Unbreakable
Last night, hunnybunch and I watched "Unbreakable," a 2000 film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and starring Bruce Willis. Shyamalan's films bring you into a world that is similar to our real-life world, with some moments that are sharper than others. Usually the sharpness or clearness indicates that something really weird or scary is about to happen.
This film opened with Bruce Willis's character sitting in a train, with lots of pain and sadness on his face. He tries to pick up a young woman who gets creeped out by his perceived neediness, and then he almost cries. It turns out that his whole adult life has been kind of gray and depressed, because he's not doing what he is supposed to be doing. He has walked away from two different accidents that should have killed him, and he has superpowers. Samuel L. Jackson plays this artsy intellectual who is also a comic book guy who gets injured practically every time he thinks about moving. He discovers Bruce Willis's character and they have an interesting series of interactions.
The movie is really beautiful, and it is neat to see Bruce Willis actually act here and there. The ending, however, is really quite off. He has tested his superpowers, but he ends up going to the police to have the bad guy arrested. Interesting.
One more thing, I found the wife to be utterly uninteresting, which is odd, since when I was a teenager I was totally in love with Robin Wright Penn. Maybe she looks different now? It was also a crappy character, because the movie was about a man, and in part about him and his son, but the woman was really more like a tertiary character.
posted by mahtin @ 4:05 PM
