It is all about HEART

Rating: 10/10 (12 July 2008)

Shyamalan's movies are always about heart. The human's heart. To understand his story, and the implication that he wishes to convey with his movies, one just have to LET GO of his mind, go back to his heart, just watch.
Same with this movie, The Happening. There is no intellectual. There is no logic or illogic. There is no cleverness. There is no brain. There is no mind. There is no thinking. There is nothing. Yeah, I sound like a mystic. But Shyamalan understand the mystical way of the world. His movies are always not about the brain, it is all about the heart. If you use your brain, just cannot let it go, just keep on thinking and thinking and thinking and arguing and arguing, non-stop, you will not understand.
I know, letting go of the brain to watch this movie sounds like an idiot. But remember one thing. All mystics, all religious masters ever existed, having existed and existing, know one thing that is very important but ordinary guys like you and me simply love to ignore, that is, to let go of the mind, eventually.
Most people just cannot let go of their mind. Therefore they find it very difficult to understand this movie, treating this movie like trash. All because, they live in the mind for so long, just cannot let go, cannot trust their heart to simply feel and understand the movie.
Do you know why those people in the movie can't help but killing themselves? Because they, like you and me, live in the mind and rely too much on it. Too much relying on the mind, sooner or later, you may feel like you want to kill yourselves to end all this misery, because the MIND is the only source of misery. Nothing else. It is because of the mind, you want to kill yourselves, simple as that. But can you get it?
Do you know why the 3 main actors can survive in the Happening? Because they are PURE. They are in the HEART. There is goodness in them. There is LOVE in them. Innocent is with them. All the goodness I mentioned above, trust me ,most people simply just have lost them. That is why, they do not understand. They just rely to much on their brain.
Yeah, in the movie, the Act of Nature kills. Why it kills we never know. But one thing that I know, or understand, is that, the nature won't hurt another nature. So why hurt those people? Because those people, like you and me, keep themselves away of the nature, and live in the brain. In other words, they become no longer part of the nature. Because they choose to do so. They choose to over-rely their brain.
The Act of Nature do not kill the main actors, simply because, they are still with the mother nature. They are love, innocence, heart, pure. The nature treats them as their own, that is why they survive. They are survive because they are NATURE. Never part from the nature.
If you do not understand, you have to find ways to do so, because living all the time in the mind and over-dependent on it is not life. Letting it go is.