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Mardi, août 10th, 2010 |
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OK…Umm…Uh…OK, just stall words to keep me from getting started. OK, here goes.
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First the negative: “The Happening” just is not happening as a successful film. Did M. Night really think a movie with the wind blowing trees and grasses would be frightening? Or that the addition of music as a character with the wind would be ominous enough? Perhaps it is with Mark Wahlberg that he expected the movie to be scary. After all, Wahlberg is noted for his intense acting and those serious facial contortions. One scene shows a side view of his face all screwed up. All I could think was how deeply creased his forehead would one day be! A scary movie should not allow me to think that!
However, one of the few really scary parts occurred when the greenhouse guy was in the scene. First, he tells us that plants respond to human voices (true, long-time studies have confirmed this) and that they can respond negatively as well–deep foreshadowing! After the close-up of his misaligned facial features, I fully expected this dude to be hit with neurotoxins and go beserk. Didn’t happen. Red herring!
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Another really scary part involved the old woman living in isolation, who revealed herself to be beserk without help of neurotoxins. Maybe that was M Night’s point: Nature needs to help along the deletion of unsavory human beings, especially including Average Joe (the construction site jumpers–it is no telling what they have done to the plant world!!), but also the truly insane (the old woman who wisely chose to live in the safety of isolation).
I’m going to leave the last three months alone. I could tear into the problems there, too.
Now the positive: Some of these comments are just the reverse of my negative ones. For example, the addition of Wahlberg in the film was a plus because of his intensity. He pretty much makes the whole plant thing believable–well, almost believable. I was even convinced his and Alma’s love stopped the neurotoxins. Actually, because of the mystery entwined throughout the story, there is no reason not to think their love stopped the toxins. In other scenes the galloping fear of toxins seemingly increased the plant rampage.
Overcast skies, wind and music, discordance between words and actions, palpable fear, Wahlberg’s panic attack, the Hitchcock-like house and old woman–all lent themselves to an increasing sense of unease to dis-ease. The film does work in some ways.
I leave further arguments to others.
American cities of the northeast are plagued by an apparent terrorist attack in which people become confused then suicidal - leaping off skyscrapers, shooting themselves, impaling themselves with hairpins. As high-school science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his unhappy wife and colleague flee to the country, it becomes evident the threat is more likely environmental. Nature is fighting back, with plants releasing some kind of toxin to defend themselves against the human industrial onslaught…
M. Night Shyamalan executes on this charming premise with a deliberate eye to the sci-fi B-movie, both in style and theme, with lashings of gore, a cheesy score, and expository dialogue that at times sounds more like a textbook. Sadly, however, it doesn’t entirely work. Shyamalan’s no fool. He wouldn’t make a B-movie without a specific intention. So what’s going on here? Is the substance connected to the style? Does Shyamalan want us to go back to the 1950s? Is he trying to tell us that cities are bad? Is he echoing E. F. Schumacher’s cry that “small is beautiful”? Or is this a response to misplaced moral hysteria around 9/11? Falling bodies around 9.00am on a New York Tuesday certainly stir the echoes. Is he saying there are bigger threats to worry about than a few ideologues in planes; that 9/11, though a tragic event for those involved, is ultimately a miniscule blip compared to our disastrous global environmental trajectory? Or is it simply a musing on the fragility of humankind and the paucity of our knowledge? He’d be right on all counts, of course. But his intention is never clear.
As an argument the film isn’t very convincing, and as a piece of entertainment it’s worse. Shyamalan’s core skills as a writer-director seem to have deserted him - there is no suspense, no real drama, no trademark twist, not even any really nice shots (except the chilling iconic beauty of the falling workmen). It offers just a vague kind of discomfort that’s regularly undermined by the near-comic suicide scenes. Shyamalan seems creatively paralysed himself. Still, the film’s not entirely without merit. Its difference to standard summer fare makes it reasonably engaging for much of its short duration, and the wheels only really fall off when Moore and family let the power of love trump the power of self-preservation with a very convenient outcome.
I think Shyamalan’s also a victim of his own success - expectations are incredibly high for anything he does. From a young, first-time writer-director, this might be seen as competent Hollywood fare with an eye to tradition. From Shyamalan, it’s well below par. Wahlberg is probably the strongest element here. He’s regularly undermined by appalling dialogue, but his earnestness is endearing. Knowing where he’s come from, as an actor and a person, to see him playing this kind of character in this kind of movie is nice.
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