America looks better interlaced
I think this was my brother’s favorite film that I’ve shown him (stayed off his phone for ~70% of the film.)
Art as violent obsession, fatherhood as salvation.
In this recent run of deeply personal films, Shyamalan lays bare his anxieties and insecurities as an artist and a parent, painstakingly sculpting them in time, light, and narrative to be received by the ever fickle audience. He is no fool. He knows that we come, popcorn and Coke-laden, discussing whether we think there will be a big "twist" or a fun director cameo while hearing fragments of others' speculation before the lights…
Francis Ford Coppola's F. W. Murnau's Abel Gance's Richard Kelly's Lilly & Lana Wachowski's The Boy and The Heron - A Fable: The Movie