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By Any Means (2013)
Don't say I didn't warn you.
I love By Any Means!! Not sure what happened with the first episode.. it seemed a bit all over the place and the script wasn't very good, but all the other episodes were great and kept getting better!!! I better see a second season and Charlie better be back or there will be hell to pay!!
I think a lot could be explored on this show in the script to do with the lines between "good" and "evil", justice, the abuse of power and authority, and so many other things. I think it could get really interesting! Would love to see them go off in a Breaking Bad direction and just get crazy with it. Somehow I can imagine this show could go in a really edgy direction if they wanted to take it there. Way edgier than it is now.
I'm in love with all the main characters, they're wonderful. Lots of talent there!!! Though I'd like for the script to allow for more depth of character development.
It's a lot better than the American show Leverage, which is similar, and I rather like that show!
There is A LOT of potential here. So like I said, I better get to see a lot more than a mere pitiful six episodes, or there will be hell to pay. I will come after whoever is responsible, and you will not have your BAM team to save you. ;-)
Now that it's been cancelled, don't say I didn't warn you!
Lady in the Water (2006)
Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.
If you don't understand this film or what it is about or think it's illogical, let me explain.. This film is about finding wonder and magick in the ordinary. It is also about "purpose". Obviously, being able to find wonder in the ordinary is a source of purpose and hope. It is what makes a child innocent, pure, and childlike and what makes a person feel alive.
There are hints all throughout the movie that clearly explain so many of it's meanings.. why it confused people I have no idea.
Even the part where the Asian girl tells Heep he has to act innocent and like a child to win the trust of her mother so that her mother will tell him the story is a hint.
Reading prophecy from the cereal boxes was not absurd either. Again, it was about finding wonder and the unordinary in the ordinary.. about the power of the imagination to heal and to create.
In most fantasy movies mages use crystal balls to scry prophecy and the future, but who says children cannot use cereal boxes? Both are just tools that set the imagination free. Really, it doesn't matter what tool you use. That's why it doesn't matter this is taking place in an apartment building in the most unlikely of places to the most unlikely people.
And why do they believe? She obviously has magnetic power over them. The writer only needed to be introduced to her for her to stimulate her "awakening" in him. That was all. Then she was ready to go home. They didn't even have to talk. Heep's stuttering mysteriously stopped anytime he was simply in her presence. Yes, she seemed ordinary, but she clearly wasn't. Why is it so hard to imagine this effect would not spread to the other residents? Water faeries, in case you do not know, are known for their magnetic, irresistible power to seduce. Have you never heard of the evil sirens that lure sailors to their deaths with sweet songs? This film could be about many things of course and everything is subjective, but these are just a few of the meanings I saw in it. This film seemed a touch inspired by the classic Neverending Story by Michael Ende. I am very curious if Night is familiar with Ende's work. Certainly, Indians are more spiritual and their religious literature is littered with talk of nymphs, fae, and spirit beings of all kinds so they are more spiritually minded and open I guess than most westerners. His Indian background is becoming very evident to me the more of his movies I see.
Night Shyamalan is good and he does not at all deserve all the hatred he is getting. So many worse movies come out constantly and even if you think these movies aren't like Sixth Sense or don't understand them, they're still more imaginative and creative than most the drivel that comes out of Hollywood. You could hardly honestly call any of his movies bad in comparison to most others, so why is everyone picking on him? Because you think he's egotistical for starring in his own movies? xD What about you for acting like such a know it all and getting so offended by that? That's not just a tad bit egotistical? As if all these critics complaining and attacking him do not have egos. xD I do think he's simply creating unique art more these days and using his artistic license because true artists desire to experiment and not submit to convention, but that's where the critics always try to come in and destroy someone's creative spirit and act like they know it all when what do they really ever know? Their opinions are no better than anyone else's and everyone sees something different when they look at something. Perception is subjective and it always will be. You can't put walls and chains around the act of creation as so many try to do. So many have lost their true purpose, are only acting out a caricature of what they think others want them to be, and this is why.. the critic is more than the destroyer of stories.. he is the destroyer of dreams. I doubt most caught on to the even deeper meaning of the critic character in this movie.. he could represent not only the authoritarian literary and film critic, but the jaded cynical scientific and tyrannical materialist.. the jaded cynical pessimist.. the cynical dogmatist that comes in all shapes and sizes.. In killing the critic of the story, MSN was restoring hope and wonder to what has become the lifeless and mundane and hopeless world of mankind. Ponder that. He is the messiah of his own story, and I see nothing wrong or egotistical in that. We are all Gods of our own stories. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and so is art.
This movie takes a bit of imagination to enjoy. Set your imagination free, the way children tend to do, and maybe you'll see it clearly. Then maybe after watching it you'll be rewarded with that childlike sense of wonder again for a moment that has become such a fleeting feeling in your stale and corrupted cynical adult life.
Movies like this don't come along often. MNS is deep. Way too deep for most to understand apparently. People think he's insulting their intelligence when actually he's trying not to. :-/ But you know it's a bad argument when someone has to resort to character attacks and accusations that a person is "egotistical" to try to prove their point.
Thank you M. Night, for being true to your art and not selling out for the sake of pleasing others. I understand what he means by pain because it is painful to try to do or think or create something unique in a world of soulless conformists.