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UNBREAKABLE
M. Night Shyamalan's best film ,after "THE SIXTH SENSE".
Shyamalan casted Bruce Willis as the comic-book hero(his best choice) and Samuel L. Jackson as the villain :Mr.Glass. This film is touching, one of the greatest ,no doubt about it. It was awesome. M.Night Shyamalan is one of the best directors.
This film will be mentioned in future years and will be regarded as a classic.
Unshakable
M Night Shyamalan is one of those directors who truly has a signature style. When he switches up actors, a cinematographer, and an editor, he still manages to make his films come across as a Shyamalan film. Unbreakable is no exception. Using the likes of Bruce Willis for a second time, but this time employing a practically new film crew, Night creates a world that seems to exist within our world, but still manages to make his own. Beginning with a few statistics on Comic Books, conveying the mainstream effect the fictional books have made on our society, Unbreakable sets out to take the super-hero myth and make it somewhat of possible phenomena. The thing that sets Unbreakable apart from all the other comic book movies, is that it attempts take itself seriously, and not get wrapped up in all that CGI, or spandex.
Instead of punctuating his film with shocks, Shyamalan challenges moviegoers to pay attention and rewards them with a rich, contemplative tale about a common man named David Dunn (Bruce Willis), who must learn if the uncommon gift he possesses is a blessing or a burden.
Dunn, a middle-aged security guard with an unstable personal life, is the sole survivor of a train crash outside of Philadelphia. While all of his fellow passengers were somehow killed by the sheer impact of a derailed train, Dunn somehow emerged from the wreckage unscathed, a modern miracle that attracts the attention of Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), an art dealer whose Limited Edition gallery is a pantheon of legendary comic book superheroes. Despite his knife-like voice and piercing eyes, Price is actually as fragile as an egg; he suffers from a genetic condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta that has made his bones extremely easy to shatter.
"We are on the same curve, only on opposite ends," Price explains to Dunn, who isn't comfortable being thought of as a real-life Superman, even though the accident forces him to realize he can't remember the last time he took a sick day.
Willis and Jackson were previously teamed in the overblown "Die Hard with a Vengeance," which was too busy setting up explosions to allow the duo much time to work together. "Unbreakable," however, is entirely dependent on the relationship between Dunn and Price, as Shyamalan uses the vastly different circumstances of the two men to explore the question of what constitutes a hero. Price has lived nearly 40 years despite his body; Dunn has survived only because of his.
Working with Shyamalan first in "The Sixth Sense" and again here is smart and very welcome move by Willis. Instead of relying on his sly smile and cool posturing as he has in so many of his recent movies, Willis has reinvented himself under Shyamalan's direction as a quiet, focused performer who lets the viewer see the character's inner workings. His scenes with Robin Wright-Penn, who plays his emotionally distant wife, are particularly affecting.
Outfitted in a long leather coat that glimmers like liquid metal in the sun, Jackson's Price confidently dances on the thin line between attentiveness and obsession, and while his tone is often imposing, there's a faintness in his face that reveals all of Price's vulnerabilities.
Any thriller with an ounce of intelligence tends to be blandly praised as being "Hitchcockian," but Shyamalan's influence apparently comes from a different source. Hitchcock never put much stock in the extraordinary or the supernatural.
Much of "Unbreakable" is drenched in pale blues and grays, a constant reminder of Dunn's fear of water, and lack of passion that he has for in his own life; Dunn and the rest of the characters are often silhouetted against grim slate skies that tease them with the threat of rain; Dunn's son Joseph (Spencer Treat Clark) has a scratched face and piercing eyes; the clatter of Price's awkward footsteps sometimes sounds like something brittle snapping. As Dunn becomes more enlightened, so do the colors around him. From the very first scene of "Unbreakable," Shyamalan grabs us, not with noise and flashy fanfare, but with silence and intensity.
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