Chamaran's preaching style in the new era

Aaliyah 2021-12-13 08:01:11

M. Night Shyamalan (M. Night Shyamalan) has always been a different kind of director in Hollywood genre films. This British Indian of Indian descent seems to be a paradox. He is in Hollywood, using Hollywood actors, making Hollywood genres, using Hollywood-style propaganda, and earning Hollywood-style box office. As a result, what you see before your eyes is exuding a strong philosophy and even close to preaching. The strange image of the concept, the magic is that audiences and film critics all over the world seem to buy his account!

Similarly, "Lady In The Water" achieved good box office and some senior people praised it, but it still can't stop its weirdness. You can say that this is a piece of rubbish, full of down-to-earth characters, tacky, orgasmic fantasy, neurotic self-righteous logic, unconvincing inferior fairy tales and poor visual effects, and even the director himself Going shirtless to play the narcissistic complex of a philosophical prophet, and then as if seeing a pile of shit, turning around with a snort, I would never say that you have no taste, no thoughts, and do not understand deep and philosophical according to the usual point of view; you can also say This is an apocalypse, full of symbolism, philosophical reflections and pious beliefs. It awakens people's primitive code-like fantasy of nature, mystery and even evil. It is a concentrated expression of the director's worldview and values, and it is the injury of a failure and sinking. The person rediscovered the elixir of faith and power, and then it seemed like seeing Christ reappearing and worshiping on the ground. I would never say that you pretend to be high-minded, blindly credulous, and do not know how to behave like the usual view.

In fact, this movie feels so weird to me.

I would also like to talk about the logic of M. Knight Chamaran that I summarized. He combined his own admiration for the mysterious and unknown, mixed with Western religions and Eastern legends, and even added alien theory. The elements related to the mysterious event are boiled and stewed together in a pot, combined with my usual philosophy of salvation, faith and sacrifice, as MSG, to make a stew feast. In chronological order, starting with the location of his story and the scope of the main people involved, his ambitions are gradually escalating. "The Sixth Sense" is the living environment of the protagonist Bruce Willis alone and by himself, "Unbreakable" Expanding to Bruce and Samuel Jackson, "Signs" is Mel Gibson, his brother and his children. The location of the incident has also become a closed farm, which is expanding geographically. "The Village" focuses on the entire closure. In this small town, the main roles that are struggling with ideological struggles have also increased, and the area has also expanded to a large village. By the time of "Lady In The Water", this dormitory-like apartment had to be hundreds of people. The number of people, and the role involved with the heroine has to be ten people. So, in fact, since I watched "The Village", I was waiting to see when he made a movie. It should be said that the people of the world or the people of the universe believed his thoughts without doubt. I would not be surprised at all.

The most manifestation is that he himself went into battle to play the role of writing a "cooking book" that would influence future leaders to change the world, but would be like the martyrdom of Christ. I have to think about it, he must expect that in the next N years, a child will watch his movie, and his thoughts will change dramatically, and then lead mankind to a higher level... This kind of strong narcissism is really difficult. accept.

He also likes down-to-earth characters, not prolific at the bottom, but down-to-earth immigrants, those with the pain of the past that cannot be resolved, those who close themselves, escape from reality, and cannot integrate with other people living on the margins. And these people will truly receive "spiritual enlightenment", and infinitely expand their seemingly useless expertise in modern society, and turn them into some sacred ability. They are pure and pious, and will easily believe this revelation, and their past pains will be perfectly redeemed after being touched by God on their foreheads. This is particularly serious in "Lady In The Water". Not all such people live in the collective apartment with swimming pool standing in the wilderness. Just when arranging the healers, guards, and witnesses, I thought they were playing an upgraded RPG game...This is why I said he was more like a "stew chef".

He was still mocking the film critic, the new tenant who was pretending to be forced to watch a boring movie by his work, unable to hold a word, said a pair of misguided judgments, and then was eaten by the monster. Looking back and summarizing all kinds of horror movies, I hope I can run away like a small character. When I turn around, there are no bones left. It really satirizes the so-called film critics who stand and talk.

I still don’t like him, because the philosophies he brought are too religious, too religious, too single, to the point of boring and naive and illogical, but it does not prevent me from admiring him. He insisted on filming and preaching. Maybe it can be a good way of preaching for new religions in the future.

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  • Gracie 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    I don't know what you're talking about,

  • Carroll 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    I started watching the movie after reading the comments, so I don't have any hope, yes, I'm watching, the male lead isn't very good, so let's not say anything else, there's nothing to stop me , it should be classified as a bad movie, although it is not very bad~

Lady in the Water quotes

  • Mrs. Bell: My God, you have an animal's eyes.

  • Goatee Smoker: Baby's on the half tip!