{"id":13622,"date":"2005-08-10T16:35:40","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T20:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=13622"},"modified":"2005-08-10T16:35:40","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T20:35:40","slug":"unbreakable-2000-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/10\/unbreakable-2000-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbreakable (2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is, to put it plainly, my current favorite film of all time.<\/p>\n

Let me count the ways:<\/p>\n

Cinematography. It\u2019s experimental without being art kitschy. If there\u2019s one thing that M. Night seems to get, it\u2019s a good director of photography. The man knows how to frame a scene. A lot of that, I assume, is just like writing a book. Practice. And M. Night, judging from the early age at which he started making films, has a lot of practice. There are a number of angles in this film that just stick with you. The scene in the train from the perspective of the child. The scene from above the weights, giving the audience weight on the main character. The scene in the rapist\u2019s home where you see the rapist suddenly appear. Willis in frame in his Security Outfit, as superhero as a superhero movie gets.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s the argument, that\u2019s why I love this film. It\u2019s a comic book movie that you don\u2019t know is a comic book movie until the last ten seconds, and at that point, it is simply incredible, with all the set-up. Writing books, it\u2019s hard to clock me with a plot that takes me by surprise. This did. People complain that it\u2019s a repeat of the Sixth Sense. It is, in terms of surprise. I don\u2019t care. I like it. He can make a hundred as far as I\u2019m concerned\u2026like Kevin Smith. He does one thing incredibly, sticking to it is wise.<\/p>\n

The acting. This is Willis\u2019 finest moment, as far as I\u2019m concerned. He\u2019s helpless, but incredibly strong on the inside. Robin Wright Penn plays the quintessential hurting woman, but she manages not to make it bitchy, as it so often comes off. And the boy, the boy is just incredible for one so young. And Samuel L. Jackson? Well, let me put it this way. He shows you how an evil man can be almost good. I\u2019d choose him for Lex Luthor, myself, if it made character sense. He\u2019s pitiable, in that he can\u2019t help what he is, but he\u2019s also just evil, pure evil, killing thousands in an attempt to do good. And you can see that he\u2019s done it, and would do it again, in his eyes, all in some twisted attempt to do good<\/p>\n

The story. A simple baiting thriller, we\u2019ve seen it a hundred times, but with the added benefit that you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen after the first thirty seconds. You go into act five not knowing who will live, who will die, and who the villain is. This is incredibly hard to achieve with me. This film does it.<\/p>\n

This film does the quintessential trifecta. It makes me laugh. It makes me cry. And it changed my life.<\/p>\n

If you want a good comic movie, if you want a good suspense movie, if you want a good movie-movie, watch Unbreakable, the finest work on celluloid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is, to put it plainly, my current favorite film of all time. Let me count the ways: Cinematography. It\u2019s experimental without being art kitschy. If there\u2019s one thing that M. Night seems to get, it\u2019s a good director of photography. The man knows how to frame a scene. A lot of that, I assume, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[164,240,302,349,618,889,1004,1008,1134],"class_list":["post-13622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-bruce-willis","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-fantasy","tag-m-night-shyamalan","tag-samuel-l-jackson","tag-superhero","tag-supernatural","tag-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}