Sunday, July 16, 2006

UNBREAKABLE

Well, its Saturday night and I probably have a billion othe rthings that demands my attention, but out of nowhere I remembered a commercial for a M. Night Shyamalan fil that shows on ABC. So I promptly tuned in at eight o'clock and the movie, Unbreakable, was surprisingly memorable to my comics persona (I'm a huge JLA fan, you didn't know that? Well you do now)

The prologue to the movie was kind of unusual for M. Night Shyamalan (perhaps its on next Saturday?), I waited until his name appeared to actually settle down and watch it. Unbreakable has two main characters: Elijah played by Samuel L. Jackson, an avid comic collector crsed by genetic mutation with wak bones factured easily therefore name Mr. Glass n his youth; David, played by Bruce Willis, is an otherwise ordinary man who was never sick and survived a deadly train crash unscath while all other passengers died. The film proceeded in an archetypical superhero motif. David, gradually aware of his "gift" is relunctant and held back by people he cares about, very much like Peter Parker. While Samuel L. Jackson acts as his "mentor" not so far away from Professor Xavier considering he si also in a wheelchair for the most part of the movie. As Elijah uncovers david as the man of steel and his kryptonite-water, David begin to accept what he is and use his ability to sense people's shady past to the great good (which brings me to a point of confusion, David clearly "saw" a drug dealer pocketing something but when he pat him down, nothing came up??) David arrives at a train terminal sensing a motley of crime, theft, hate-criming, rape, and ultimately murder. He followed the murderer and ends up in a scene that shows his superhuman abilities. The next day, the local newspaper shows a story of unknown hero with a hooded figure that remined me of Batman. With all well and the film finnishing, M. Night Shyamalan throws a shocking curve ball ending in an ironic twist. It turns out Elijah has satged many disasters in search of his superhero, David...and I thought he was Professor X. But it wasn't hard to imagin Samuel L. Jackson in his dark purple trenchcoat to be the evil genius, after all he is Mr. Glass...

Although through a different kind of depiction, Unbreakable is a classic superhero sotry worthy of comic books, the hooded figure in the newspaper drawing is pretty darn close.

posted by Stavanger at 6:08 PM

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