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I saw "Lady In The Water" & I loved it & I'm frustrated that everyone else hated/is going to hate it & here's why:
"But then "Lady in the Water" takes a huge amount of suspension of disbelief in a wide variety of areas. You have to give in to Shyamalan's world to be consumed by it.
These days, movie fans have grown accustomed to being force-fed a film's reality, to having it hammered home from first loud frame to last.
"Lady in the Water" offers more subtle submersion, a baptism of soulful quirks and daringly sweet imagination.
No, it's not your typical summer blockbuster. It is instead blessed if imperfect relief. Say amen."
-Tom Long, Detroit News
I loved this movie. It's the first film that moved me to tears afterwards in desperate need of a situation like this to occur: for someone to come down & spark a chain of events that will fix things & save the world. All the superhero movies make money off of the fantastical idea that super-someone could come & fix everything, "Lady In The Water" makes you not only believe it could happen, but believe that it must. It's a beautiful imaginative film by, I venture to say, our most wrongly advertised & underappreciated filmmaker.
No, Critics don't like this movie because it asks a little of it's audience, or, it doesn't feed to the pointless time consuming explanation & character denial. These characters have faith, which makes it very special. And maybe critics don't like it because a cynist critic character could be considered one of the antagonist & is killed off towards the end of the film.
Maybe. Some critics say they didn't get it. Which makes me hurt for them. The fact that most of America won't be able to go into this film & be told a fantastical bedtime story & be immersed in it makes me worry for the world even more than I already have.
The rest of Tom Longs review is very good. He's pretty much the only reviewer I've read that seemed to have understood in the way Shyamalan intended.
My EW magazine with the stars of "Pirates 2" claims that this is Shyamalan's last opportunity to "sink or swim" or to gain public acclaim for his films. If this is the film that loses it for him, which it seems it will be... oh the irony.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060721/OPINION03/607210400/1034/ENT02