is M Night Shyamalan more of a hit or a miss for you?
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is M Night Shyamalan more of a hit or a miss for you?
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(Spoilers) I think with the changes they made to the plot, I'm kinda glad they changed the ending so it was clear that the apocalypse had ended, because I was dreading that they would sacrifice someone and then it wouldn't even work. It sounds like in the book they didn't sacrifice someone on purpose and then decided to risk the apocalypse happening, and I think I prefer that ending overall. They could've kept that ending in the movie, but if they rsther wanted to sacrifice Eric I'm glad they changed the ending too. Just my own opinion from a person who got attached to the characters and didn't want them to turn on each other :')
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who was disappointed with the omissions of the film. Wen being the biggest. My gut reaction was cowardice in adapting the story. Now knowing the "great ending" quote, I'm even more disappointed with choices made. Overall I enjoyed the film, and casting was spot on. The opening scene was shot for shot how I imagined that scene playing out. I only wish they played it less safe and stayed true to the tension and ambiguity of the novel.
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the purpose is to spread anti-humanity. 🤮
The worst thing that could happen to this family has already happened, and it happened for nothing. It would be so easy for them to be broken by that, and to become nihilistic and complacent. But instead they refuse to be complicit. They refuse to be the tools of whatever unknowable force it is that perpetrates this cruelty. They reject its terms.
They opt to wither with tenderness rather than live in subservience to an unconscionable force. I do think there is a tiny grain of hope in that, for all its tragedy.
I see where you’re coming from, but in my opinion I’m glad that Wen survived in the movie. If she did get killed like the book, I feel like watching her death on the big screen would have been really hard for me to watch since she is just a little kid. It is very sad to happen in the book, but that’s just a book. Seeing a little kids death on the big screen would be too depressing so I’m glad she lived in the movie
The back and forth seemed very honest like a logical point of view and a “believer” point of view.
It didn’t need a vague ending because we needed to know the sacrifice was valid and worth it.
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Since there was never a point in the film where I didn't believe the intruders, the entire 'are they lying or telling the truth' really fell flat. You're right, there was nowhere near enough effort into making it ambiguous.
I think the point about the apocalypse being so straight forward is interesting because as someone who hasn’t read the book I came away from the movie wishing we could have seen more of the horseman’s struggle with what they were going and their belief in it. We see bits and pieces, like their almost relief when they think they see signs that it’s actually happening, because otherwise they would have just killed someone for nothing. Or when they refuse to go look at the Id because at that point they didn’t want to question it, the idea of being wrong is too horrifying. Especially when they were displayed as such normal people, (the I don’t have a homophobic bone in my body scene was especially funny because it just encapsulated that idea that these people were dropped into this completely unprepared just as the family was) I would have liked to see the movie explore that idea that maybe they indoctrinated each other and the idea of egging each others delusions along, and if it was real or not and the implications of that. It’s why I was kind of disappointed when the planes just started falling from the sky by the 100’s. There was no real way to justify that. The first two times could be easily questioned but then it just erased all that tension.
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