seven at least

Rating: 8/10 (2 July 2008)

This is probably most underestimated movie of a decade. Shyamalan suffers greatly for his first widely known picture - 6th sense. People thought it was about twists and ghosts while it says there are no ghosts, there are our dead relatives of which memories are still strong and alive. We owe sometimes something to those who were living among us. MNS always takes the genre only to say something original using language of that genre. He took comic hero in Unbreakable to say that being hero means staying with wife and kid. In SF styled 'Signs' he was talking that there is no senseless life and all things you don't understand in this moment may find reason later (glasses full of water everywhere - those glasses are the signs, also asthma etc.). 'The Happening' is something like catastrophic movies of 70's. And whats the ultimate catastrophe? Marriage crisis. Everything what's happening is just metaphor. Thats why danger ends when heroes draw together. World loses all reason because they have forgotten what is the color of love (green). Dialogs are simple, but good. Acting also. All fits to scheme of normal people trying to survive. They are not superheroes meant to save the world but only to save themselves.