OUR GHOSTS, DEMONS AND M.NIGHT SHYAMALAN !!

Some Hollywood movies are commentaries on the social problems of the American life:

1. The Exorcist: The fowl-mouthed American kids ("f#uk" this and "f#u@k" that)with vicious rebellion against religion and hypocrisies of the adult world (mouthed by demonic possessions) only to be finally calmed by the sacrifices of the polite priests. (The demons possessing the little girl in fact are all adults!!)

2. Silence Of  The Lambs: How would you like to be eaten for lunch or breakfast or worn as a fur coat? The horrible Dr. Lecter reminds us of the everyday sins we commit and forget!

3. Sixth Sense: If the medical establishment and psychiatrists do not believe their patients they will find no relief even in after-life until they repent and make amends is the lesson from this movie (Only if this were true!). Also the movie supports psychic phenomena (sixth sense/esp. etc.) by giving its boy hero the capability of seeing 'dead people'.

Synopsis: M.night brings out unusual emotions in the fast-moving action-packed era of Hollywood movies.The movie starts when a prestigious psychologist in Philadelphia gets shot by an ex-patient in his apartment.The patient who is unhappy at not having been cured of his mental disease by the doctor then shoots himself. Six months later we see this doctor (Bruce Willis) treating a young boy in Philadelphia. The boy claims to see dead people who do not know they are dead. The case is similar to that of the dead patient who shot himself earlier. Meanwhile the doctor is separated from his wife who will not talk to him. After many emotional sessions with the boy he makes the boy comfortable with his visions of dead people. The boy does not feel scared anymore. There are many side stories in the movie. The movie finally ends when the good doctor goes to meet his wife and comes to realize that he himself is dead, he died when the patient shot him at the beginning of the movie. It was his spirit seeking redemption. The last five minutes of the movie are the flashbacks of this realization.

4. UNBREAKABLE: This seems like a comment on the strong black man who sells comics but feels broken and helpless( expressed in his aches and pains ah/ah/ah...) and a compact white man's desire to be superman (he is the only survivor of a train wreck!). That is all I got from the movie.

5. SIGNS: Another M. Night movie. The white church pastor is so scared of the multitude of thin grasshopper like "beings" who originate in the corn fields and vanish with the rains! I was half asleep during the movie and after all the loud music and suspense the rain woke me up. It was time to go home...

6. THE VILLAGE: This is a nice elegant movie from M. Night Shyamalan. There are two intertwined stories in The village.

a.. Each of  the village elders has suffered at the hands of the outside world and  so they form a commune isolated from the rest of the world. This is only revealed towards the end of the movie. However, they use a devious method to keep their kids inside the commune and keep the outsiders outside by dressing up a somewhat handicapped man in a scary dress;

b. A blind girl professes love for another young man in the commune but a jealous half-mad man knives that young man. The rest of the movie is about the brave blind girl's attempt to cross through the haunted forest to the regular world to get medications for her intended husband.

In the theater, the audience heaves a sigh of relief as you see a police car and first signs of modern life as the commune girl steps into the regular world from the paranoia created inside the compound. Once again, the director manages to get decent performances from all of the actors; a welcome departure from the sci-fi , gun-crazy Hollywood!