Too much grass

Rating: Null/10 (30 September 2009)

NS's last opus strongly recalls ,at least in its treatment,an old movie by Cornel Wilde "no blade of grass"(1971) (Cornel Wilde is widely known as an actor ,but as a director,he is not to be overlooked ;both the movie I mention above and "naked prey" -Gibson's "Apocalypto" owes a good deal to it- are absolute musts for people who like "something different".)
All in all,"the happenings" and "no blade of grass" deliver the same message .NS moves in most mysterious ways ,although he lets the cat out of the bag long before the end and anyway the average viewer has probably guessed before the teacher "discovers" the awful truth.
"The happenings " ,although marred by an ending we 've seen a hundred times or more ,is not bad;if you haven't seen Wilde's movie,you may find it quite absorbing ;and even if ,like me,you have,you may find some pleasure to watch it ,and certainly more than in the terrible "lady in water" which is NS's absolute nadir at least to my eyes.
No masterpiece ,but not the cheesy movie almost everyone loves putting down either.