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Unbreakable,
my second
offering to
you this month
also has a
simple premise
– if there
are people in
the world with
bones so
brittle they
can shatter
merely on
contact with a
chair or a
light fall,
why should
there not be
people at the
other extreme
who are not
affected by
illness or
accident
?
These
survivors
could easily
provide the
race memory of
super-heros.
Intriguing
idea I think
you’ll
agree. Bruce
Willis plays
David Dunn,
sole survivor
of a horrific
train crash
who comes to
realise his
strange
potential
through the
agency of
Elijah Price,
a victim of
brittle bone
disease played
by Samuel L.
Jackson. It is
Elijah’s
fixation with
comic books
and comic art
that leads him
to his strange
hypothesis
about Dunn.
There are some
great moments
in the film,
particularly
when Dunn’s
young son,
played by
Spencer Treat
Clark, eggs
his dad on to
load more and
more weights
onto his dumbbells, just
to see how
much he can
lift. However,
where
Crouching
Tiger, Hidden
Dragon uses
shooting to
enhance the
story line and
draw you
further into
the world of
the film,
Unbreakable tries
to use
shots to draw
out the
emotion of the
characters.
But it is far
too heavy
handed and
what you
actually end
up with is
slight
depression
coupled with
an aching bum,
because this
film is too
long for
it’s subject
material.
There are far
too many shots
of Bruce
looking moody
in the rain,
at the game,
in his house,
in bed, out of
bed.
Shyamalan
had a lot to
live up to
after the
brilliance of
both story and
filming in
Sixth Sense so
perhaps I
should be more
lenient and I
challenge you
to figure out
the twist at
the end – if
you aren’t a
comic book
fan. But if I
had to
recommend one
over the other
it would
definitely be
Crouching
Tiger Hidden
Dragon.
But
as always
it’s up to
you.
Katie
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