There’s a new M. Night Shyamalan movie opening this coming weekend, but you’ll have to wait a couple more days to hear how it is.
Trap, starring Josh Hartnett as … well, let’s say less than the trailer does, is not screening at all for the press in advance of its release on Friday. Shyamalan still divides critics. The reviews for his 2021 film Old, for example, were rather evenly, ahem, split between positive and negative. So it’s possible the studio is trying to delay the inevitable pans. On the other hand, maybe it’s just closely guarding the secrets of Trap. This is a Shyamalan movie, after all.
Recommended Videos There are actually two twists in The Village. Is there any point in protecting them at this point? If you’re reading this article, there’s a good chance you know what Shyamalan was hiding, the secrets that turned his audience into incensed hecklers.
OK, but here’s the real twist: The Village is one of Shyamalan’s best movies — a sad, rather lovely fairy tale about a civilization pressing against its self-imposed boundaries. Back in 2004, on first viewing, the film felt like the narrative equivalent of a sucker punch. “The whole enterprise is a shaggy dog story, and in a way, it is all secrets,” Roger Ebert witheringly wrote in his one-star review.
There are some fabulously tense sequences in The Village, which remains suspenseful in the micro sense even when you know the trajectory of the macro. But the film is ultimately less a thriller than a kind of Twilight Zone melodrama, like Shyamalan’s version of an Edith Wharton novel, where characters maneuver around their feelings and are hemmed in by the constrictions of social propriety.
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