SIGNS

===SIGNS===
 Tushar K Shukla
There are good movies,and there are bad movies.And Signs is one of the
former ones.The way the director makes his presence felt through the
haunting shots all through the movie is highly impressive.A lonely
farmhouse, a troubled family, a man of disillusioned morals. The movie
talks of inhibitions of the human psyche pitched against the power of the
human endeavor. Thrown against the backdrop of a hostile unpredictable
fear of the alien abductors, the movie carves out the basic human tenacity
to gather ones courage and stand up against all evil. The movie scares and
scares well. But the overpowering undertone is the movie's association and
depiction of gross human emotions like faith, belief, pretence, fear,
love, anger, fury and inertia. In his family, everyone is troubled,
everyone has a past, including the ET-savvy kid whose warnings against the
alien hoax hold salt in the end. How a simple reaction to a hoax
transforms majorly into a perpetual intimidating truth is the crux of the
movie. Mel Gibson delivers a powerhouse performance with the
vulnerabilities of a former reverent who no longer believes in miracles,
he believes every man on earth is on his own, there ain't no miracles in
the world anymore for him and that is what he prescribes too for his
family. Gibson's face and eyes are a playground of varying colors in the
plot. His eyes carry the elemental human fear against the dark powers that
pose a threat to our loved ones. The tendency to keep up one with the ones
we love and care for to the extent that we are ready to give up everything
that that we hold dear, is depicted well, very well in the movie. All the
elements are shown in a demanding light with every element of a great
cinema skillfully strewn into one encompassing theme that holds substance,
quality and art equally well.