Cant decide

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2004)

As always, I come out trying to hear what others have to say, primarily a sigh of relief this time as I walked out of 'The Village'.
Comparison to Alfred Hitchcock will be doing a disservice to both the late genius of Paranoia and the young Shyamalan, note I hold back from prefixing an adjective. It is not that he does not deserve it is just that Mr. Shyamalan has a long way to grow before he can be called Hitchcock of our times.
By journeying "the Village' into shyamalan's mind I decide that shyamalan is a short story buff, one that likes twists, He likes to think through the audience,
An excellent screenplay writer is one that keeps the reaction of the audience as primary and the story and script secondary, or as tools to achieve a certain reaction within the audience.
Mr.Shyamalan is a sophisticated reaction monger, he sets himself and the audience into a conversation, has their undivided attention, engrossed the audience can jump or wrench to his screenplay. His past movies, his reputation and the promos of "the village" are preludes to the reaction monger. I cannot think of any director of NOW having such a reputation to twist, in this department Mr. Shyamalan impresses me, he does not loose control and overuse the audiences attention, he keeps the stomachs of the audience loosened most of the times only to grip them sporadically.
Mr. shyamalan's previous movies in my belief had the grip rather vice even through the ending, but in "the Village" he seems to have grown up, in a more mature fashion as if organically continuing from his past,
When the twist that is revealed it brings about a sigh of relief, a sense of contentment. An answer to the question that had unsettled you. The story lasts beyond the first twist and reveals you to a more mature second one.
Is this second twist the beginning of the end of Shyamalan trade mark intrigue and twists,? I really hope so, he is more than intrigue director, he handles his actors well, there is a sense of consistency in all his characters as if they hear the same story.
Apart from Mr. Shyamalan being a short story reader I think he has read the Atlas Shrugged.
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