M. Night Shyamalan is a genius. (this may be considered a spoiler)

Rating: 10/10 (6 April 2000)

This extremely talented director/writer had a good 95% of his audience fooled. Did anyone else feel like an absolute idiot after he revealed the twist at the end? It could have been so obvious, (well, I'm sure some of you bright ones picked up on it) but he just lead most of us down the path of a completely different story that really didn't even happen! He knew that all he would have to do is show us a little trickery and we'd assume one thing and not worry about considering the alternatives, and we did. The "mock" story was already so interesting in itself, that I didn't question the possibility that I was missing something. If you have the DVD, you've probably seen interviews where he explains (in detail) all his carefully thought-out reasons for everything he did- EVERYTHING including where and why he used the color red throughout the movie. The little subliminal things like this are what pushes a movie over the edge. All I keep thinking is, "I NEVER would have thought of that!" A toast to Shyamalan! This is my favorite movie of all-times.