{"id":30173,"date":"2019-01-18T20:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T01:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30173"},"modified":"2019-01-18T20:30:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T01:30:53","slug":"glass-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/18\/glass-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Glass (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Night Shyamalan shocked just about everyone when at the end of \u201cSplit\u201d his wonderful thriller about a psycho with multiple personalities, he introduced the reveal that we were watching a secret sequel to \u201cUnbreakable\u201d the whole time. \u201cGlass\u201d is the third film in the trilogy of films that break down superhero tropes, the superhero genre, and the mythology of superheroes as a whole. Even with Shyamalan shocking people with \u201cSplit\u201d and still being one of the first of his ilk to break apart the superhero mythology with \u201cUnbreakable,\u201d his last film in the series, \u201cGlass,\u201d promises to polarize just about everyone.<\/p>\n

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Set months after the events of \u201cSplit,\u201d David Dunn is working as a vigilante known as \u201cThe Overseer\u201d stopping criminals and petty thugs. When he and his son Joseph track down \u201cThe Horde,\u201d they engage in a fight that drops them in to the hands of a psychiatrist known as Dr. Ellie Staple. Being captured and seized by her, she knows their weakness and decides to prove to them that they are delusional and have merely imagined all of their abilities due to trauma and tragedy. Now with Mr. Glass planning to break out, he allies himself with \u201cThe Horde.\u201d Now it\u2019s up to David Dunn, with the help of Joseph, and \u201cThe Horde\u2019s\u201d last victim Casey, to stop them before they cause a catastrophe in a local high rise.<\/p>\n

\u201cGlass\u201d is going to be like normal M. Night films, where it will polarize many genre fans, and I can see why. M. Night doesn\u2019t completely drop us in to an action packed reunion of the characters from his trilogy. Instead much of \u201cGlass\u201d is a measured exploration of the psychoses of these three adversaries, and how they perceive themselves. \u201cGlass\u201d is very much drawn as a meta superhero film that picks apart the superhero mythology while adhering to much of what give the tales so much substance. M. Night uses this final film to explore the idea of how everyone has a hidden magic within them that make them extraordinary, and some of us may never truly find where it lies.<\/p>\n

All the while he also examines the idea of fate and destiny, and jumps back and forth on the themes of whether Mr. Glass, The Horde, and The Overseer are merely victims of coincidence, or are being placed around by a hidden force on some unseen chess board. Where \u201cGlass\u201d ultimately falls apart is in the notion that perhaps these three men just\u2026 imagined or exaggerated everything they\u2019ve seen and done. This would all be very much a reasonable and clever attempt at a plot twist if we knew these individuals through flashbacks and \u201cSplit\u201d and \u201cUnbreakable\u201d never existed. But we\u2019ve seen their movies, we know what they\u2019ve done, and understand their powers. It\u2019s never quite clear what Shyamalan is trying to accomplish by including this sudden turn in the narrative where Dr. Staple is eagerly trying to convince these characters, and the audience, that maybe we didn\u2019t see what we thought we did the entire time.<\/p>\n

Maybe it was all just\u2014I don\u2019t know\u2014delusions that they transmitted to the audience? In either case, the plot element just never lands, and Shyamalan can never quite convince us that it was an angle worth visiting, even in the final moments of the film. That said, \u201cGlass\u201d is a superb finisher to the \u201cUnbreakable\u201d storyline where just about everyone are able to flourish with fantastic performances from the collective cast. Especially from McAvoy and Paulson, both of whom approach the film with immense dramatic weight and intensity. It also hints at a grander storyline that\u2019s yet to be told. \u201cGlass\u201d is a satisfying superhero drama, and a great reunion of the cast of two of Shyamalan\u2019s best films. I hope we get to delve so much deeper in to this universe again someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Night Shyamalan shocked just about everyone when at the end of \u201cSplit\u201d his wonderful thriller about a psycho with multiple personalities, he introduced the reveal that we were watching a secret sequel to \u201cUnbreakable\u201d the whole time. \u201cGlass\u201d is the third film in the trilogy of films that break down superhero tropes, the superhero genre, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,240,302,349,703,906,922,1087],"class_list":["post-30173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-fantasy","tag-mystery","tag-science-fiction","tag-sequel","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30173","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30175,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30173\/revisions\/30175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}