Absolutely a Terrible Movie

Rating: 1/10 (2 May 2006)

I enjoy nonsensical films. Films that just don't make any true sense. But M. Night seems to have a talent for trying to put a film out that makes no sense but has a "deeper meaning".
The two just don't go together. It is a shame he put out Sixth Sense as that has caused me to see two of the worst movies ever made. This being one of them and Signs being the other.
People can't cope with the "bad" modern world so they return to innocence by creating a web of deceit and lies, going so far as to develop full ritualistic behaviors to instill a deep an mortal terror in their children. This IS the bad side of modern life, the desire to force others to adopt what you think is the "right" way and not allow them choice.
These miscreants set up an entire Village with which to ensure their terrorized children don't ever have to experience evil. Oh yeah, that makes sense. And don't get me started on these deeply scarred people, people scarred by the deaths of loved ones, dealing so stoically with death and destruction in their new heaven.
Horrible, and I would even go so far as to say anyone that can see deep meaning without the conflict IS the "bad" side of modern life and should be avoided as readily as this clunker.