The Happening
Jun. 17th, 2008 09:14 pmI was going to write a post about The Happening, in which I said it was the weakest of Shyamalan's films, and that it lacked his characteristic depth, but I find myself in the strange position of having to retract my statement that I have not yet made. To put it more simply, I have changed my mind about the film. Josh Sikora's brilliant post defending The Happening quite changed my mind, through his arguments about the sublety of the movie, and the subtext, which I must confess that I dismissed. The movie is not to my taste, that is to say, I do not particularly like it, even though I admit that it is a good film, perhaps a great film. I may not like a work of art or wish to hang a copy of a painting on my wall while still recognizing that it is a great work of art. So, if you like thrillers, or if you are a fan of Shyamalan's films (Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable, The Village, Lady in the Water), I would encourage you to think about seeing the movie because it is quite worth seeing, and without going into details that would give anything away, it is not as simple a movie as it might seem.