roger Altman's masterpiece MASH, The Happening has a darker side to it. The plot to this film was so much more than the hour and a half of wacky, unadultered, gruesome suicides I was hoping for, it had a much deeper message. By using images of people committing suicide by jumping out of buildings, he resurrected every image of 9/11 from my subconscious and made me realize that after we win the wars in Afganistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, China, and Finland, we will have to fight another enemy... Mother Earth. This is the film that historians will look back upon as being ahead of it's generation, much like Videodrome. With this film I have come to the conclusion that like he suggests in his film Lady in the water, that Shyamalan is a profit. I do not think that the Auteur was far off when he compared this masterpiece to Hitchcock's The Birds. He is one of the true visionaries of this generation of filmmakers and he has portrayed a world where the plants can one day attack us and when that day comes I'll be holding my sides with laughter.