Bad story, great philosophical idea!

Rating: 8/10 (6 February 2001)

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Nobody can avoid the comparison with sixth sense, neither me. And I have to admit that the plot was better in 6th sense. Unbreakable's story is full of "gaps". For example, Willis hasn't ever been sick or injured in his entire life but he hasn't notice the fact yet! He believes that he was injured on a car accident, but when Jackson tell's him he wasn't, he admit with surprise it's true! He didn't know if he was injured or not? So, why do I believe that Unbreakable is better than 6th sense? It's the idea behind the story, something that was missing in sixth sense. 6th sense was just a game between the director and the audience. And everything was the ending. In unbreakable, the audience is expecting the same: a not-so-interesting main story, that is completely changed by the final scene. And the bet is that the director should find an even more surprising ending. He failed. But he succed something else.
The not-so-interesting story becomes a dialectic philosophical thought: you are the opposite of your opposite. Your opposite defines you. You exist because your opposite also exists. And if you cannot find your opposite, you have two solutions: die or create it!
Jackson creates his opposite by a man who is led by the facts out of him. Willis is not a good person, he is absolutely neutral. Of course he is unbreakable, but he doesn't know it, so he is not! He has found his place around the average, because the average doesn't need an opposite: it the opposite itself. But Jackson knows that he is the unlucky guy, so it must exist a lucky, good, perfect one, to define his existance. So he finds Willis and gradualy transforms him into the perfect opposite of himself.
The most amasing is that Jackson is being transformed into a bad, evil guy, while he is seeking for Willis. He kills people to find the one who will save them.
On the other hand, Jackson was realy very week, physicaly I mean, and Willis was realy unbreakable (but he didn't want to admit it). The line with the edges exists, but somebody should reveal it. Or did Jackson created? That's another philosophical question: do we follow our fate or do we create a fate to follow?
Unfortunately, the director failed to present in a proper way that great idea. It cound be an excellent movie...