Lady in the Water

M. Night M. Night M. Night, you never cease to amaze me, never! I wanted to see this movie as soon as it came out but being the busy person that I am I wasn’t able to see it until now.

First I want to say that it was well worth the wait. Second I want to say to all those critics who trashed it,

“Haven’t you ever seen an M. Night Shyamalan film!!!!!!!!�

Seriously there has to come a time that film critics will stop judging movies based on college text book film classes and start to judge them accordingly to the vision of the director. Who in this case happens to be M. Night Shyamalan who is in fact my favorite director of all time.

With an M. Night Shyamalan film two things happen, You get what you expected, or you don’t get what you expected. Wait, wait, wait, what am I talking about? You don’t ever get what you expected with an M. Night Shyamalan film. I mean its M. Night Shyamalan for goodness sake.

This man likes to poke fun of and manipulate his audience, his films are his practical jokes, and they are our ….I don’t know how to explain this…

If you were to try and put together a puzzle from let’s say Mattel. Mattel makes a puzzle. You know what a puzzle looks like so you put it together, only when it is done right, it’s all funny and well not right, so you have a completely weird puzzle that doesn’t make sense, yet it does. Because the puzzle not making sense is the puzzle Mattel wanted you to have, It’s like Mattel laughing at you and saying, look at these idiots trying to place something together the same way every time, let’s mix it up.

M. Night Shyamalan kind of does that with his films. He makes a movie, and sits in the back row of the theater and laughs at you while you try to figure him out. Only you can’t. Because he’s crazy awesome like that.

Now I am not saying M. Night Shyamalan Is God, but it does remind me of how we can never figure out God. I like to think about how amazing he is and try to put God in a Box sometimes. Because then I realize how God is way to big for a box, and we can not imagine or even come close to his awesomeness.

When I was little my Sunday school teacher told me that we would never know the answers to some of our questions that we have. But I think that is kind of true and untrue at the same time. I like to think that in heaven we will be able to ask God any question that we want and he will answer it, but his answer will leave more questions. Like if I were to ask God how many colors there were, he would respond by saying “for who’s eyes� and I would say well raccoon’s and he would say “They see more colors then humans� and I would be like let me see thru the eyes of raccoons and when he lets me see thru the eyes of raccoons I would be totally mystified and ask more questions and it would go on for eternity like that., there is a verse in Corinthians that sums this up.

1^st Corinthians 2:9 (MSG)

…No one's ever seen or heard anything like this,
Never so much as imagined anything quite like it—
What God has arranged for those who love him….

I really wish I could go into detail with this movie, but it would spoil it. I know this review doesn’t make sense, maybe it will if you see the movie or maybe I am just crazy and ADD.

However I did not like everything about this film. I thought you had two great actors (Paul Giomatti and Bryce Howard) surrounded by a smorgasbord of terrible ones (not including M. Night) that really took away from the drama of the film. I mean some of the actors were really terrible, I thought they won a walk on role from a cereal box contest or something. However acting aside, you should really go and see it. Then e-mail me if you still wonder why I think this movie is amazing.

Oh and M. Night if you are ever in Hampton Roads, VA I know a great place for coffee.

Insert “ What in God’s Creation Are you talking about� Comments here…

--Marcus