[UA] Unbreakable (Non-Spoilers with mild Analysis)

[Chad Underkoffler]

No spoilers.

Well, I just saw UNBREAKABLE tonight.

Chad's Two Cents: I liked it a lot. Some very good-- excellent,
in fact-- stuff in the film, but it left me somewhat unsatisfied
at the end.

I agree that it does a great job of showing an extraordinary
person in an ordinary world. There are also strong themes of
heroism and sacrifice. And there are strong personal
relationships.  

All these things make UNBREAKABLE very pertinent for UA. 

There's not that much action-- it's like a comic book version of
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, if you can dig my idiom. That might be a
little unfortunate. Lots of thinking, pondering, talking. If you
can groove on that, well, then you'll like it, I think. It's
really a character study.

I have to say something, though-- in the film, there's a great
scene between Bruce Willis' character and the character's son.
It affected me greatly-- I had a real upwelling of emotion
during it, and a percentage of the audience *laughed*. 

That really bothered me, because it showed I was "reading" the
film in a much different way than they were. I was seeing a
moment of real beauty, and some of the people in the audience
saw it as a joke. Who was right, and does it matter? Probably
not. 

But I think the people and critics who didn't like the movie
were the sort of people who either laughed or felt tremendously
manipulated at the scene that I connected with. It'd be
interesting to figure out.

In summary, at its core, UNBREAKABLE is a story about an
ordinary guy who is quite extraordinary. (Indeed, I feel there
are strong parallels between this Willis character and the
character he played in THE LAST BOY SCOUT, another fave flick o'
mine.)

Later.



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