Wayward Pines: M. Night Shyamalanana
Shyamalan sees living people. . .but for how long?
M. Night Shyamalan’s movies are basically Twilight Zone episodes — the middling ones that rely on twists or sudden revelations to rock the audience. Having watched a lot of Twilight Zone episodes — the ’80s TV remake whose producers included George R.R. Martin — we immediately saw through Shyamalan’s blockbuster, The Sixth Sense. In the first scene, a deranged student is in Bruce Willis’s house waving a gun, and in the next scene Willis is having lunch with his wife who never looks at him when he speaks to her. In the movie theater, my sister and I looked at each other and said, “He’s dead.”
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