Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
Maybe--but I'm normally pretty awful at guessing twists, and this one was so obvious to me that I was really hoping I was wrong. And I was partly wrong:The_lurkeR said:I also have to call B*S* on the people who "figured it out from the beginning". There is nothing in the film which telegraphs the end, before Night begins to reveal it. If you happened to guess it, it's nothing other than lucky meta-gaming.
When Ivy was taken to The Shed That We Don't Use to be shown something, I was half-expecting dad to show her a motorcycle .
I do believe the movie would've been better if this had been clear from the beginning, as follows:
The people in the village had to have excellent tools, right? After all, they had no source of metal beyond what they brought with them, so their tools were going to have to last many decades. If there'd been some shots in which we saw that their hammers, their saws, their cooking pots, and so forth had modern names stamped on them; if we'd seen rubberized seals for the water pumps; if we'd seen other incontrovertible signs of modernity, then that would have increased the mystery for me. Instead of thinking, "oh, please, don't let this be set in modern times," I would've been thinking, "This is set in modern times? What the heck's going on here?
The mood was great, the acting was superb, the visuals were breathtaking. The story, IMO, was awful. I credit Shyamalan for doing many things right, but I desperately wish he would team up with a writer who would rein in his worse impulses, who could give him a plausible and non-hokey story to tell.
Daniel