Seriously, there has to come a time when film critics stop judging movies based on college text books and start judging them according to the vision of the director. Who, in this case, happens to be M. Night Shyamalan--my favorite director of all time.

In an M. Night Shyamalan film, two things happen: you get what you expect or you don't get what you expect. Wait, wait, wait, what am I talking about? You never get what you expect with an M. Night Shyamalan film. I mean, it's M. Night Shyamalan for goodness sake. He pokes fun at and manipulates his audience; his films are his practical jokes, or puzzles that don't quite make sense...

Let's say Mattel makes a puzzle. You put it together and it doesn't look right. So it doesn't make sense to you, but it makes perfect sense to Mattel because they made the puzzle that way. Perhaps they're 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 does that with his films. He makes a movie, and sits in the back row of the theater and laughs while you try to figure it out. Only you can't. Because he's crazy awesome like that.

Now I am not saying that M. Night Shyamalan Is like God, but it does remind me of how we can never figure out God. I like to think about how amazing God is and even try to put him in a box sometimes. Because then I realize that God is way too 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. I think that is true and untrue at the same time. I like to think that in heaven we will be able to ask God any question 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 whose eyes?" and I would say, "Well, a raccoon's.." and he would say, "They see more colors then humans," and I would say, "Let me see through the eye of a raccoon," and when he lets me 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. 1st 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 did not like everything about it, though. I thought it had two great actors (Paul Giomatti and Bryce Howard) surrounded by a smorgasbord of terrible ones (not including M. Night) that took away from the drama. Acting aside, you should really 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, Virginia, I know a great place for coffee.