Everyday life as a metaphor.

Rating: 10/10 (14 August 2006)

Unbreakable is a film about a troubled and slightly depressed security guard who. after being the sole survivor of a train wreck, reluctantly begins to understand that there is something very special about him The best thing about Unbreakable is that it uses everyday life events, people, actions, words and feelings to interpret the comic book world for us. That special skill is a trademark for Mr Night. As seen in both Signs and Lady in the water, the same kind of everyday usage to explain something that is beyond the everyday life, is Moore of an impacting trademark, then the surprise ending deal. Unbreakable is something as unusual as a "kitchen realism-superhero saga, with all that belongs in such a tale. We have got the "missunderstood" and troubled man who's efforts to to good pushes him in the opposite direction. We have our superhero, skilled and best friends with his nemesis, a common theme in comic books. And we have got, a weakness in the hero, a costume, a discovery of powers, a "brute villain". everything is there, dressed in a everyday life. This is the beauty of the film, and M. Night does not store away from this aspect one millimeter'.